(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia has reduced the number of its strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities, but is attacking civilian infrastructure instead.
Russia and Ukraine agreed last month to a U.S.-brokered, 30-day moratorium on military strikes against energy infrastructure, but both sides have frequently accused each other since of violating it.
Zelenskiy told a press conference in Kyiv that in total, Russia was launching the same number of missiles and drones at Ukraine as before that ceasefire.
“They reduced their strikes on energy, that’s a fact,” Zelenskiy said.
“But I wanted us to pay attention to this – Russia did not reduce the number of strikes, that was the strategy … by reducing (strikes on) energy, they are hitting other civilian infrastructure.”
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and now holds just under 20% of its neighbour’s territory.
(Reporting by Anastasiia Malenko; writing by Max Hunder; editing by Mark Heinrich)
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