President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Russian Security Council on April 1, which he began by his asking Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minister Andrey Belousov for a status report on where things stood on the moratorium on strikes against energy facilities, agreed to with the United States and Ukraine, and on progress in normalization of Russian-American relations. Lavrov spoke to the press after the meeting and said:
“Belousov informed that the moratorium is not being observed, that Russian energy facilities are attacked all the time, with a pause of maybe one or two days, and listed all facilities targeted by Ukrainian drones over the period, including the past night. I continued in that same vein.”
Lavrov added that Russia has sent the list of violations to United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and to its representatives at the UN and the OSCE “so that they can present concrete evidence about what the word of the current Ukrainian authorities is worth, if you can call them authorities at all.” He also said that Moscow is “one hundred percent” compliant with the moratorium.
