Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Vladimir Putin of breaking a promise made during talks with Donald Trump to halt attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
“After Putin’s conversation with the US President Donald Trump, where Putin said he was supposedly giving an order stopping strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, there were 150 drones overnight, targeting energy infrastructure among other things.
"There were strikes against transport. Two hospitals were unfortunately hit. In other words, Putin’s words are very much at odds with reality,” Zelensky said at a news conference in Finland with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb.
Russia's defence ministry has accused Ukraine of attempting to disrupt Russian-US peace talks by targeting an oil storage facility in Krasnodar, a territory in southern Russia.
In a statement reported by the RIA Novosti news agency, the ministry said Ukraine used three drones against the facility involved in pumping oil via the Caspian pipeline.
“Such actions by the Kyiv regime are a deliberate provocation aimed at disrupting Trump’s peace initiatives,” the ministry said.
It added that Russian forces had shot down seven of its drones aimed at energy facilities in Ukraine’s Mykolayiv region after receiving Putin’s order to pause attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Putin rejected a full ceasefire during a phone call with Trump on Tuesday; Zelensky says he'll speak to the US president later to learn details about the call.