Ukraine, US Spell Out Terms for Energy Truce at Odds with Russia’s Proposal

Ukraine and the US have agreed on a list of energy facilities that Russia shouldn’t target as part of a partial ceasefire, though their ideas differ from those proposed by Moscow, Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said.

Last week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv has compiled a list of civilian and infrastructure sites that must not be targeted and has shared it with its US partners as part of the partial ceasefire that US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were supposed to have agreed on.

In response to a request from European Truth, the Ministry stated that Kyiv’s list was coordinated with the White House and that Washington was fully aware of Kyiv’s demands.

“Ukraine has submitted and coordinated with the American side the classification of all energy infrastructure facilities under an agreement to halt mutual strikes. This includes the electricity sector, oil and gas complexes, nuclear and coal industries, and power equipment production,” the ministry’s press service said.

However, Russia has allegedly reached a separate agreement with the US and proposed a different set of sites. It does not include Ukraine’s oil and gas production facilities – key targets of recent Russian attacks, the ministry said.

Zelensky stated that the ceasefire on energy strikes began only on March 25, following the two-day-long negotiations marathon in Riyadh, where Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow had seemed to have agreed to ensure safe navigation and avoid using force in the Black Sea.

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However, the Kremlin later outlined that Moscow would only agree to safe navigation in the Black Sea if certain sanctions against Russia were relieved.

Ukraine’s defense minister, Rustem Umerov, confirmed that Kyiv agreed to a Black Sea ceasefire in exchange for a promise that neither side would attack each other’s energy sites.

The Kremlin and Russia’s Defense Ministry said a temporary halt on attacks against energy facilities had been in place since March 18, when Trump and Putin had reached an agreement. However, the drone assaults in Ukraine have even intensified since then, with dozens of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) targeting residential areas and killing civilians across the country.