The Kremlin on Friday, said the 30-day moratorium on striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin has “expired”;.
Russia had announced the truce on March 18 after a call between Putin and US President, Donald Trump.
Both Russia and Ukraine had accused each other of repeatedly breaking it.
“The month has indeed expired,”; spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a briefing call.
“As of this time, there have been no other instructions from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, President Putin.”;
The short-lived moratorium was one of the few commitments Trump had wrangled from Russia in his attempt to broker a permanent ceasefire in the three-year war between Russia and Ukraine.
Putin rejected a joint US-Ukrainian proposal for an unconditional and full ceasefire put to him in the past.
His Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia was never serious about the moratorium and that Moscow was “despite Putin’s words”;.
This is coming after Russian ambassador to the United Nation, UN, Vassily Nebenzia, accused Ukraine at the security council of ignoring the energy ceasefire.
