Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that 45,000 residents were left without electricity in Kherson this morning as a result of Russian shelling of the power sector.
The Foreign Minister said this at a joint press conference with his Lithuanian counterpart Kęstutis Budrys in Kyiv, Ukrinform reports.
“After the agreements in Riyadh, there was an agreement not to strike the energy structure. At the same time, Russia continues to violate this agreement. Energy facilities in Kherson, Kharkiv, and Poltava have already been damaged, and this morning another Russian strike damaged a power facility in Kherson, leaving 45,000 residents without electricity,” the head of Ukrainian diplomacy said.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, during the talks between the American and Ukrainian delegations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Ukraine agreed to develop measures to implement the agreement between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky to ban strikes on energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine.
On March 28, President Volodymyr Zelensky instructed Defense Minister Rustem Umerov to present to his American partners the facts of damage to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as a result of Russian shelling.
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Source: Russia violates energy ceasefire, new strike damages facility in Kherson - MFA
