Russia says Ukraine violated moratorium on energy infrastructure strikes six times in past day

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said successful a connection connected Wednesday that Ukraine had carried retired six attacks connected Russian vigor infrastructure implicit the past day, successful usurpation of a U.S.-brokered moratorium connected hitting vigor infrastructure targets.

Ukraine and Russia agreed to intermission strikes connected each other's vigor facilities past month, but some sides person repeatedly accused each different of breaking the moratorium.

In statements published connected the Telegram messenger app, the ministry said that Kyiv had damaged vigor infrastructure successful Russia's Rostov and Kursk regions, arsenic good arsenic successful the Russian-controlled portion of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region.

It besides said that Ukraine had mounted 2 failed strikes successful Russia's Krasnodar region, including connected a compressor presumption serving the TurkStream pipeline, which sends state from Russia to Turkey via the Black Sea.

Reuters was incapable to verify the battlefield reports.

(Writing by Felix Light; Editing by Bernadette Baum/Guy Faulconbridge)