Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of large-scale strikes on civilian infrastructure despite mutual agreements reached in Riyadh, the USA reported the day before.

Russia's Defense Ministry has said that the Ukrainian military is carrying out strikes on energy infrastructure despite the results of talks in Saudi Arabia.

A statement from the Russian military ministry claims that on the night of March 26, Ukrainian drones attempted to attack “ground equipment of the Glebovsky underground gas storage facility” in Crimea, near Cape Tarkhankut.

In addition, Russia claims that on Wednesday morning, a Ukrainian drone struck a power facility in the Bryansk region, disabling a high-voltage line and “leaving consumers in the Komarichsky district without power supply.”

The Russian Defense Ministry also wrote that on March 25, a Ukrainian drone hit “a power facility of the branch of PJSC Rosseti Center - Kurskenergo,” which resulted in “a cascading shutdown of a number of substations, leaving more than 4,000 consumers in the Khomutovsky district without power supply.”

Russia said that Ukraine was “doing everything to disrupt the Russian-US agreements on step-by-step measures to settle the Ukrainian conflict”.

Ukrainian authorities have not commented on the claims of strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.

On Wednesday morning, however, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Russia for the strikes on civilian infrastructure, which he called “evidence of Russia's prolongation of this war.”

According to Zelensky, the Russian army attacked Ukraine with 117 drones, which included targeting civilian infrastructure. “To launch such large-scale strikes after ceasefire negotiations is to show everyone in the world with all clarity that Moscow is not going to go for real peace,” Zelensky wrote.

Earlier, Russia published its version of the agreements reached in Riyadh: according to this document, a 30-day ban on strikes against Russian and Ukrainian energy facilities should be in effect from March 18.