Kyiv and Moscow have accused each other of attacking the crucial Sudzha gas metering station in Russia’s border region of Kursk, which has been under Ukrainian control since August 2024.
Russian state television, Rossiya 24, along with several Russian news channels on Telegram, released images of the station in flames, accusing the Ukrainian army of being responsible.
However, no official statement has been made by Russian authorities.
The Ukrainian army’s general staff quickly condemned what it called a Russian disinformation campaign.
“These accusations are baseless. In fact, the station has been shelled multiple times by the Russians themselves,” the Ukrainian general staff said on Facebook, asserting that Russian forces “fired artillery shells at the facility” during the night.
The general staff specified that the site was “bombed last summer with guided aerial bombs and hit again three days ago by Russian guided missiles.”
The Sudzha gas metering station has been under Ukrainian control since August 2024.
Despite the limited truce agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, endorsed by Kyiv under U.S. pressure and targeting energy infrastructure, Russian and Ukrainian have continued bombing such sites in recent days.
Fierce fighting is ongoing in the Kursk region near the Ukrainian border, where Russian forces have made unprecedented advances in recent weeks to try and expel Ukrainian troops from their territory.
Russia has devastated Ukraine’s energy network in three years of invasion, while Ukraine has retaliated by destroying numerous Russian oil terminals using long-range explosive drones.
