France, UK assisted Ukraine in strike on Sudzha gas metering station — FM (Maria Zakharova)

There is reason to believe that the Ukrainian strike on the Sudzha gas metering station was carried out with the assistance of French satellite systems, while British specialists input the coordinates and hit the launch button, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated in response to the Kiev regime’s latest attack on Russia’s energy facilities.

"We have grounds to believe that the guidance and targeting of the strikes were conducted using French satellite systems, while UK specialists provided the coordinate input and carried out the launch. The command was issued from London. Just a week ago, on March 21, this facility was already subjected to a terrorist attack by the Kiev regime, which ordered its militants to blow it up as they retreated from the Kursk Region. Now, following the missile strike, the Sudzha gas metering station has been virtually destroyed," the diplomat noted.

Zakharova added that on March 28, Russian air defenses shot down and intercepted 19 Ukrainian UAVs attempting to attack the Saratov oil refinery.

"These are not the first acts of terror by the Ukrainian army against Russia's energy infrastructure following the March 18 announcement of a ban on shelling such facilities. Strikes have targeted gas industry enterprises, power distribution substations, and oil storage facilities, including those belonging to the international Caspian Pipeline Consortium, across the Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions, as well as Crimea and the Krasnodar Region," she added.