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Russia Accuses Ukraine of Attacking its Energy Infrastructure Five Times in Past 24 Hours

Burning emergency vehicles are seen at the site of a hospital hit by an overnight Russian air strike in the town of Kupiansk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine April 11, 2025. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS
Burning emergency vehicles are seen at the site of a hospital hit by an overnight Russian air strike in the town of Kupiansk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine April 11, 2025. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS
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Russia Accuses Ukraine of Attacking its Energy Infrastructure Five Times in Past 24 Hours

Burning emergency vehicles are seen at the site of a hospital hit by an overnight Russian air strike in the town of Kupiansk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine April 11, 2025. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS
Burning emergency vehicles are seen at the site of a hospital hit by an overnight Russian air strike in the town of Kupiansk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine April 11, 2025. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS

The Russian Defense Ministry on Friday accused Ukraine of attacking Russian energy infrastructure five times in the last 24 hours despite a US-brokered moratorium on strikes on each other's energy facilities.

The ministry said in a statement that Ukrainian strikes had hit power facilities in Russia's Kursk and Bryansk regions, as well as energy targets in Russian-controlled parts of the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, which Moscow has claimed as its own.

Reuters was unable to verify the reports of the strikes. Ukraine has made similar accusations against Russia since the US-backed moratorium was approved.

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Netherlands Summons Iranian Ambassador over Alleged Assassination Attempts

An anti-Israeli billboard reads 'Once again, a Pharaoh will drown' at Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, 22 April 2025. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
An anti-Israeli billboard reads 'Once again, a Pharaoh will drown' at Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, 22 April 2025. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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Netherlands Summons Iranian Ambassador over Alleged Assassination Attempts

An anti-Israeli billboard reads 'Once again, a Pharaoh will drown' at Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, 22 April 2025. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
An anti-Israeli billboard reads 'Once again, a Pharaoh will drown' at Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, 22 April 2025. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

Iran's ambassador to the Netherlands was summoned on Thursday after the Dutch intelligence agency said it suspected Tehran of being behind two assassination attempts in Europe, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.
The Dutch general intelligence agency, known as the AIVD, said in its annual report published on Thursday that two men were arrested in June 2024 in the Dutch town of Haarlem after an assassination attempt there on an Iranian residing in the country.
One of the suspects is also suspected of the failed assassination attempt on Spanish politician and Iran critic Alejo Vidal-Quadras in Madrid in November 2023, Reuters quoted it as saying.
"The two assassination attempts fit into the modus operandi that Iran has been using for years: using criminal networks in Europe to silence purported opponents of the regime. Based on intelligence, it is likely that Iran is responsible for the two liquidation attempts," the AIVD said.
Several months after surviving the shooting attack, Vidal-Quadras, who co-founded the Spanish far-right party Vox, said he believed that Iran's government had hired hitmen to assassinate him over his links to an Iranian dissident group, without providing evidence of the assertion.