Kremlin says energy cease-fire talks remain vague amid sabotage concerns

At a Wednesday press briefing in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitrij Peszkov confirmed that talks on an energy cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine have not yet been concretized, describing the negotiations as proceeding in a "discrete" manner without any scheduled trilateral meetings. He cautioned that European countries could sabotage any potential deal, while portraying the United States as working toward a peaceful solution.

Peszkov announced that President Vladimir Putin will participate in a major cyber-security conference, which he said is unrelated to recent cyber attacks on Yandex and Sberbank data centres, though Russian authorities are addressing those incidents with the business sector. He added that Russia has only heard about Ukraine's limitation of Starlink access through media reports and expressed a preference that such technology not be used for military purposes. Finally, he indicated that Russia intends to pursue legal avenues in European courts to reclaim assets it claims were unlawfully frozen, and referenced the Federal Security Service's role in detaining a Japanese journalist on espionage charges.