Today during the daily press briefing, Dmitry Peskov Kremlin spokesman dismissed any decline in Russia’s relations with Washington.

He indicated that parts of the statement Trump made were paraphrased rather than the direct quotes, he therefore stated that work on a Ukrainian peace process is ongoing, and described discussions on a potential maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea as a work in progress.

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According to a report from Russian state-owned Tass news agency, Peskov said today that the US-brokered deal for a ceasefire in the Black Sea was a work in progress.

He is referring to a naval ceasefire in the Black Sea, agreed by both Russia and Ukraine in separate deals with the US last week.

Peskov said today that the previous Black Sea Grain Initiative, which was struck in 2022, was “implemented in the part concerning Ukraine” but never fulfilled in the part concerning Russia”. Russia pulled out of the deal in 2023.

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He stressed that “therefore, all these details are now receiving due attention in the course of our contacts”.

“There is still some work to be done,” Tass reported him as saying, adding he “cannot go into the full details about the range of issues on the agenda”.

Volodymyr Zelensky stated on Sunday that Putin “does not care about diplomacy” and urged for increased pressure on Russia to bring an end to the war

Russia and Ukraine continue to trade accusations over attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure, despite prior US-brokered commitments to refrain from such actions.

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This morning, Russia’s defence ministry reported that Ukrainian shelling damaged a power line in the Bryansk region, leading to an outage. The ministry also claimed that Ukrainian drones targeted an electricity substation in the same area the previous evening.

“Continuing deliberate attacks by Ukraine against Russian energy facilities show that the Kyiv regime is totally incapable of keeping any commitments related to conflict settlement in Ukraine,” the Russian defence ministry said.

Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Oleh Sunehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, reported that Russian shelling had left multiple settlements without power. Speaking to Ukrainian television, he said emergency workers had managed to restore electricity to nearly 2,000 households “despite the constant danger.”

In the Zaporizhzhia region, local administration head Ivan Fedorov confirmed that part of the village of Kushuhum also suffered a power outage due to a Russian attack.