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Washington sent a demarche to Kyiv after the attack on the port of Novorossiysk
Ukrainian Ambassador to Washington Olga Stefanishyna said she received a demarche (official diplomatic notification) from the US State Department after an attack by Ukrainian drones on the infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) in the port of Novorossiysk in November 2025. This was reported by CNN and Suspilna .
According to the US ambassador, they did not suggest that Kyiv refrain from attacks on Russian military and energy infrastructure in principle. The demarche “was connected precisely to the fact that American economic interests are affected there,” she said at a briefing on February 24. We have taken note of this."
CPC is a large international project with the participation of Kazakhstan (19%), Russia (24%) and global oil producing companies. In particular, a subsidiary of the American corporation Chevron owns 15% of the company's shares. The length of the pipeline is 1,500 kilometers. CPC provides approximately 80% of Kazakhstan's oil exports.
On the night of November 29, as a result of an attack by sea drones, the remote mooring device (SPU-2) in the port of Novorossiysk was disabled , which seriously complicated the loading of oil transported from Kazakhstan to the port of Novorossiysk onto tankers. The Kazakh Foreign Ministry placed responsibility for the attack on VPU-2 on Ukraine, although Kyiv, unlike many other attacks on facilities in Russia, did not officially take responsibility for it. Kazakh Energy Minister Erlan Akkenzhenov said in December 2025 that oil production losses due to attacks on the CPC reached 480 thousand tons. There have been no strikes on the CPC infrastructure since November.
US authorities did not officially report the demarche.
The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, in a commentary to RBC-Ukraine on Wednesday, spoke out against attacks on political centers and places of residence of the leaders of the warring countries. “It doesn’t matter whether we are talking about Kyiv or the conditional Valdai. Especially now, when the difficult process of peace negotiations is underway,” he said.
According to him, in the context of complex peace negotiations, compliance with the rules is especially important: “Only in this way can we bring the long-awaited sustainable peace closer.”
Russian authorities previously claimed that in late December Ukraine tried to strike the residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Valdai. Kyiv denied this. US President Donald Trump also said he does not believe the Russian claims. After that, Moscow stopped mentioning it. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, in turn, mentioned attempts on his life.
Washington sent a demarche to Kyiv after the attack on the port of Novorossiysk