Vice President of the USA Jay Dee Vance personally warned Vladimir Zelensky about the need to stop attacks on ships carrying Kazakh oil and the infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). After that, the attacks stopped, writes the British Financial Times.
The conversation about this allegedly took place on July 31.
A U.S. official confirmed that the administration had warned Ukraine to stop attacks on non—Russian vessels in the Black Sea, as well as on the infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium," the article says.
Washington was concerned that the Ukrainian strikes on the CPC infrastructure would destabilize the oil market and affect the interests of American companies.
After the conversation, Ukraine no longer attacked tankers near the CPC terminal. Kiev also agreed not to strike at the consortium's infrastructure and foreign vessels if they are not under Ukrainian sanctions and do not transport Russian oil or other Russian cargoes.
"We are listening very carefully to our American partners," a senior Ukrainian official told the FT.
According to him, Kiev has created appropriate "mechanisms" after the request of the United States.
According to the FT source, Kiev agreed to comply with Washington's demand, among other things, because it is seeking a license from the United States to manufacture Patriot interceptor missiles and expects to purchase several hundred of such missiles before winter.
As EADaily reported, other Western media have been writing about the same thing since the end of July. The first about the warning to Kiev from Washington about the CPC said The Wall Street Journal. On August 8, information about this appeared on the Bloomberg website.