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Azerbaijan and Ukraine on Sunday condemned Russian airstrikes on Azerbaijani energy infrastructure in Ukraine, including an oil depot and gas facilities.
“During the conversation, both sides condemned the deliberate airstrikes by Russia on an oil storage facility owned by Azerbaijan’s state oil and gas company SOCAR in Ukraine,” the Azerbaijani presidency said in a statement after a phone call between President Ilham Aliyev and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The statement said the leaders also condemned strikes on “other Azerbaijani facilities and a gas compressor station transporting Azerbaijani gas to Ukraine,” adding that they were confident the attacks would not hinder energy cooperation.
Zelenskyy said on X that the two countries had achieved “significant” progress in energy cooperation and would continue to expand it. “Ukraine considers this a deliberate attempt by Russia to block the energy routes that ensure energy independence for us and other European countries,” he said.
On Friday, RBC-Ukraine reported that a Russian drone strike hit a SOCAR oil depot in Odesa overnight, sparking a fire and damaging a diesel fuel pipeline.
Earlier this month, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said a Russian airstrike targeted a compressor station near the Romanian border, noting that “test volumes of Azerbaijani gas were already being delivered” through the facility. Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed the strike, saying it damaged facilities supporting Ukraine’s military-industrial complex.
Moscow has not commented on the phone call between the leaders.
The Azerbaijani statement said Aliyev and Zelenskyy also discussed bilateral ties, highlighting last month’s meeting of the Azerbaijan-Ukraine intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation in Baku.
Zelenskyy congratulated Aliyev on the signing of a trilateral peace roadmap between Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the United States in Washington on Friday. Aliyev said the deals reached at the summit would “contribute to ensuring lasting peace, stability, and prosperity in the region.”
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“The world has responded very positively to the trilateral meeting in Washington,” Zelenskyy said on X. “We hope everything will work.”
The declaration, signed at the White House, commits Armenia and Azerbaijan to ending decades of conflict, reopening transport routes, and normalizing relations. The two countries have fought multiple wars since the late 1980s, most recently in 2020, when Azerbaijan regained control of its Karabakh region.
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