A speaker stated that, according to his account, the 2022 Istanbul negotiations were interrupted by the Ukrainian side. No independent source in the provided text corroborates this specific claim of responsibility for the interruption.

A Russian official stated that the Ukrainian government has damaged over 100 vessels, though independent verification of this specific figure and attribution is currently unavailable.

President Putin asserted that Kyiv was the first to target refineries, though this specific claim has not been independently verified.

The head of state also referenced reported Ukrainian strikes against Russian infrastructure and merchant vessels. The accuracy of these specific claims has not been independently verified.