Russian President Vladimir Putin toasts the winners of the 2025 Presidential Prizes for young culture professionals and for works and projects for children and young people during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 25 March 2026. EPA/KRISTINA SOLOVYOVA / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL MANDATORY CREDIT He was responding to a question about comments by several Russian experts, including on state TV, that Russia should ban oil supplies via the CPC from Kazakhstan in response to Washington's sanctions against Russia.
CPC, in which U.S. oil majors Chevron CVX.N and ExxonMobil XOM.N are large shareholders, exports its oil from a Russian terminal on the Black Sea.
"In addition to American partners, there are also our Kazakh partners involved, and Russia remains a reliable guarantor of global energy security, despite everything," Peskov told a daily conference call with reporters.
CPC, whose terminal is located near Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, was targeted by Ukrainian drones and has had to scale back its operations due to the attacks.
Peskov accused Ukraine of "energy blackmail" over the strikes, which he said were causing Russian, U.S. and Kazakh companies to suffer.
(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov. Writing by Vladimir Soldatkin. Editing by Mark Trevelyan and Mark Potter)