LONDON, August 12. /TASS/. US Vice President JD Vance personally asked Kiev to halt strikes on the infrastructure linked to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), the Financial Times reported, citing sources.

According to the report, Vance conveyed Washington’s request in a phone call with Vladimir Zelensky on July 31. "Ukraine has not struck tankers near the CPC terminal since then," the newspaper noted. "We very carefully listen to our American partners," a senior Ukrainian official told The Financial Times.

Kiev agreed to the Trump administration’s request because it was seeking a US licence to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, another source said.

Bloomberg reported on August 8, citing sources, that at the US request, Kiev had pledged at Washington’s request not to attack Russia-linked oil tankers and Black Sea infrastructure involved in the export of Kazakh oil. According to the news outlet, Ukraine "committed to refrain from targeting Caspian Pipeline Consortium infrastructure and non-Russian vessels bound for the terminal as long as those ships are not otherwise subject to Ukrainian sanctions and aren’t carrying Russian cargo."