Russia strikes Ukrainian energy sites after Trump announces ceasefire

Russian strikes hit six Ukrainian energy facilities after President Donald Trump announced an immediate ceasefire on attacks against energy infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday. Oil and fuel prices rose as neither Moscow nor Kyiv confirmed that a truce was in place.

“Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social. Zelensky said Ukraine learned of the announcement from media reports, but supported a halt to energy attacks if Russia complied.

“We did not attack, while Russia attacked our gas stations, energy infrastructure, and other facilities,” Zelensky told Fox News. He said 33 people were injured in strikes on energy facilities across Ukraine and called the attacks proof that Russia was “unwilling to accept an energy ceasefire.” NBC News reported that the Kremlin neither confirmed nor denied an agreement on Monday.

Ukraine’s state grid operator, Ukrenergo, reported new power cuts in the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions after attacks damaged energy equipment, according to the BBC. It said electricity was being rationed in some areas to prevent damaged equipment from overloading. Ukraine’s state news agency Ukrinform reported blackouts in Izyum after a strike destroyed power grids, while energy and railway infrastructure in western Ukraine was also targeted overnight.

Separately, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a drone hit a 25-story residential building in the city’s Darnytskyi district Monday evening, killing one person and injuring 11, the BBC reported.

Asked Monday why neither side had firmly committed to his announced ceasefire, Trump told reporters: “They agreed, you know why? Because I said ‘You agree.’” Asked whether Russia had violated it, he said, “I’m not sure about that,” and claimed there had been “violations on both sides,” according to NBC News. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Ukraine did not deserve the “respite” a ceasefire would bring, the BBC reported.

Brent crude climbed 2% Monday to nearly $108 a barrel, while U.S. crude rose more than 2% to about $94, NBC News reported. U.S. diesel averaged $6.26 a gallon, nearly 80% above its price at the start of the year, according to AAA data cited by NBC News.

The ceasefire announcement followed Trump’s declaration Friday that Russia would supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to U.S. and global markets. NBC News reported that the amount equals about 2.25 million barrels, less than one day of U.S. diesel use. The U.S. Treasury Department suspended sanctions on Russian diesel for six months to allow the deal, NBC News reported; details of how the fuel would be delivered had not been announced by Monday. Zelensky called the sanctions relief a “gift” to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the BBC.

Both countries have struck the other’s energy infrastructure during the war. Zelensky said Ukraine remains open to an agreement to stop targeting it if Moscow does the same. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc would welcome a ceasefire “when it holds,” but added: “We haven’t yet seen that also Russia will stick to it.”