Key takeaways:
- Ukraine’s Air Force said it received no warning before an approximately 11 p.m. strike on Kyiv power plants but was warned before a subsequent strike at 3 a.m.
- Zelenskyy alleged delays in vital U.S. supplies but did not identify the shipments.
- The Trump administration denies changing intelligence shared with Ukraine or deliberately slowing Starshield data; Rubio said U.S. European Command was examining the strikes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Ukraine received no warning from its partners before an overnight Russian missile attack, renewing concerns in Kyiv about early-warning intelligence and delays in U.S. military supplies.
“Once again, Russia launched a ballistic missile attack in multiple waves throughout the night, and once again, there was no warning from our partners,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.
Russian missiles hit power plants in Kyiv at about 11 p.m. Sunday, The Guardian reported. Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yuri Ihnat said Ukraine received no warning before that barrage but did receive one ahead of a subsequent strike at 3 a.m. According to The Guardian, Ukraine says it went without warnings before missile launches on at least three days in the past week.
Zelenskyy said the overnight attacks targeted energy and other infrastructure and also hit a medical clinic, a school, a metro station and residential buildings. He did not provide details of damage or casualties in the statements cited by CBS News.
Asked about the warnings, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: “If it happened last night, I don’t know exactly. I know a few nights ago there was a software problem involving their early warning system.” Rubio said the U.S. military’s European Command was examining the strikes. The Guardian reported that U.S. officials had not previously cited a software problem.
Zelenskyy also said Monday that some “vital supplies” were being delayed at the U.S. Department of War. He did not identify the shipments. The Guardian reported that Ukraine has complained of slower deliveries of U.S. PAC-3 air-defense missiles and delays in U.S. weapons purchased by Europe for delivery to Ukraine.
“When the supply of missiles for Ukrainian air defence is blocked, and Russia receives sanctions relief or delays, it is, unfortunately, a denial of reality on the part of our partners,” Zelenskyy said.
A separate dispute centers on satellite services used by Ukrainian forces. Zelenskyy said Saturday that Ukraine still could not use Starshield, a military version of Elon Musk’s Starlink technology, to intercept Russian drones. The Trump administration has denied changing the intelligence it shares with Ukraine or deliberately slowing Starshield data, according to CBS News. Rubio said Saturday that nobody in the U.S. government had ordered Starlink speeds reduced and that he understood service had been restored. Denys Sienik, Ukraine’s top diplomat in Washington, told CBS News that Ukraine had received no confirmation from the Pentagon or Musk’s SpaceX that full speeds or previous Starshield operations had been restored.
The disputes come as President Donald Trump seeks a negotiated end to the war. He said Sunday that he did not want his decision on Russia to drive it from peace talks, and accused Zelenskyy of not wanting to end the fighting. Zelenskyy responded: “Ukraine never wanted this war.”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Moscow valued U.S. mediation but that agreements were impossible without Ukrainian representatives. The Wall Street Journal reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin had proposed talks among U.S., Chinese and Russian officials without Ukraine. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said such a meeting would “encourage Putin to continue this war.”
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