Six Ukrainian energy sites hit by Russia since Donald Trump announced ceasefire – Zelenskyy
Russia struck six Ukrainian energy facilities hours after US President Donald Trump announced the two countries had agreed to an energy ceasefire, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, BBC News reported.
Energy facilities in Kharkiv were hit by Russian strikes on Sunday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky statedDespite Trump stating on 11 October that the truce would be “effective immediately”, the Ukrainian president said Russia had hit “our gas stations, energy infrastructure, and other facilities”.
There were blackouts in the city of Izyum after a Russian strike destroyed power grids, Ukraine’s state news agency Ukrinform reported, while energy and railway infrastructure in western Ukraine was also targeted overnight.
On Monday, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine does not deserve the “respite” a ceasefire would bring.
Aftermath of Russian strike on residential apartment block in Kharkiv on 12 October 2026The Ukrainian president said that 33 people had been injured in the strikes on energy facilities across the country. He told Fox News: “We did not attack, while Russia attacked our gas stations, energy infrastructure, and other facilities.”
“I think it was Putin’s answer to President Trump,” Zelenskyy added.
Electricity rationing has been introduced in parts of Ukraine to avoid overloading damaged equipment, Ukrenergo said.
Zelenskyy said on X the strikes were proof Russia was “unwilling to accept an energy ceasefire”.
On Monday evening, Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on Telegram that a drone hit a 25-story residential building in the Darnytskyi District. The Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office reported that two people were killed as a result of the strike: a 59-year-old woman and another person in a car near the building. According to the prosecutor’s office, at least 7 people were injured. They sustained shrapnel wounds, bruises, and lacerations. Among the injured is a 17-year-old girl.
Russian forces killed three civilians, including a 13-year-old girl, in Cherkaske in the Donetsk Oblast on the morning of 12 October.
The head of the Oblast Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov, reported that one person was killed in a Russian drone strike on a civilian car in Krasnopillia “hromada”, a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements, in the Sumy Oblast. After the hit, the car caught fire. The driver died.
To provide background, US president Donald Trump has not secured an end to Russia’s war within 24 hours of taking office, as he had promised. Furthermore, numerous Ukrainian and international experts point out that the U.S., as a guarantor state under the Budapest Memorandum, is pressuring Kyiv into capitulation.
- Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova over the alleged unlawful deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children from occupied territories to Russia (March 2023);
- military officials Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov over strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure (March 2024);
- Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to missile strikes on Ukraine’s electric infrastructure between 10 October 2022 and 9 March 2023 (June 2024).
US President Donald Trump said he has reached an agreement with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin to supply Russian diesel fuel to the United States and global markets. Trump agreed with Putin to immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, another 500,000 in November, and a further 1 million tons thereafter. Trump added that a further 3 million will be delivered within a short period of time based on the condition of Russian diesel refineries.
In a related move, the US Treasury Department announced a partial lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel through April 2027.
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