Russia hit at least six energy targets during a night and morning of deadly air strikes across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday, adding this showed Moscow had no interest in an energy ceasefire announced by Donald Trump.
Under pressure over high energy prices ahead of US midterm elections next month, US President Trump blindsided Kyiv and its European allies over the weekend by declaring that Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to hit each other’s energy systems.
“It is increasingly evident that Russia is unwilling to accept an energy ceasefire proposed by the United States and intends to continue its terrorist air attacks against our people and communities,” Zelenskiy said on X.
“This is what happens when Russia sees the prospect of higher revenues for its war machine.”
In earlier comments by video link to a conference in Poland, Zelenskiy identified two of the targets as a gas facility and a petrol station, both hit by Russian drones.
Trump announced the purported energy ceasefire days after unveiling a deal to buy diesel from Russia, which Zelenskiy has criticised as a reversal of years of Western policy aimed at isolating Russia’s economy.
Trump, for his part, has called on Ukrainians to unseat Zelenskiy in an election, an unusually severe exchange in a relationship between the two leaders that has been strained since Trump returned to power in 2025.
Trump’s announcement was the second time within a few weeks that Trump has declared an energy ceasefire without confirmation from the two warring sides.
Ukraine’s European allies yesterday voiced scepticism of any such agreement, spoke strongly in support of Kyiv and approved the largest set of EU sanctions since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
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