Trump Declares Immediate Russia-Ukraine Energy Ceasefire; Zelensky Says It Is News to Him as Strikes Continue

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt attacks on each other's energy infrastructure, effective immediately, writing "Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!". Neither Moscow nor Kyiv had confirmed the arrangement at the time.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the ceasefire "is news to me," adding: "If President Trump negotiated it with Putin, please tell us when the ceasefire begins". He later said Ukraine was ready to agree if Russia did the same, but reported that a Russian drone hit a power plant in Kyiv and that the CHP-5 heat-and-power plant in Kharkiv was struck after Trump's announcement. Zelensky said Russia had carried out more than 200 strikes on Ukrainian electricity facilities and another 17 on gas and oil sites in the past week, killing more than 150 people and wounding more than 700. On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said only that "contacts are continuing."

The announcement comes as Washington presses Kyiv over its own long-range strikes on Russian refineries: the Financial Times reported that the administration threatened to halt the PURL weapons procurement system to push Ukraine to stop them. For energy markets the truce has so far been a minor factor. Oil initially slipped on the announcement, but Brent, after dipping to $102.33, was up 1.3% at $106.10 a barrel by early Monday in New York, with WTI up 1.4% at $93.10, as attacks on Riyadh's international airport outweighed the ceasefire headlines, according to Investing.com. Watch for confirmation from Moscow, whether strikes on energy sites actually pause, and any formal terms from Washington.