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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Russia has continued to strike Ukraine\u2019s<\/a> energy facilities even after U.S. President Donald Trump said a day earlier that the warring countries had agreed on an energy ceasefire in the 4 1\/2-year-old war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum in Poland, Zelenskyy said Ukraine had learned through media reports that Trump had secured an energy ceasefire deal with Russia which would involve a mutual pause in strikes on energy sites. Zelenskyy said he would be willing to honor such an agreement, if Moscow did the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe support it, but I have not heard approval of this proposal from the Russian side,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s brief social media post on Sunday claiming the purported agreement offered few details but said that the energy ceasefire took effect immediately, adding: \u201cDo not break it!\u201d On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov wouldn\u2019t say whether Russia had agreed to such a ceasefire, saying only: \u201cContacts are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zelenskyy said Ukraine had been \u201chorribly surprised\u201d when, following Trump\u2019s announcement, Russia struck numerous energy facilities including a power plant in the northeastern city of Kharkiv as well as a gas production facility and a civilian gas station.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was clear that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin does not read Truth Social,\u201d Zelenskyy said, referring to Trump\u2019s social media platform.
Energy strikes have caused pain for both Ukraine and Russia<\/p>\n

Trump previously announced a similar agreement on ceasing energy strikes that did not come to fruition. In a social media post on Sept. 14, he said both countries had agreed \u201cnot to hit\u201d each other\u2019s energy infrastructure, but offered no details on that proposal either.<\/p>\n

Russia has used attacks on energy facilities in order to deny Ukrainian civilians power, heat and running water during the war, hoping to wear down public resistance to Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion. Ukrainian officials describe the strategy as \u201cweaponizing winter,\u201d and fear Russia could ramp up such attacks as cold weather approaches.<\/p>\n

Ukraine, meanwhile, has launched strikes against Russian energy sites like oil refineries, sometimes deep within Russian territory. That\u2019s prompted Trump to blame Zelenskyy for record U.S. diesel prices \u2014 rather than the U.S.-led war in Iran \u2014 and to strike a deal with Putin on Friday to import diesel from Russia in an attempt to bring fuel prices down ahead of U.S. midterm elections.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Zelenskyy said Kyiv was ready to comply with Trump\u2019s requests to stop striking Russian refineries if Moscow halted attacks on Ukraine\u2019s energy system, and asked Trump to press the Kremlin to agree. He added that if Moscow does not agree to an energy ceasefire this winter, \u201cwe will respond.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are waiting for the details of the conversation between the Americans and the Russians, and we are waiting to see what specific steps the Americans are ready to take,\u201d he said. \u201cThis energy ceasefire can work, and it can become a major step toward ending the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The European Union\u2019s top diplomat on Monday welcomed the prospect of a pause in energy strikes in Ukraine, but said she sees no sign that Russia would be willing to respect it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe haven\u2019t yet seen that also Russia will stick to it,\u201d EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said at a meeting of the bloc\u2019s foreign ministers in Luxembourg. \u201cPersonally, I would also welcome that the ceasefire would include people not being killed, not only energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s deal with Putin to purchase diesel from Russia dismayed officials in the U.S., Ukraine and around Europe. A bipartisan group of six senators, including four Republicans, called on the Trump administration on Sunday to \u201cimmediately reverse course\u201d on the deal, saying the U.S. should \u201cnot provide Putin with a financial lifeline\u201d while Russia is killing Ukrainian civilians.<\/p>\n

Kallas also pushed back on Trump\u2019s comments on Saturday that it was time for Ukraine to get a new president and that Zelenskyy has not done enough to end the war. She said that now is not the time to hold elections in Ukraine, at least not without a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

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