War Ukraine Russia, Trump announces "energy truce". Axios: "No from Moscow." LIVE

The US president announces an energy truce between Russia and Ukraine on Truth: "Both sides have agreed, it is in force immediately". But the Ukrainian leader says he knows nothing: "If he negotiated it with Putin, please tell us when it starts." "Russia has not accepted any kind of truce," Axios reports, citing a White House official. Kiev reports: "A power plant hit after the announcement".

"We welcome the truce in the energy sector, as long as it is respected. We have not yet seen whether Russia will also respect it," said EU High Representative Kaja Kallas.

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Russia "violated the energy ceasefire immediately after the announcement" by US President Donald Trump. This was stated by the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Andriy Sybiha, who explained on "I reiterated Ukraine's availability for a complete energy ceasefire if Russia stops attacking our energy infrastructure", continued the head of Kiev's diplomacy, "Russian terror must be faced with strength, unity and determination: additional military aid packages for Ukraine, the opening of EU accession clusters and the full use of frozen Russian assets". “I thanked Germany for its leadership in supporting Ukraine,” concluded Sybiha, “this is a two-way street that brings tangible benefits to the German economy, from energy cooperation and joint defense production to access for German companies to reconstruction projects.”

Volodymyr Zelensky is showing no will to stop the conflict, which is why US President Donald Trump says Ukraine needs a new president. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Ria Novosti agency. "Trump - said Peskov - said he believes the time has come for a new president. Why? Because the Ukrainian president has to make very important and very difficult decisions to stop this war. Either Zelensky takes on this responsibility and demonstrates political will, or not."

"Unfortunately Trump loves Putin and doesn't love Zelensky. He just doesn't seem to understand how a country with weaker armed forces and without nuclear weapons can refuse to bend to the will of a great power." Oleksandra Matvijchuk, Ukrainian human rights lawyer and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner, tells the Press, speaking of the American president's alternating positions regarding the Ukrainian head of state. "Trump - she adds - simply aims to benefit himself and his inner circle, taking advantage of the position he has in this conflict as of president of the United States. An approach openly defined as transactional". On the domestic front, states the Nobel Prize winner, "Zelensky enjoys the support of the entire country, as he acts in the interests of the Ukrainian people".

"To force Putin to put an end to the conflict - explains Matvijchuk - the cost of war must be higher for him than that of peace. Unfortunately, Ukraine cannot do it alone. For this reason the international community must confiscate Russian assets, make the Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression operational, seize the ships of the Russian shadow fleet and concretely sanction European companies that help Russia to evade the limitations. Putin wants to achieve his war objectives by reasoning according to historical categories that have been outdated in the attempt to restore the Russian empire by force. After almost five years of invasion and a total of twelve years of war, the Tsar has not abandoned his goal, because human life is the least costly resource for the Russian state. He thinks of his own historical legacy and the European countries are safe only because the Ukrainians continue to slow down his advance."

“If pressure is put on Russia to end this war, I am sure that Ukraine will hold elections.” This was stated by the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Kaja Kallas, upon arrival at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg. “Almost all constitutions stipulate that elections cannot be held in times of war. And I understand that President Zelensky also said that, in the event of a ceasefire, he would be willing to hold elections as soon as possible. But elections are always a clash between different groups within the country, while attacks come from outside: that's why it's really important to keep the population together while the war is ongoing,” Kallas said.

Sanctions on Russia "would work much better if our partners were aligned with us. If the United States were aligned with us, if they passed the Graham bill on Russia, we could really put pressure on Russia to end this war." This was said by the High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Kaja Kallas while arriving at the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg. The “Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026” (known as the Graham Act) is a US legislative package passed by Congress to increase economic pressure on Moscow and its allies.

US President Donald Trump is "very angry" with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, who he accuses of contributing to the global surge in fuel prices with his attacks on Russian refineries. A White House source confided this to Axios, according to whom Trump believes that the Kiev leader "is taking US support for granted". After lifting sanctions on the export of Russian diesel last Friday, the US president - writes Axios - "remains focused on the need to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries" and "believes that the attacks are increasing gasoline prices in the United States". “Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries are hurting the relationship between Zelensky and Trump more than they are hurting Russia,” administration sources warn. The occupant of the White House yesterday announced on Truth Social a ceasefire with immediate effect between Russia and Ukraine, limited to attacks on energy infrastructure. Zelensky immediately stated that he knew nothing of this agreement and the only reaction so far from Moscow is the bombing of a power plant in Kharkiv which caused three deaths last night.

The Russian missile attack that killed three people in Kharkiv was aimed at an energy plant and was launched shortly after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev limited to this type of infrastructure. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, yesterday, immediately after Trump's communication, said he knew nothing of such an agreement and no confirmation or reaction has yet been received from the Russian side. "The Russians are thinking about it," an administration source told Axios, "we'll know soon if they're ready."

At least three people were killed and 25 others injured late yesterday evening in a Russian missile attack against a residential area in the town of Pisochyn, outside Kharkiv; This was announced by the Ukrainian National Police, according to The Kyiv Independent. The victims include a 16-year-old boy, a 19-year-old girl and a 51-year-old woman. Among the injured there are also two girls aged 13 and 9. The attack comes on a dramatic day for Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city. Also yesterday, two bombs hit the city district of Nemyshlyanskyi, causing the death of one person and wounding at least eight others. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that "this week alone the Russians have launched around 1,450 aerial bombs, 75 missiles of various types and over 1,640 attack drones, of which around 60% are jet-propelled."