Russia strikes Ukrainian energy sites after Trump announces ceasefire
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Russian forces struck energy facilities in Kyiv early Wednesday, days after U.S. President Donald Trump said Ukraine and Russia had agreed to stop attacking each other’s energy infrastructure.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the main target was Kyiv’s CHP-4 power plant and that the facility was hit. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said several energy sites in the capital and surrounding region came under ballistic missile attack. Emergency power cuts were introduced in five districts, according to energy company DTEK.
A residential building was also damaged and caught fire. Ukrainian authorities reported that one person was killed in the Holosiivskyi district and another was hospitalized in Darnytskyi. Ukraine’s air force said it detected the missiles only as they approached Kyiv and was still determining their number and type.
The attack followed strikes on at least six Ukrainian energy targets earlier in the week, according to Zelensky, including a thermal power plant in Kharkiv, a gas facility and a petrol station.
Trump announced Sunday that an energy ceasefire was “effective immediately.” Ukraine initially said it was unaware of an agreement, but Zelensky later said Kyiv would support a mutual halt to energy attacks if Russia did the same. Moscow has not confirmed that an agreement took effect. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said talks about a possible energy ceasefire were continuing and that more information would follow.
Zelensky said Ukraine had refrained from attacking Russian refineries overnight and accused Moscow of refusing to abide by the proposed arrangement.
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