Russian drones and glide bombs kept hitting Ukraine on Sunday, including its energy infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, on the same day President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire.
A power plant in Kharkiv came under attack Sunday evening, Zelenskyy wrote in a post on X. Russian Shahed drones filled Ukrainian skies throughout the day, he said.
Zelenskyy called Trump’s ceasefire statement good news for everyone. He said it was important that the truce become reality.
Over the past week, Russia carried out more than 200 strikes on Ukraine’s electricity generation and transmission facilities, according to Zelenskyy. He reported 17 more strikes on gas and oil facilities during the same week.
Those attacks were part of a week in which Russia killed more than 150 people in Ukraine and wounded more than 700, he said. The figures were not independently verified.
Ukraine has proposed many steps to ease hostilities, Zelenskyy wrote, but Russian President Vladimir Putin answered all of them with “nyet.” He said he hoped Putin would finally say something to the United States, Ukraine and the world that leads to “a real and dignified peace.”
“Ukraine wants peace. The question is whether Russia does.”
He said Ukraine’s armed forces had received “all the appropriate orders.” Ukraine is waiting for clear details of the dialogue between Washington and Moscow, he added, and expects Putin to follow through on what Trump said.
Trump announced the ceasefire on Truth Social, writing that it took effect immediately and that both countries had agreed. “Do not break it!” he wrote.
He gave no details about which facilities were covered, how long the agreement would last or how violations would be handled. His claim that both countries had agreed was not independently verified.
Zelenskyy had earlier offered to halt Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries if Russia stopped striking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. In an earlier post on X, he set a condition for any such move: “Any de-escalation steps must be reciprocal and backed by real guarantees.” That post did not confirm Ukraine had accepted the ceasefire Trump later announced.
The same post described a deadly stretch of attacks. Rescue crews in Zaporizhzhia had finished their search that morning, Zelenskyy wrote, after a Russian attack there killed 23 people, including four children.
A morning strike in Slovyansk destroyed a whole section of a five-story apartment building, he reported, warning that people might remain under the rubble. In Kharkiv, a medical facility was attacked the previous day, and overnight strikes hit homes, energy sites and other civilian infrastructure, according to the post.
Zelenskyy said Russia used around 1,450 aerial bombs and 75 missiles that week, along with more than 1,640 attack drones. Roughly 60% of the drones were jet-powered, he wrote. The weapons totals, casualty figures and damage accounts were not independently verified.
Zelenskyy thanked emergency workers, blamed Russia alone for the war in Europe and accused Putin of refusing to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
He said he would speak with European leaders that day about more support, with air defenses and ammunition for combat aircraft among the main priorities in near-daily talks with partners.
