Energy Ceasefire

Russia struck a thermal power plant in Kharkiv twice. Ukrainian officials said the attacks came hours after President Trump announced an energy ceasefire.

CHP-5 caught fire after being hit twice, a local official told ABC News. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the strike came after Trump's statement. Russian forces, he said, also hit a power plant in Kyiv with a Shahed drone, cutting electricity to several districts, before striking energy facilities in the Kharkiv region. He laid out the attacks in a post on X, cited by The Guardian.

Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday morning. "Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" He gave no further detail on the terms. Moscow had not commented by Sunday evening.

Zelenskyy said the announcement caught him off guard. He told Axios, in an account relayed by NBC News and Al Jazeera, that the deal was "news to him." A senior Ukrainian presidential-office source told ABC News that Zelenskyy learned of it from social media. Ukraine would accept the ceasefire once Russia confirms it, he said. On Telegram, he wrote that Kyiv backs de-escalation "from our Ukrainian side."

Zelenskyy spoke earlier Sunday on ABC News' "This Week." Ukraine would stop striking Russian oil refineries, he said, if Moscow halted attacks on Ukraine's power grid. He would organize elections, he added, if Russia agreed to a 60-day full ceasefire.

It capped a tense week between Washington and Kyiv. The United States lifted sanctions on Russian fuel Friday under a deal in which Russia agreed to supply 300,000 tons of diesel immediately and 500,000 tons more in November, Trump said, according to NBC News. On Saturday, Trump said Zelenskyy should be replaced. "I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal," he told reporters, Fox News and Al Jazeera reported. Zelenskyy shot back. Choosing Ukraine's leader "is up to Ukrainians," he said.

Trump made a similar ceasefire claim in September. Moscow never confirmed it. Both sides kept striking energy sites, NBC News and Fox News reported. How the new ceasefire would be verified or enforced remained unclear Sunday, Fox News reported. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment, according to Fox News.