Developing: Trump's Energy Truce Meets a Strike on Kharkiv Power Plant
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the announcement was news to him and offered Ukraine's support if Russia agreed. Ukraine's Presidential Office then confirmed a strike on a Kharkiv power plant, putting the proposed pause to an immediate test.
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Donald Trump announced an immediate Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire on October 11, but Kyiv said it was awaiting details and soon reported a strike on a Kharkiv power plant.
The US president said on Truth Social that both countries had agreed to stop attacks on energy infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Axios the announcement was news to him and said Ukraine would accept a reciprocal pause if Moscow agreed.
Soon after Trump's announcement, Ukraine's Presidential Office confirmed that a strike had hit the Kharkiv power plant known as CHP-5. Zelenskyy described an attack on the city's energy infrastructure, bringing the proposed ceasefire's first reported test almost immediately after its announcement.
The pause would address a specific part of the war: attacks on the systems that supply electricity and fuel. Zelenskyy's public offer was to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries if Russia stopped hitting Ukraine's energy system. That gave the proposal a basis for an exchange, but his response to Trump remained conditional.
As of the October 11 reports, Russia had not publicly confirmed the deal. Trump's post supplied no terms or verification process, and neither government had formally confirmed its operational arrangements or start time. The reporting does not establish whether an agreement existed or whether the Kharkiv strike fell under it, nor does it independently establish responsibility for that attack.
