Russia strikes Ukrainian power plant after Trump claims energy ceasefire

Russia struck a power plant in eastern Ukraine, contradicting President Trump’s announcement earlier Sunday that both countries agreed to an “energy ceasefire.”

A local official who spoke with ABC News said that a thermal power plant in the city of Kharkiv was hit twice and on fire. Ukrainian President Voldoymyr Zelensky confirmed the attack, along with multiple others.

“Unfortunately, Ukrainian skies have been infested with Russian ‘shaheds’ all day today. There have been glide bomb strikes and strikes on our energy infrastructure too. A power plant in Kharkiv was attacked this evening,” Zelenzesky wrote in a statement posted on the social platform X.

The strikes arrived hours after Trump claimed Ukraine and Russia reached an energy ceasefire deal.

“Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine,” the president wrote Sunday on Truth Social. “Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!”

Zelensky was caught off-guard by the claim, telling Axios that the deal “was news for me. But if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire, Ukraine will agree.”

“Ukraine wants peace. The question is whether Russia does. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have received all the appropriate orders. We are awaiting clear details of the dialogue between America and Russia – and we expect Putin to follow through on what President Trump said,” Zelensky added in his statement on X.

Trump on Friday announced that Russia will supply oil for the U.S. and global markets, lifting sanctions on the Eastern European country and boosting its economy.

“I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace,” he wrote in a Truth Social post Friday.

The cost of diesel has skyrocketed in recent months. With the midterm elections less than a month away, the GOP is in tricky political territory, putting pressure on the Trump administration to address rising costs.

Democratic lawmakers have criticized the diesel agreement with Russia.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called it “filthy” and said the president was making a “deal with the devil.”