Russia and Ukraine Trade Energy Strikes Despite Trump's Truce Claim

Russia and Ukraine continued to strike each other's energy infrastructure overnight, undercutting an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump that the two sides had agreed to stop hitting such targets.

Russia launched about 200 drones at Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, killing two people, Ukrainian officials said. One person died in the capital and another in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia. Two petrol stations in Kyiv were damaged, according to the state energy company Naftogaz, and explosions were heard in and around the city. Energy and port infrastructure in other regions was also hit.

Ukraine, for its part, struck an oil refinery in Syzran in Russia's Samara region on the Volga River, along with drone production facilities in the Taganrog and Oryol regions, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. The Samara governor reported that an industrial facility had been hit without identifying it, while the Taganrog governor said a warehouse belonging to the e-commerce firm Ozon was struck.

"Russia continues to attack our energy sector, regular logistics and critical infrastructure. And our responses to them for this are tangible," Zelenskiy said on Telegram.

Trump said on Monday that the two countries had agreed to halt strikes on each other's energy infrastructure, which he described as the main driver of a global fuel shortage that has pushed U.S. diesel prices to record highs. Zelenskiy responded that Ukraine was prepared to stop such strikes but needed credible guarantees from its partners that Russia would do the same. Moscow did not immediately comment on Trump's announcement, though it has previously welcomed his calls for Kyiv to halt attacks on Russian refineries.

Russia has persistently targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure with missiles and drones since its full-scale invasion in 2022, and in recent weeks has begun hitting petrol stations in Kyiv and other cities. Kyiv has stepped up long-range attacks on Russia this year, including a campaign against oil refineries that has caused fuel shortages. Earlier U.S. attempts to broker a ceasefire on energy infrastructure have failed.

As Moscow's attack unfolded, neighbouring Poland conducted preventive military aviation operations, later saying its airspace had not been violated. In Lithuania, a NATO fighter jet shot down a drone early on Tuesday, according to the National Crisis Management Centre, which did not identify the drone's origin. Similar incidents in the Baltic region in recent months have involved Ukrainian drones that Kyiv says were steered across NATO borders by Russian signal jamming.