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Trump announces energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine
President Trump says Russia and Ukraine have agreed to stop attacking each other's energy infrastructure, but provides no details on the deal.
In brief
President Trump says Russia and Ukraine have agreed to stop attacking each other's energy infrastructure, but provides no details on the deal. Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine on October eleventh, twenty twenty-six, but neither side immediately confirmed the agreement or its terms…
Trump announces energy ceasefire
U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an energy ceasefire, taking effect immediately. He offered no details on its terms.
“Do not break it!”
Zelenskyy confirms Ukraine's support
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine supports the ceasefire and is awaiting details from the American side. Moscow did not immediately comment.
“We are awaiting details from the American side.”
Zelenskyy's condition for stopping strikes
In an interview broadcast Sunday, Zelenskyy said Kyiv was ready to stop striking Russian refineries if Moscow halted attacks on Ukraine's energy system.
Trump pressures Zelenskyy on elections
Trump said Saturday it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting Zelenskyy has not done enough to end the war and blaming him for high diesel prices.
Zelenskyy proposes sixty-day ceasefire for elections
Zelenskyy said Ukraine could hold elections if Russia agreed to a sixty-day ceasefire. He said Ukraine would be ready to accept whatever choice its people made.
“Give us two months, 60 days off. Total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections.”
Legal barriers to wartime elections
Ukraine has been under martial law since February twenty twenty-two. The Ukrainian Constitution bars elections while martial law remains in force and allows Zelenskyy to remain in office until a new president is sworn in.
Ukraine strikes Yandex data center
A Ukrainian drone attack on Sunday shut down a data center in Vladimir, east of Moscow, run by technology giant Yandex. It was the third strike on the company's facilities in four days.
Yandex outages disrupt Russian services
The drone attack caused outages across Yandex services, leaving users in dozens of Russian cities and in Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia unable to order taxis or access banking services.
“Operations at the data center have been completely halted. There were no injuries.”
Trump's diesel deal with Putin
Trump struck a deal with Putin on Friday to buy diesel from Moscow to address high fuel prices ahead of U.S.midterm elections.Ukrainian and European officials said it will help pay for Russia's war effort.
Russian bombing kills twenty-three in Zaporizhzhia
Search and rescue operations ended in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia after a Russian bombing on Saturday. Zelenskyy said twenty-three people were killed, including four children, and more than thirty were wounded.
Here's the gist
Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine on October eleventh, twenty twenty-six, but neither side immediately confirmed the agreement or its terms.
