On Sunday, Trump announced that the two warring parties had reached what he described as an agreement to halt strikes on energy infrastructure, stating that the halt was to take effect without delay. Zelensky posted on X that Ukraine stood ready to observe the ceasefire, adding that Russia's adherence to the same terms remained an open question and that his government was awaiting further details from the United States.
Ukraine's stated position, as conveyed by Zelensky, has been that any measures taken must move the conflict toward a lasting end rather than merely manage it — with the country prepared to mirror a Russian halt on strikes against energy infrastructure, should Moscow choose to pursue one. Ukraine's president put forward a conditional halt to strikes on Russian oil-processing facilities on Sunday, tying any such pause to a reciprocal end to Moscow's attacks on Ukrainian power and energy networks.
On multiple occasions, Trump has called on Ukraine to halt its drone and missile strikes against oil-refining facilities inside Russia. The disclosure followed a period of reported friction between Trump and Zelensky, whose relationship had drawn attention in diplomatic circles.
France's position in favour of halting strikes on energy infrastructure was set out by Macron, who tied any such arrangement to terms that Ukraine would need to find workable. Macron, posting on X, stated that Russia continued to deny any involvement while stepping up strikes on Ukrainian power and heating networks in the preceding hours, and pledged that France would maintain its backing for Ukraine and Zelensky.
Separately, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen conveyed her full backing to Zelensky following a phone call with him on Sunday. Von der Leyen expressed full backing for a ceasefire extension covering food supply chains and energy infrastructure across both Ukraine and Russia, while describing the conflict as having moved into a new phase — one she characterised as markedly more grim — with the two sides still trading strikes daily as the war reaches its fifth year.
Now entering its fifth year, the war between the two countries has brought a steady rise in attacks on power grids, transport links, and related civilian infrastructure — a pattern documented on both sides of the front line, with Russia's large-scale military campaign against Ukraine marking the conflict's most recent and expansive phase.
Yandex, the Moscow-based technology group, suspended operations at one of its data centres in the region after the facility was struck by drones that Ukrainian forces were reported to have launched. Ukrainian authorities stated that the installations chosen as targets were ones whose operations feed directly into the financing of Russia's military effort.
Four districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, located in the country's southeast, saw six people wounded when overnight attacks were carried out, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Forty-eight hours had not yet passed when reports placed the toll from strikes in Zaporizhia at 23 fatalities, four of them children, with Russian forces held responsible by available accounts.
Airstrikes on Kyiv claimed four lives in the week prior, part of an aerial campaign that had been intensifying in the weeks before that. A ballistic strike on a residential building in Pryluky, a town lying to the east of Kyiv, claimed the lives of 22 people earlier that week, among them five children.
