Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Tuesday that Ukraine received no advance notice from its Western partners ahead of a Russian missile strike on the capital, while US President Donald Trump maintained that intelligence continued to flow from Washington to Kyiv even as he pushed for an end to Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities.
Overnight, for the first time since Trump's weekend announcement of an "energy ceasefire," Ukrainian energy infrastructure went untouched by Russian strikes, though ballistic missiles and drones were directed at transport and logistics networks.
Several news organisations — among them a television outlet noted for its journalistic standing — reported that Washington had conveyed to Kyiv that continued weapons transfers and intelligence sharing depended on Ukraine halting its attacks against Russian oil-processing infrastructure.
According to analysts and officials, advance notice of incoming missile attacks reaching Kyiv depends substantially on intelligence provided by Washington.
At a Tuesday briefing with reporters, Trump stated that intelligence-sharing with Ukraine remains active and that his administration is engaged with both Kyiv and Moscow in pursuit of a ceasefire, adding that assistance and intelligence provision to Ukraine are ongoing. When asked whether Russia had broken the ceasefire terms, Trump indicated he would address that at a later point. On the separate question of whether ceasefire-related diesel revenue could be directed toward weapons procurement, he stated that the arrangement covered fuel only and that those funds were being released into the broader global market.
Zelenskiy told reporters that, following Trump's announcement on Sunday, Ukraine had carried out no strikes on Russian oil refineries. Zelenskiy stated on X that advance notice of Russian ballistic missile launches — the kind that typically reaches Kyiv from allied sources before an attack — had not come through ahead of an overnight strike in which five projectiles hit civilian infrastructure, adding that such advance notice has a direct bearing on preserving lives. He did not draw any explicit connection between the absence of that notice and threats made by the United States.
Warning sirens in Kyiv were not activated until after a number of detonations had already taken place across the city that Monday evening.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Sybiha told reporters that flows of US military intelligence to the country had continued. At the Warsaw Security Forum, Sybiha pointed to the category of weapon Russia had deployed as the reason behind the delay.
Drone strikes targeting Russian oil-refining infrastructure have become one of the primary tools through which Ukrainian forces aim to degrade the opponent's capacity to sustain its military operations. On more than one occasion, Trump pointed to Ukrainian strikes as the source of a domestic fuel price rise this year — the very same attacks that prompted Moscow to suspend its diesel exports. Pricing pressures tied to the conflict in Iran drew the bulk of analytical attention, with a majority of those commentators pointing to that military engagement as the dominant driver behind the increase.
Six Ukrainian energy facilities were targeted in attacks attributed to Russia on Monday. No determination could be made about whether the strikes during that period had intentionally spared energy infrastructure. When the Kremlin's spokesperson was asked about the energy ceasefire, the response was limited to confirming that talks between the parties remained active, with no additional information made available.
Four people lost their lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, after aerial bombardments hit the area, while injuries were reported across multiple other parts of the country, according to Ukrainian authorities. An inquiry was opened by the air force into why surveillance alerts had not reached them before the strike.
Fabian Hoffmann, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies specialising in missile systems, noted that Ukraine's European partners hold a constrained capacity to substitute the satellite-based early-warning data the United States provides for tracking Russian missile launches — a capability he described as unmatched globally and dependent entirely on American infrastructure. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Sybiha pointed to Washington's request that Kyiv pause strikes on Russian oil facilities as evidence of a shift in Ukraine's negotiating position, drawing a contrast with the remark attributed to Trump during a tense White House encounter with Zelenskiy that Ukraine held no leverage, and arguing that within roughly two years the situation had moved from a posture of holding no cards to one of choosing not to play them. Sybiha described the outcome as an accomplishment.
Zelenskiy put forward Ukraine's stance once more, indicating that Kyiv stood prepared to take reciprocal measures toward lowering tensions while urging allied partners to apply pressure on Russia.
