Zelensky: Ukraine spared Russian energy sites overnight, but Russia broke truce

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on 12 October that Ukraine did not attack any energy facilities in Russia the previous night because of the "energy ceasefire" announced by US President Donald Trump, and accused Russia of violating the truce with fresh strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure. All the claims below are Zelensky's; they could not be independently verified, and Russia has not confirmed that any truce is in place.

"We agree if they agree"

In a speech at the Warsaw Security Forum, posted on his Telegram channel, Zelensky said Kyiv's offer was "honest and clear": Ukraine is ready to observe an energy ceasefire if Russia is ready to do the same. "We agree if they agree," he said, adding that Ukraine had "already proved that these are not just words."

"Russian refineries did not burn overnight," he said. According to Zelensky, a Russian jet-powered Shahed drone struck a gas production facility in Ukraine at midnight, and several drones hit an ordinary petrol station. Repair crews, he said, are still working to fix damage from the previous day's attacks.

He said new Russian jet-powered Shaheds continued to enter Ukrainian airspace over Kyiv and other cities throughout the morning. "Russia violated the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump," he said.

Fox News interview

In an interview with Fox News, Zelensky said: "Last night we did not attack any energy facilities on Russian territory, because President Trump said there would be an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. We did not attack while Russia was hitting our petrol stations, energy infrastructure and other facilities."

He described the Russian strikes as "Putin's answer to President Trump" and said Moscow had sent "very clear signals" that it "knows nothing about an energy ceasefire." He added that Russia "always finds reasons not to stop this war", which is why, in his view, more pressure on Russia is needed.

Zelensky also said Ukraine never announces what it will do next in its operations. Kyiv, he said, is waiting for details of the conversation between the Americans and the Russians and for "concrete steps" Washington is ready to take.

Context: a truce with disputed scope

Trump announced the energy ceasefire on 11 October, and Zelensky said then that Ukrainian forces had received orders to comply. Axios reported that Kyiv was not informed in advance. Later that day, Zelensky said Russia struck the CHP-5 thermal power plant in Kharkiv hours after the announcement.

A White House representative told Axios the ceasefire means only that Russia and Ukraine stop attacking each other's oil refineries, and the report noted that Ukraine has just one refinery. That narrower reading differs from Zelensky's earlier proposal of halting strikes on energy infrastructure on both sides, and it is unclear whether the petrol station and gas production facility he cites would fall under the truce as the White House describes it.

Ukraine's General Staff said earlier on 12 October that Russia launched one Kh-59 missile and 121 drones overnight, with air defence downing or suppressing 89 of the drones.

No details of the US–Russia contacts Zelensky referred to have been published, and Moscow has not publicly responded to his claims.