Trump says Ukraine, Russia agree to halt attacks on energy infrastructure

President Donald Trump said Monday that Ukraine and Russia have agreed to stop striking each other’s energy infrastructure, announcing a limited pause as both countries intensify long-range attacks far from the front lines.

“Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy Targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. He did not provide details on when the agreement would take effect, how long it would last or how compliance would be monitored.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered a more cautious account. He said Ukraine is prepared to stop attacks on Russian targets if its partners can ensure Moscow also stops striking Ukrainian electricity facilities, other energy sites, critical infrastructure and routes used to move food. Zelenskyy said he was not yet convinced Russia would honor such an arrangement.

Neither Kyiv nor Moscow had separately announced a finalized agreement immediately after Trump’s statement.

Earlier Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov welcomed Trump’s call for Ukraine to stop attacks on Russian fuel infrastructure, saying Moscow supported calls to end strikes on what he called civilian economic facilities. The Kremlin at that point did not announce that Russia had entered a new reciprocal ceasefire.

The potential agreement comes as attacks on energy and economic infrastructure have become an increasingly important part of the war.

Ukraine has expanded long-range drone strikes against Russian oil refineries and other energy facilities in an effort to reduce Moscow’s fuel production and increase the economic cost of the war. The campaign has contributed to fuel shortages inside Russia and cuts to Russian fuel exports. Trump on Sunday publicly urged Zelenskyy to stop hitting facilities tied to diesel production, saying the attacks were worsening a global fuel shortage.

Russia, meanwhile, has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s power system, heating facilities and other civilian infrastructure with missiles and drones.

A United Nations report released in June found that Russian forces carried out at least 423 attacks on Ukrainian electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities between October 2025 and March 2026. The U.N. also documented at least 74 attacks on heating and combined heat-and-power facilities during that period. The strikes caused prolonged outages affecting homes, hospitals, schools and other essential services.

Those attacks have again intensified as Ukraine prepares for winter. Russian strikes in recent weeks have hit energy, transportation and other infrastructure, while Ukrainian forces have continued targeting Russian refineries and industrial sites.

The latest understanding would not amount to a broader ceasefire. Fighting along the front could continue, as could attacks against military targets outside the energy sector unless the sides agree to wider restrictions.

It would also not be the first attempt to establish a limited energy truce.

Russia and Ukraine temporarily halted attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure in January after a request from Trump, but the two governments quickly gave different accounts of how long the moratorium would last. Kyiv said the pause was expected to run for a week, while the Kremlin indicated it would expire after only several days. Other attacks continued during that period.

The new proposal could provide relief to Ukraine’s battered power network and Russia’s strained fuel sector if both sides follow through.

For now, however, the scope and enforcement of the arrangement remain unclear, and Zelenskyy has made Ukraine’s participation dependent on reciprocal Russian restraint.