Hours after Trump's 'energy ceasefire', Russia hits Kharkiv power plant
Shortly after Trump's announcement, a Russian strike hit Kharkiv's CHP-5 power plant. On the city's outskirts, a missile killed three people and injured 25.
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Russia struck Kharkiv's CHP-5 combined heat and power plant on Sunday evening – only hours after US President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine. "Just now, there was a strike on CHP-5 in Kharkiv — on Kharkiv's energy infrastructure," President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The Presidential Office confirmed the strike came after Trump's announcement. Trump had written that the ceasefire was effective immediately and that both parties had agreed. A senior Ukrainian official, however, told the Kyiv Independent that Kyiv had no information about any such agreement. There was no initial information on damage to the plant.
On the same day, according to Ukraine's National Police, a Russian missile hit a residential area in Pisochyn on the outskirts of Kharkiv, near a grocery store and several residential buildings. At least three people were killed, including a 16-year-old boy; 25 were injured, among them two girls aged 9 and 13. Earlier, two glide bombs had hit Kharkiv's Nemyshlianskyi district, killing one person and injuring at least eight.
According to Zelensky, Russia struck power generation and transmission facilities more than 200 times over the past week, plus gas and oil facilities 17 times, killing more than 150 people and wounding over 700. Kyiv also reported fresh damage on Sunday: Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a high-voltage line had been damaged and water pressure had dropped across the city. Ukraine is ready to stop attacking Russian energy facilities if Russia does the same, Zelensky said: "Ukraine wants peace, and the question is whether Russia does."