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1. Trump announces energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine but war continues

As the war between Russia and Ukraine nears its fifth anniversary, Trump announced in a Truth Social post Sunday that “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War Between Russia and Ukraine.” After noting that “both parties have agreed,” he warned both countries: “Do not break it!”

In multiple X posts throughout the week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of violating the energy ceasefire while stressing that Ukraine was willing to honor it. In an X post Sunday, Zelensky wrote: “Ukrainian skies have been infested with Russian ‘shaheds’ all day today. There have been glide bomb strikes and strikes on our energy infrastructure too. A power plant in Kharkiv was attacked this evening.”

In an X post Monday, Zelensky alleged that Russia targeted a gas production facility and a gas station in Ukraine.

“Today alone, the Russians have attacked 6 energy facilities in Ukraine. 33 people were wounded across the country,” he wrote in a later X post that day.

“Overnight, the Russians used 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 attack drones and loitering munitions against our energy and critical infrastructure in Kyiv, the Kyiv region, and Kharkiv. A targeted Russian ballistic missile strike specifically against energy infrastructure – the very infrastructure covered by the ceasefire announced by the [American] President,” Zelensky wrote in an X post Wednesday.

When a reporter told Trump outside the White House Monday that “both sides say they have not agreed” to an energy ceasefire, the president pushed back: “They agreed. You know why? Because I said ‘you agree.’ That’s why.”

“That thing has to get settled. That war is a disaster,” Trump added, before citing a figure of 32,000 deaths in the past month. Asked about reports that Russia had violated the ceasefire, he replied, “I’d have to look at it and see because there’s been violations on both sides.”