Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he supports an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia announced by U.S. President Donald Trump Sunday, but strikes continue.
“Ukraine always FULLY supports steps toward de-escalation, the protection of lives, and the decisions needed to end the war and guarantee lasting peace,” Zelenskyy wrote in a post onsocial media.
In an evening address, the Ukrainian president said Russia was still hitting energy infrastructure in Kyiv and in the city of Kharkiv.
“Unfortunately, Ukrainian skies have been infested with Russian ‘shaheds’ all day today,” he said. “There have been glide bomb strikes and strikes on our energy infrastructure too. A power plant in Kharkiv was attacked this evening.”
The presidential office confirmed the Kharkiv attack came after Trump’s ceasefire post.
Zelenskyy said he has discussed the ceasefire with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Finland President Alexander Stubb and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
He said he is awaiting more information from the U.S.
“Ukraine supports the ceasefire,” Zelenskyy said. “And it is important that Russia support it as well.”
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Trump announced the ceasefire on his platform Truth Social Sunday morning but did not give many details.
He said the ceasefire was effective immediately and both Ukraine and Russia had agreed.
“Do not break it!” he wrote.
The White House has not clarified the president’s post or added any detail.
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week” that aired Sunday, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was ready to stop striking Russian refineries if Moscow halted attacks on Ukraine’s energy system.
He then asked Trump to press the Kremlin to agree.
On Saturday, Trump said it was time for Ukraine to get a new president and blamed Zelenskyy for rising diesel prices.
In response, the Ukrainian president said the country could hold elections if Russia agreed to a 60-day ceasefire – Ukraine has been under martial law since Russia’s invasion in 2022 and the country’s Constitution bars elections while it remains in force.
“Give us two months, 60 days off,” Zelenskyy said, but added, “with all respect to President Trump, it’s up to our society, up to our people to choose one or another leader.”
During his discussion with Zelenskyy, Carney criticized Trump’s agreement with Russia, announced Friday, that secures the supply of million of tonnes of diesel fuel to the United States.
“The prime minister was clear: this agreement is in direct opposition to the efforts of Ukraine, Canada, and our allies to create peace and stability in Europe,” a PMO readout said.
“It will provide additional revenue for Russia and help finance its illegal, unjustifiable war against Ukraine.”
Carney also underscored Canada remains willing to expand its Russia sanctions.
Ukraine targets Russia data centre in drone strike
On Sunday, Kyiv pressed its campaign against infrastructure deep inside Russia with a drone attack shutting down a data centre run by Russian technology giant Yandex. This marks the third strike on the company’s facilities in four days.
The attack caused outages across the company’s services in dozens of Russian cities as well as in Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia, according to a Russian news outlet.
Yandex said operations have been “completely halted.” No injuries were reported.
On Thursday, a drone attack took out a Yandex data centre in the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow. A day later, Ukrainian drones hit the company’s major data centre in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow.
Yandex, often described as Russia’s Google, runs the country’s most popular search engine and is heavily involved in Russia’s artificial intelligence development.
Death toll in Zaporizhzhia rises
Zelenskyy said search and rescue operations have ended in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia after a Russian bombing on Saturday.
Twenty-three people were killed in the attack, including four children, authorities said. More than 30 people were wounded.
– With files from The Associated Press and The Canadian Press
Anyone who thinks Putin started this war is conveniently ignoring (or completely unaware of) the facts of what happened from late 2013 – Feb 2022.
A commenter @11:07pm
It’s clear the above is a Russian Cheerleader. In his little mind the aggressive Russian army had to attack little Ukraine, because “EU and Ukraine provoked the conflict” total lies. A simpleton like “A commenter” will repeat what he has been told.
Ben
October 12, 2026 at 12:18 pm
@Fg* 934am. With respect, Germany did the same thing as Russia is doing pretty WW2 and the appeasers let them get away with it. The time to stop Russia is now. At it’s base level, this has nothing to do with the Liberals or Conservatives. It’s about doing what’s right for our children’s future by boxing in rogue states.
And just how do we do that when our ‘government’ has chosen sides and funnels all our money to Ukraine? Most Canadians believe BOTH ARE WRONG!! That we should not be involved AT ALL!! Same as we should be sanctioning the hell out of Israel and Netanyahu and the USA!!
These Liberals are back-boneless, brainless blobs who slither and hiss the word taxessssssss taxesssss!
@A commenter 1107pm. With respect the fact of the matter is that Russia (then USSR) and the US provided security assurances in the Budapest memorandum in exchange for Ukraine giving up her nuclear weapons. Putin attacked Ukraine, thinking he could take the country in a week. The only people profiting from Russia’s illegal invasion are the arms manufacturers.
The simple fact is that Europe and Ukraine provoked this conflict under direction from Joe Biden and co, for no reason other than to profit immensely from it in at least five separate ways. 1) After first getting Europe hooked on cheap Russian energy (including Germany shutting off perfectly good nuclear power plants), the US blew up the Nordstream pipelines (Biden is on video promising that they could) so that the US could sell Europe oil and LNG at vastly inflated prices. 2) profiting from their investments in the defense contractors making all the weaponry being sold and donated to Ukraine. 3) Profiting from inflated grain prices, after preventing Russia from exporting agriculture products and fertilizer via the Black Sea (by denying shipping insurance, despite the grain shipping deal the two sides struck) in the first year or so of the conflict. 4) Embezzlement of most of the aid money. 5) Selling some of the donated weaponry to terrorist groups, for both immediate profit, and to secure a source of weaponry for the next conflict to profit from (for example, where do you think Hamas obtained the weaponry they used on Oct 7 2023?).
A commenter @6:23pm
Your long winded comment on facts is total nonsense. Your a liar from start to finish. I doubt you were ever in Ukraine let alone in 2013. The real facts are that dictator PUTIN (who suffers from little man syndrome) attacked a peaceful Ukraine and got thrown back on their asses by the common people…Ukraine is full of Ukrainians, not Russians. Your obviously a Russian supporter that’s clear, but saying Ukraine is the aggressor is completely wrong. Give your head a shake.
Wayne Kerr
Don’t talk to me about facts, you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. I was in Ukraine in 2013 and learned about all this from direct conversations I had with folks in the eastern parts I visited.
Ukraine didn’t exist until 1917. After creating it, the Soviets transplanted lots of Russians into all of the republics, because they wanted Russian language and culture to replace those of all the individual republics. So eastern Ukraine (now part of Russia) was in fact 95+ % Russian. Crimea was a little different, it was part of Russia until 1958 when it was given to Ukraine as a gift for the latter’s service during WW2 (and its debated whether the soviet leader had the legal authority to do so). So again, 95+% Russian ethnic background.
The Ukrainians have been engaging in genocide against the Russians in the eastern regions since 2013/2014 whether you care to admit this fact or not, and are the true aggressors in this conflict.
A commenter
October 11, 2026 at 10:47 pm
Typical Russian comment. Everything you say is a complete lie. That area of Ukraine is filled with Russians because they didn’t want to live in Russia and were welcomed like family by Ukraine.
When RUSSIA INVADED many moved farther west in Ukraine.
Putin’s intent is to re create the Soviet Union. Stalin didn’t care how many Ukrainians he killed did he?
Or are you going to spew more lies and say it didn’t happen?
@Fg* 934am. With respect, Germany did the same thing as Russia is doing pretty WW2 and the appeasers let them get away with it. The time to stop Russia is now. At it’s base level, this has nothing to do with the Liberals or Conservatives. It’s about doing what’s right for our children’s future by boxing in rogue states.
Maybe if we are lucky Putin will get wacked in Russia amd replaced by someone more sane.
Putin started this war. We should remember the history of the 1930s. It shows shows the danger of allowing an aggressive power-Russia-to use military force to redraw international borders without facing meaningful resistance. If we don’t support Ukraine, Russia will come for us. It has already tested NATO defenses, and tried to mount an attack in Germany. Russia interfered in Brexit and interferes in elections. It’s a bad actor.
This war will not end while Putin remains alive…
Mo’ money mo’ money mo’ money is what its all about. Why we are even funding this is beyond me. Its not our goddamned war!
But Ol’ Cornhole Carney has his hill he will die on. Hopefully soon.
Canada cannot simply afford this anymore. Nor could we ever. Canada cannot to afford to even feed or house and uniform its military let alone feed all the immigrants and house them! WE CANT EVEN HOUSE OUR OWN IN THIS F*CKIN COUNTRY ANYMORE!!
Ya all are blind and stupid if ya all cant see what these infernal Liberals have done and continue to do to this country. AND NO i DO NOT SUPPORT PUKIN EITHER!
Orange man bad.
Anonymous @9pm. “The EU started the war with its imperialistic pursuit?” Did you take a blow to the head recently? Or are you dimwitted? Russia (Little man Putin) attacked Ukraine thinking this was going to be easy. Sadly he was wrong and the war continues with millions of casualties on both sides. The war goes on because of Putin not the EU.
Patience, Putin will get to zelenskyy
Russia went in to areas full of 95+% Russian ethnic background, who declared independence from the Kiev junta because of the illegal coup in 2013/2014. So Russia didnt invade Ukraine, they went in to Russian areas to protect the innocent civilians from the Ukrainians. Too bad it wasn’t 8 years sooner; since 2014 Ukraine’s war criminal government had already killed 13,000 people in the breakaway regions. Anyone would have been justified to go in under those circumstances. And Russia’s restraint during the war has been incredible. It’s only just now that they’re taking their gloves off. The timing is probably because Europe’s financial catastrophe is all but assured now, given that Ukraine has absolutely no chance of paying back the aid loans.
It won`t end and you can blame the EU and Zelenski as he wants more money he won`t stop until Cnada is bankrupt and the the EU will have taxpayers giving them money
Another war he’s going to claim to have ended!
False, the EU started the war with its imperialist pursuit of bringing Europe, a continent Russia stradles along with Asia under its control.
They said they didn’t want to see it, and were ignored rather than spoken to.
EU, failed at basic diplomatic efforts that are costing taxpayers billions throughout the western hemisphere.
Russian Bear? What year do you think it is?
“David Best
October 11, 2026 at 8:39 pm
Russia started the war. Ukraine had the courage to mobilize and fight back….now many years later it’s a stalemate. Hopefully peace can be reached but you have to pay off the Russian Bear one way or another.”
Russia started the war. Ukraine had the courage to mobilize and fight back….now many years later it’s a stalemate. Hopefully peace can be reached but you have to pay off the Russian Bear one way or another.
Anonymous the village idiot. There you are! Always angry because Ben is smarter than you.
The Russian commenters are out in full force today, trying to convince us Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine was somehow legal! It wasn’t.
@ben, carnholes a dicktaster you meant to say
Hopefully one day Putin livestreams zelenskyy demise worldwide
@Anonymous 609pm. Russian commenter spreading more misinformation. Russia and Moscow don’t have real elections. The elections are predetermined by Putin.
We need to stop Russia now. It is testing NATO defenses and continues its illegal war in Ukraine. History has shown if you appease a dictator like Putin, they eventually come for you.
It’s crazy that the news doesn’t mention how Ukraine used 1900 drones to attack Moscow during the final day of elections.
Before the war, Zel was worth less than one million dollars (American). Now he’s worth over twenty million. Get a grip!
Yall figure it out yet?
THEY ARE ALL PLAYING FOR THE SAME TEAM
Bull shi-
@Constantly Censored by Global
@Try This
@Anonymous
Constewpudly 1st when the box with blue square shows up the second time you can disable the box.
@ all of you Russia and the terrorist Putin started the war. The Ukraine isn’t killing or kidnapping like Russia is.
Hahaga zelcucksky
Those Liberal tears are tasty.
Of course Zelenskyy wants a cease fire. That way he can get more munitions into the country. Why would Russia want that? Zelenskyy needs to think about negotiating peace. That is what Russia has wanted all along. Zelenskyy escalated things by attacking deep into Russia. So of course Putin responds. – If Zelenskyy wanted a cease fire, then why the escalation? Not understanding the consequences of his actions
Unfortunately they will not impeach Trump, so the world has to suffer his tantrums and delusions for a while yet.
Zelrnskyy, just give up already. We’re broke and tried of paying for your war!
Can’t wait till Putin takes care of zelenskyy
Funny, I would have said it is the US that needs a new President and that Diesel prices were Trumps fault.
Now all the brain dead Trump supporters will post, just like a warm smelly blast of air!
@A. Actor clown? I thought you were talking about the orange face moron from the Apprentice!
One things for sure if moron Trump says there’s a ceasfire, there definitely wont be a ceasefire. Shouldn’t clown Donnie focus on the war that he launched anyway?
What kind of President would reward Russia, to bomb the Ukraine?
They got to get rid of that actor Clown Zelenskyy.
Can’t have a ceasefire. Carney still
Needs to launder another 28 billion.
Killing innocent people ok… but no blowing up of anything energy related?
trump.. lo..lo with Canada and Ukrin,,
Z and Clowney have a total bromance.