Trump Claims Ukraine And Russia Have Reached An Energy Ceasefire. Zelensky Says He Was Unaware Of Any Deal.

President Donald Trump has announced that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to stop targeting each other's energy infrastructure, a deal that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reports being completely unaware of.

"Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" Trump posted to his Truth Social account on Sunday.

Zelensky told Axios that the deal "was news to me. But if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire. Ukraine will agree."

"If President Trump negotiated it with Putin, please tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready, and we will accept it," the Ukrainian leader declared. Zelensky also confirmed after the interview that he had spoken to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte about the agreement, reiterating that Kyiv was "awaiting from the American side" but was fully supportive of "steps towards de-escalation."

French President Emmanuel Macron, a staunch ally of Zelensky's, also signalled his support "for a genuine energy truce" but warned that Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure continued and that Paris would "continue to stand by Ukraine and President Zelensky."

If Trump has negotiated such a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin without the participation of the Ukrainians, it would represent the second time Kyiv has been snubbed by Washington in just a matter of days, as Trump announced on Friday that he and Putin had agreed to lift U.S. sanctions on Russian diesel in exchange for the Kremlin releasing diesel to supply the American and global marketplaces.

The White House's rhetoric towards Kyiv has also become increasingly adversarial, as Trump called for Zelensky to be replaced on Saturday over the latter's unwillingness to stop striking Russian oil refineries, which Trump claimed were primarily responsible for rising global and domestic fuel prices, a phenomenon which most experts attribute to the hostilities between the U.S. and Iran.

Ukraine's European allies have, in response to the news of the U.S.-Russia deal, reaffirmed their commitment to helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia; Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has warned that Moscow may seek to intensify hybrid attacks against Kyiv's European partners, said on Sunday that he assured Zelensky that he could "count on the full solidarity of Poland and Europe with the Ukrainian people."

Both Russia and Ukraine have intensified attacks on each other's infrastructure, be it civil, technological or energy-related.

Just hours after Trump demanded that Ukraine stop attacking Russian refineries, Ukrainian drones attacked a date center belonging to Russian technology company Yandex, which has been dubbed "Russia's Google."

The attack may have been in retaliation to a series of Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilian and energy infrastructure on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.