Energy truce between Ukraine and Russia in chaos after Trump's announcement

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced an energy truce between Russia and Ukraine, with a mutual suspension of attacks on facilities and infrastructure in the sector. The announcement was meant to represent a partial truce in a conflict that for months has been hitting power grids and refining facilities in both countries hard. But in the hours that followed, the news turned into a diplomatic case, with conflicting accounts from Kyiv, Moscow and the White House itself.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had not been informed of the existence of a truce and was awaiting concrete details on the terms of the agreement. The statement comes from a direct source: the Ukrainian president himself, who found himself publicly commenting on an announcement made by Washington without prior coordination with Kyiv. It is a detail that carries weight, because it concerns precisely Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, a recurring target of Russian attacks in recent weeks.

Complicating the picture further, Trump himself subsequently accused both Ukraine and Russia of violating the ceasefire he had announced. It is not clear, based on the information available so far, which specific episodes the U.S. president attributes to the two sides: the accusation remains for now generic, but public and directed at both parties to the conflict.

On the Russian side, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov struck a more cautious tone, speaking of contacts still underway on halting bombardments of energy sites. Peskov also clarified what, in his view, Moscow’s objective is in the negotiation:

“We don’t want a truce, but a lasting peace” — Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman

The statement shifts the focus from the sector-specific ceasefire announced by Trump to a broader negotiation, which the Kremlin evidently considers a priority over an agreement limited to energy infrastructure alone. It is a distinction that leaves open the question of what, in concrete terms, remains of the truce announced by the U.S. president: if contacts are indeed underway, as stated by Peskov, it is not clear whether they concern Trump’s specific proposal or a different negotiating framework.

The result, just hours after the initial announcement, is a sequence of statements that overlap without forming a coherent picture: a Ukrainian president who says he does not know, a U.S. president who accuses both sides of violating an agreement whose operational details have not been disclosed, and a Russian spokesman who speaks of contacts without confirming or denying the terms described by Washington.

It is not the first time, in the course of the conflict, that an announcement of a partial truce has generated more confusion than clarity in the immediately following hours. But the speed with which the three parties involved provided differing accounts of the same facts — the existence of the truce, its violation, its contents — signals how much the diplomatic channel opened by Trump is, at the moment, more a declaration of intent than a verifiable agreement on the ground.

At present there are no, from the available sources, independent confirmations on the operational details of the truce announced by Trump, nor a timetable for an official clarification between the parties.