Russian attacks killed six people in two Ukrainian cities on Sunday, including three people in a strike on a grocery store in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, where 20 people were injured, Ukrainian officials said. In a separate attack in western Ukraine, officials said a Russian strike killed three more people. The deaths came on the day US President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire he said both sides had agreed to — an agreement Moscow has not confirmed and that Kyiv says Russian forces are not observing.
Where were people killed on Sunday?
Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said two children were among the injured in the Kharkiv grocery-store strike, writing on Telegram, Reuters reported. Pictures posted online showed emergency crews working around badly damaged buildings and burned-out vehicles, Reuters said. Reuters did not name the western Ukrainian city where the second strike killed three people, and no further detail on that attack was available at publication time. Both tolls are Ukrainian officials' accounts, reported by Reuters and carried in The Guardian's war briefing; neither had independent verification at publication time.
President Volodymyr Zelensky also said a drone had hit a power plant in Kyiv on Sunday, causing power outages in the capital, and that the CHP-5 heating and power plant in Kharkiv had been struck, The Guardian reported — his account of continued attacks on energy infrastructure after Trump's announcement.
How did Ukraine's allies respond to the ceasefire announcement?
Britain, France, Canada and the European Commission backed the ceasefire call on Sunday, The Guardian reported. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham called a sustained energy ceasefire the best route to getting energy and fuel back into world markets, and French President Emmanuel Macron said Paris supported a real energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen backed Zelensky, and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Berlin continued to fully support him.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, after a Sunday call with Zelensky, renewed criticism of the US deal to buy Russian diesel, saying it ran in direct opposition to the efforts of Ukraine, Canada and its allies to create peace and stability in Europe, The Guardian reported. The Guardian also reported, citing Financial Times reporting based on European officials, that the Trump administration is threatening to stop the procurement system that provides Ukraine with weapons in order to press Kyiv to halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure — a claim attributed to those officials, with no US confirmation reported.
What else was reported on Sunday?
A Ukrainian drone killed one person in Russia's border Belgorod region on Sunday, regional officials said, according to The Guardian; in the part of Donetsk region held by Russian forces, Moscow-installed officials said one person had been killed in a Ukrainian attack. Russia's defence ministry said its forces had struck a logistics centre in Ternivka in southern Ukraine's Mykolaiv region and a cargo vessel in the Black Sea — the ministry's claim, reported by The Guardian, with no independent confirmation.
Trump's announcement said the ceasefire was effective immediately and that both parties had agreed. Zelensky said the announcement was news to him, that Ukraine supported a ceasefire, and that Kyiv was awaiting details from Washington; Russia had not confirmed any agreement at publication time.
Casualty figures in this article are Ukrainian officials' accounts reported by Reuters and The Guardian, and Russian regional and defence-ministry claims reported by The Guardian; none had independent verification at publication time. The claim that both sides agreed to an energy ceasefire rests solely on President Trump's post. This article was published on a Sunday; markets were closed, so no market snapshot box is carried.
