Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the U.S.-brokered “energy ceasefire,” but warned Monday that Moscow must do the same.
If Russia doesn’t agree to the energy ceasefire announced by President Donald Trump on Sunday, Ukraine will respond, Zelenskyy said in a live-streamed address Monday morning.
“If the Americans need it, we are ready to sign these guarantees to make sure they can be trusted, and it’s important that we all see this situation in the same way,” he said, claiming Russia has already violated the energy ceasefire.
“All morning today, more and more Russian jet-powered shaheds have continued to enter our skies over Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. We shoot down many of them, and if we didn’t, there would clearly be even more damage to our energy infrastructure,” he said.
“For now, this is Putin’s answer to Trump.”
It comes after Zelenskyy lamented Russia’s continued drone attacks on Ukrainian energy targets on Sunday, including an attack on a power plant in Kharkiv in Eastern Ukraine close to the Russian border.
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