He said it is clear that Putin \u201cdoes not read Truth social\u201d, the site that the US president posted his ceasefire declaration on.<\/p>\n
As we have been reporting, Russia\u2019s strikes continued despite the announcement. \u201cImmediately after the post Russia launched a targeted strike on a power plant in Kharkiv, causing further damage to our energy system,\u201d Zelenskyy said, noting that Ukraine<\/a> is facing a wave of escalatory attacks from Russia ahead of the winter.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.40 EDT<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Energy ceasefire could be ‘major step’ towards ending the war if US makes Russia honour it, Zelenskyy says<\/p>\n Zelenskyy says Ukraine<\/a> is waiting for the specific details of the \u201cconversation\u201d between the US and Russia following the latest peace talks.<\/p>\n On Friday, negotiators from the US, Ukraine and European countries also held talks<\/a> in Miami aimed \u2060at \u200breaching agreement on a unified peace proposal \u200bin the coming weeks that could be presented to Russia.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy said in his address that the energy ceasefire could be a \u201cmajor step\u201d toward ending the war if Trump makes sure Putin honours it.<\/p>\n Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the audience via an online video call during the opening ceremony at the Warsaw Security Forum. Photograph: Omar Marques\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.58 EDT<\/p>\n We are ready to respect an energy ceasefire if Russia does, Zelenskyy says<\/p>\n Zelenskyy said Russia is trying to tactically use the period of cold weather against Ukraine<\/a>, targeting the country\u2019s power plants and power grids.<\/p>\n \u201cThis winter if Russia<\/a> does not agree to an energy ceasefire, we will respond,\u201d Zelenskyy said, adding that he supports Trump\u2019s energy ceasefire proposal, but vows that if Russia doesn\u2019t agree to it, then Ukraine \u201cwill respond\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Russia wants us to stop our long-range strikes against its oil refineries and oil exports, then Russia must stop its strikes against our energy system and critical infrastructure, and stop killing our people. This is only fair,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are ready to respect an energy ceasefire if Russia is ready to do the same. We agree, if they agree. And we have already shown that we mean it. Last night, Russian oil refineries were not burning but at midnight a Russian jet powered Shahed strike against a production facility in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Russia struck Kharkiv power plant ‘immediately after’ Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ declaration<\/p>\n Addressing the conference virtually, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> commented on Trump\u2019s \u201csudden but very important\u201d energy ceasefire declaration over the weekend.<\/p>\n He said it is clear that Putin \u201cdoes not read Truth social\u201d, the site that the US president posted his ceasefire declaration on.<\/p>\n As we have been reporting, Russia\u2019s strikes continued despite the announcement. \u201cImmediately after the post Russia launched a targeted strike on a power plant in Kharkiv, causing further damage to our energy system,\u201d Zelenskyy said, noting that Ukraine<\/a> is facing a wave of escalatory attacks from Russia ahead of the winter.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.40 EDT<\/p>\n Moscow wants to ‘ruin existing European security architecture’ to revive Russian domination, Polish PM warns<\/p>\n Speaking at the security conference in Warsaw, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk warned that Russia wants to \u201cdominate\u201d Ukraine<\/a> and poses a grave threat to Nato.<\/p>\n double quotation markRussia wants to ruin the existing security architecture in Europe to make sure that Russian domination comes back to where it was before 1989. We have no doubt about it.<\/p>\n Tusk says his country, Poland, a Nato<\/a> and EU member, has heavily invested in defence to be prepared to counter future security challenges.<\/p>\n Tusk said despite the hybrid threats from Russia<\/a> he is \u201coptimistic\u201d when he thinks of the high level of military readiness for \u201cdifferent scenarios\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the moment when the entire west, Europe<\/a>, the United States must show Russia\u2019s Putin that we are ready for a deterrence policy with even harder measures \u2013 and I mean mainly sanctions,\u201d he told the conference.<\/p>\n Tusk told parliament<\/a> last month that intelligence assessments suggested Russia might launch an attack with drones or missiles on Nato territory in the coming months, as part of efforts to prove that \u201carticle 5 is more theoretical than practical\u201d.<\/p>\n Polish prime minister Donald Tusk speaks during the Warsaw Security Forum in Warsaw, Poland. Photograph: Aleksandra Szmigiel\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a004.26 EDT<\/p>\n EU will welcome Ukraine energy truce ‘when it holds’, bloc’s foreign policy chief says The EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the EU would welcome a truce on striking energy infrastructure between Ukraine and Russia \u201cwhen it holds\u201d, after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire, which Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> said was \u201cnews to me\u201d. double quotation markWe welcome the energy ceasefire when it holds. We haven\u2019t yet seen that also Russia will stick to it.<\/p>\n Kallas said she wanted to see people included in any ceasefire. But an energy truce also had to cover more than just oil refineries in the two countries \u201cwhere Ukraine<\/a> has one and Russia has plenty, so it\u2019s definitely in the benefit of the Russians.\u201d<\/p>\n She did not respond directly to a question about Trump\u2019s diesel deal with Vladimir Putin<\/a>, saying: \u201cThat is why we are, of course, continuing our path. We are now adopting 1,600 listings because we only see that pressure on Russia would work.\u201d<\/p>\n Kaja Kallas speaks to the press during the EU foreign affairs council meeting in Luxembourg. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet\/EPA<\/p>\n The EU will finalise later today sanctions against 1,600 Russian individuals and entities, targeting the military-industrial complex and officials involved in \u201csham elections\u201d in Ukraine\u2019s occupied territories. Trump signed the Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act into law<\/a> earlier this month, which is aimed at depleting Russia\u2019s ability to continue funding the war by targeting its natural gas and oil revenues, as well as countries that continue to buy Russian energy.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Donald Tusk, who is one of the staunchest supporters of Kyiv, said for the entire \u201cwestern world\u201d security is \u201cno longer an academic problem\u201d or a subject of journalistic intrigue, it is a \u201cvery concrete result of Russian aggression on Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n Tusk said anybody who suggests that Ukraine is responsible for the war \u201cgives a valuable gift to the aggressor\u201d.<\/p>\n The prime minister\u2019s comments come after Donald Trump<\/a> blamed Volodymyr Zelenskkyy for stalled peace efforts over the weekend, and said he thought it was time for Ukraine to get a new president.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Poland\u2019s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has just begun addressing the security conference in Warsaw. I will bring you any key lines. You can watch it here live<\/a>.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a003.56 EDT<\/p>\n Who might win the Nobel prize for economics today? The biggest prize in economics, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, will be announced at the Royal Swedish<\/a> Academy of Sciences in Stockholm<\/a> from 10.45am UK time.<\/p>\n Leading the betting on Polymarket<\/a>, at 30% this morning, is David Autor, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Autor is a labour economist, who has examined how technology changes the world of work.<\/p>\n Another potential winner is Ari\u00e9l Pakes, the Thomas Professor of Economics<\/a> at Harvard University, currently at a 19% chance on Polymarket.<\/p>\n Pakes\u2019s work has focused on developing methods to empirically analyse market responses to environmental and policy changes, such as mergers and deregulation.<\/p>\n Third, at 12%, is Susan Athey, the Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Athey, the former consulting chief economist for Microsoft<\/a>, was the first woman to win the John Bates Clark Medal (awarded to the top economist under the age of 40).<\/p>\n There\u2019s also some interest in American macroeconomist and monetary theorist Michael Woodford (currently at 10%) \u2013 he\u2019s one of the architects of modern forward guidance, the idea that central banks can control the economy through influencing public expectations about inflation, rather than just through interest rates.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Power outages reported in Ukraine as energy infrastructure comes under attack<\/p>\n There have been multiple reports of overnight Russian attacks on Ukraine<\/a>, affecting energy infrastructure and hitting civilian areas.<\/p>\n Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said this morning that Russia<\/a> attacked three districts of the region \u201cmore than 10 times\u201d with artillery and drones. The strikes caused fires in the Petrykivka and Mykolaiv areas of the Dniprovskyi district, Hanzha added in his Telegram post, which noted there were no injuries from the attacks.<\/p>\n Residents in several streets in Izyum, south-east of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine<\/a>, were reportedly left without power after a Russian attack damaged power grids.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the governor of Ukraine\u2019s Zhytomyr region, Vitaliy Bunechko, said Russian forces have been \u201crepeatedly shelling\u201d the north of the region \u201csince the evening\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cRailway and energy infrastructure facilities in the Korosten district were under attack,\u201d he added in a Telegram post this morning, noting that the fires were quickly extinguished. Bunechko said there was no information about the victims or their injuries yet.<\/p>\n \u2060At \u2060least 12 \u200bpeople \u2060were \u2060injured in \u200bseveral \u200cRussian \u200cattacks \u200con Ukraine\u2019s Kharkiv \u200con \u200bMonday morning, \u2060mayor Ihor \u200bTerekhov \u200bsaid. Here are some of the latest images being sent to us over the newswires from Ukraine\u2019s second largest city:<\/p>\n Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on 12 October 2026. Photograph: Sofiia Gatilova\/ReutersResidents and rescuers take a shelter in a basement of an apartment building during a threat of another Russian drone strike in Kharkiv. Photograph: Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n We are expecting Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> to speak at the annual security conference in Warsaw alongside Polish prime minister Donald Tusk from 8.30am to 9.30am UK time this morning. Stay with us as we will bring you the key lines from what the two leaders say.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> The fast-moving row between Washington and Kyiv began on Friday when Trump announced he was lifting sanctions on Russian diesel exports<\/a>. He said the move would reduce global and domestic fuel prices before next month\u2019s US midterm elections.<\/p>\n A furious Zelenskyy called the decision \u201cweak\u201d and said it would generate \u201cbillions\u201d in extra revenue for Putin, enabling him to wage war \u201ceven more intensely\u201d. An equally irate Trump said Zelenskyy should \u201cdamn well stop\u201d hitting Russian refineries. Ukraine needed a \u201cnew leader\u201d<\/a>, he said on Saturday.<\/p>\n Map of Ukraine with Russian advances and territory.<\/a><\/p>\n Responding to Trump, Zelenskyy said it was up to Ukrainians to choose \u201cone or another leader\u201d. He told ABC News he was willing to accept Trump\u2019s demands and to organise elections, but only if Putin agreed to a \u201ctotal\u201d 60-day ceasefire.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/a> has reported that US officials have offered the Kremlin lucrative economic incentives in exchange for a ceasefire. They reportedly include releasing billions in Russian sovereign assets that are frozen. The Trump administration also revisited a plan to sell parts of Russia\u2019s energy company, Lukoil. The multibillion deal would benefit Middle Eastern investors, the paper reported<\/a>, some with \u201cbusiness ties\u201d to US negotiators. You can read the full story here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Ukraine says Russia violated Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’<\/p>\n We are restarting our live coverage of the latest developments in Europe after Donald Trump\u2019s announcement of what he called an energy ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Sunday evening that Russian strikes hit Ukrainian energy facilities despite the US president having claimed both sides had agreed to stop hitting each other\u2019s energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n In a post on X, Zelenskyy said a drone had hit a Kyiv power plant on Sunday, leading to power outages in the Ukrainian capital. Shortly after, he said there had been a strike on a power plant in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, adding: \u201cUkrainian skies have been infested with Russian \u2018shaheds\u2019 all day\u201d, referring to a type of Iranian-made drone commonly used in the conflict.<\/p>\n Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he was caught by surprise by Trump\u2019s ceasefire announcement. Photograph: Dan Bashakov\/AP<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Russian \u2060attacks killed six people \u2060in two Ukrainian \u2060cities \u200bon Sunday, including a strike \u2060on a grocery store in Kharkiv, \u200bwhere \u200cthree people died \u200cand 20 were \u200cinjured, Ukrainian officials said. Two children were \u200camong the injured, the regional governor said. In western \u200bUkraine, \u200ca Russian strike \u200bkilled \u200bthree people, officials \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n On Sunday morning Trump had announced that \u201ceffective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine\u201d. \u201cBoth parties have agreed. Do not break it!\u201d he wrote on his Truth Social platform, without further details.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy expressed surprise at the announcement, saying the deal was \u201cnews to me\u201d, while Russia has still not confirmed its agreement. Zelenskyy said on Telegram yesterday that: \u201cUkraine is ready to refrain from striking Russian energy infrastructure \u2013 and we count on the same readiness from Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n In other developments:<\/p>\n Nato Supreme Allied Cmdr Europe Alexus Grynkewich is due to deliver a warning to Russia at a security conference in Warsaw over the alliance\u2019s ability to counter any attack from Moscow.<\/p>\n The Lithuanian \u2060foreign minister Kestutis \u200bBudrys said the EU should designate the Russian \u200cintelligence agency GRU \u200bas \u2060a \u200bterrorist organisation.<\/p>\n The Nobel memorial prize in economics, the final award in this year\u2019s cycle, will be announced at the Royal Swedish<\/a> Academy of Sciences in Stockholm<\/a> from 10.45am UK time.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s surprise ceasefire announcement came two days after he announced a controversial agreement to buy Russian diesel fuel<\/a> \u2013 temporarily lifting US sanactions \u2013 prompting outrage from Ukraine and its European allies, who said it would embolden Moscow.<\/p>\n 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, the Financial Times<\/a> has quoted officials in Europe as saying. They said the US was lobbying European capitals and Kyiv in an attempt to end the attacks on Russian oil refineries.<\/p>\n![\"Jennifer](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791795615_979_Jennifer_Rankin,_L.png\")
Jennifer Rankin<\/p>\n
Arriving at a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday, Kallas said:<\/p>\n
Kallas said EU sanctions \u201cwould work so much better if our partners from the UK and from the US would be aligned with us\u201d. She went on to say that the UK was aligned, \u201cbut if the US would be aligned, if they would enact the Graham bill regarding Russia, we could really put the pressure so that Russia will finish this war\u201d.<\/p>\n![\"Graeme](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Graeme-Wearden,-L.png\")
Graeme Wearden<\/p>\n![\"Luke](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Luke_Harding,_L.png\")
Luke Harding<\/p>\n