Ukraine Sends More Than 1,000 Drones at Russia, Hitting a St Petersburg Oil Terminal, and Trump Blames Zelenskyy

Other targets were reported across the wider region. ABC News said a large data centre was also struck and that two transformer substations in Yanino were hit, leaving about 20,000 people without power in the Leningrad region, according to its governor, Alexander Drozdenko. The Russian social network VK said its data centre in the region was attacked but that its services stayed available.

What happened to the energy ceasefire?

Trump announced an "energy ceasefire" between the two countries on 11 October, a development we reported at the time. ABC reported that Ukraine paused refinery strikes under his pressure, while the Kremlin did not abide by the truce. Zelenskyy said Russia attacked Ukrainian energy, oil and gas sites 76 times in the week afterwards and was trying to cause a blackout.

On Sunday, Trump defended his decision to pause new Russia sanctions and criticised the Ukrainian strikes, saying Kyiv's leader did not want the war to end, per Al Jazeera. That pause is the sanctions waiver we reported on earlier. Zelenskyy, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, argued that waiving sanctions strengthens Putin's war effort, and said siding with Moscow would be a historic mistake for Washington even as he said he trusted Trump.

How is Russia responding?

Overnight into Monday, a Russian air strike on Kyiv killed a woman, hit a subway station and damaged a 25-storey residential building, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, with three others injured, according to Al Jazeera. Zelenskyy put the previous week's Russian total at almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs and 66 missiles.

The next test is whether either side treats the October truce as anything more than a headline. With Moscow still striking the Ukrainian grid and Kyiv now hitting Baltic export capacity, the diplomacy Zelenskyy discussed with envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner has less room than it had a week ago.