Zelensky ends three-day pause on refinery strikes, saying Russia ignored Trump's energy truce

Ukraine will resume strikes on Russian oil refineries, President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Financial Times. "The block is out. We're done," he said, according to Bloomberg's summary of the interview. He said Ukraine had paused energy strikes for three days after President Trump announced on October 11 that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an "energy ceasefire." Zelensky said Russia kept attacking during that period. The Kyiv Independent, citing Zelensky, reported more than 200 Russian strikes on electricity and transmission facilities and 17 on gas and oil sites since then. Moscow has not confirmed that it ever accepted a truce.

The New York Times reported that one large attack left 600,000 people in Kyiv without power. It also reported that a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program used by Ukraine appeared to be restricted without warning. Elon Musk said the US government, not SpaceX, controls any limits on Ukraine's Starshield service, Euronews reported. Overnight, a Russian attack on Kropyvnytskyi killed three people and injured six, according to the regional governor, who said the attack targeted logistics, transport and industrial sites.

Inside Russia, the independent Telegram channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported missile alerts in Rostov-on-Don and in the Volgograd, Voronezh, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk and Samara regions, as well as Chuvashia and Tatarstan. The same post said flights were restricted at the Volgograd, Saratov and Penza airports. The state agency TASS reported that Ryazan cancelled classes at schools and kindergartens in two districts because of drone attacks. Local Ryazan media described a large-scale drone raid. Neither side has independently confirmed damage to refineries overnight.