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Russia strikes Kharkiv power plant after Trump announces energy ceasefire
Ukraine said Russia struck the CHP-5 power plant in Kharkiv on Oct.
11.
The attack came after U.S. President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump said both sides had agreed, but a senior Ukrainian official said Kyiv had not been informed.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine was ready to accept a ceasefire if it had been negotiated with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He also said Russian forces had struck Ukrainian electricity facilities more than 200 times and gas and oil facilities 17 times over the previous week.
Ukraine has been under martial law since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, and elections are prohibited under Ukrainian law while martial law remains in force.
The sources do not say when or how the proposed ceasefire would begin.
Russia struck Kharkiv’s CHP-5 power plant on Oct. 11, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Ukraine’s Presidential Office said the attack came after U.S. President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump said both parties had agreed to the ceasefire, but a senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent that Ukraine had no information about it.
Zelensky said Russia had carried out more than 200 strikes on Ukraine’s electricity facilities and 17 strikes on gas and oil facilities over the previous week.
- Who
- Russia struck the plant, according to Zelensky.
- What
- The CHP-5 power plant in Kharkiv was hit.
- When
- Oct. 11, 2026, after Trump announced an energy ceasefire.
- Where
- Kharkiv, Ukraine.
- Why
- Not stated.
Donald Trump
Ukrainian government
Ceasefire status
Donald Trump
Trump said an energy ceasefire was effective immediately and that both parties had agreed.
Ukrainian government
A senior Ukrainian official said Ukraine had no information about the ceasefire.
When it begins
Donald Trump
Trump announced that the ceasefire was effective immediately.
Ukrainian government
Zelensky asked when it would begin and said Ukraine was ready to accept it.
Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed.
If President Trump negotiated it with (Vladimir) Putin, please tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready, and we will accept it.
Just now, there was a strike on CHP-5 in Kharkiv — on Kharkiv’s energy infrastructure.
Zelensky told ABC News that a two-month ceasefire arranged by Trump and Putin would allow him to prepare Ukraine for a new presidential election.
Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in a Truth Social post.
Russia struck Kharkiv’s CHP-5 power plant, according to Zelensky.
- Plant
- CHP-5
- Location
- Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Announcement date
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Electricity facility strikes
- More than 200 over the previous week
- Gas and oil facility strikes
- 17 over the previous week
Sources
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