Ukraine just went back to bombing Russia's oil refineries

Ukraine is going back to bombing Russia's oil refineries.

And President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that's on Russia.

He told the Financial Times a few hours ago that Ukraine is resuming long-range strikes on Russian refineries. Ukraine had paused those strikes for three days. It did that to comply with a ceasefire Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on 11 October.

Zelenskyy told the FT quote "The block is out. We're done."

So what happened to the ceasefire?

Trump said Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an energy ceasefire, effective immediately. But Ukrainian officials say nobody asked them. They say they found out from social media and the press, same as everyone else.

Ukraine paused anyway. Zelenskyy says Ukraine held off hitting Russian energy sites overnight on 11 and 12 October, specifically because Trump had announced the deal.

Russia did not pause anything.

Zelenskyy says Russia hit a power plant in Kyiv and energy sites in Kharkiv that same night, while Ukraine was standing down. Then Russia hit six more Ukrainian energy facilities on 12 October. 33 people were wounded, Zelenskyy says.

So Ukraine held fire for three days. Russia kept bombing the whole time.

Zelenskyy laid this out himself at the Warsaw Security Forum on 12 October, by video link. He said quote "If 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."

That's Zelenskyy making the ceasefire conditional on something Russia never actually agreed to do.

He also pointed out that Trump announced a ceasefire Russia's own president never confirmed.

And Russia's government has said nothing to suggest it feels bound by any ceasefire at all. Sergey Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, said three days ago that Russia would press ahead with its military campaign. He rejected any pause in fighting. He also suggested Zelenskyy does not deserve a break from the war, which sounds like ruling out even a temporary 60-day ceasefire timed around Ukrainian elections.