Ukrainian president says the deal is \u2018news to me\u2019 and that Russia is still attacking energy infrastructure. Plus, investigation into continuing mystery of Havana syndrome<\/p>\n
Good morning. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said<\/a> it was \u201cnews to me\u201d after Donald Trump announced a partial ceasefire deal in the Ukraine war. The US president had posted to social media to say: \u201cEffective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n There was no sign that the Kremlin was observing Trump\u2019s ceasefire. According to Zelenskyy, Russian drones took to the sky \u201cthroughout the day\u201d on Sunday and there were several airstrikes, including on energy infrastructure. He said Russia hit a power station in Kharkiv \u2013 the latest of more than 200 strikes during the past week against electricity generation and transmission facilities in Ukraine.<\/p>\n How has the prospect of a deal been welcomed?<\/strong> Despite the unconventional nature of the announcement, the ceasefire appeared to garner support from Ukraine\u2019s key western allies. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said Paris supported a \u201creal energy ceasefire\u201d and the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, said a sustained energy ceasefire was \u201cthe best route to get energy and fuel back into world markets\u201d.<\/p>\n Will Trump\u2019s deal with Putin bring down gas prices?<\/strong> The agreement to temporarily lift sanctions on US imports of Russian diesel will have little \u201cmeaningful\u201d effect on motorists and businesses in the US and overseas, energy and foreign policy analysts have predicted<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ukrainian president says the deal is \u2018news to me\u2019 and that Russia is still attacking energy infrastructure. Plus, investigation into continuing mystery of Havana syndrome Good morning. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said it was \u201cnews to me\u201d after Donald Trump announced a partial ceasefire deal in the Ukraine war. The US president had … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}