By Owen Evans

Ukraine will continue its long-range strikes against Russia if Moscow doesn’t accept an energy truce, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday.

Speaking via a video link at the Warsaw Security Forum, Zelenskyy said that since he learned about the truce—announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on the Truth Social platform on Sunday—Ukrainian energy infrastructure has been hit by Moscow’s air strikes.

“This winter, if Russia does not agree to an energy ceasefire, we will respond,” he said.

In an Oct. 11 Truth Social post, Trump said that Ukraine and Russia had agreed ‌to what he described as an “energy ceasefire.”

“Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he said.

Zelenskyy said that immediately after the post, Russia launched a targeted strike on a power plant in Kharkiv.

“Yesterday, we were all hardly surprised that after a sudden but very important post from the American president saying that he had secured an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, at that very moment Russian jet-powered Shah drones were flying in our skies,” said Zelenskyy.

He added that large parts of Kyiv had no water supplies and electricity and that repair crews were working to restore power after a strike on a power plant.

In an Oct. 12 post on X, Zelenskyy said that 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. This is only fair.”

He said that Ukraine is “ready to respect an energy ceasefire if Russia is ready to do the same—we agree if they agree.”

He said there “were Russian violations of the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump.”

Zelenskyy said he is “waiting for the details of the conversation between the Americans and the Russians.

“We are waiting to see what specific steps the Americans are ready to take.”

Russia is expected to immediately begin shipping diesel to the strained global market, with the United States temporarily removing sanctions placed on the country over its war with Ukraine to try to ease prices for Americans, Trump announced on Oct. 9.

The agreement was reached after speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Trump said in a Truth Social post.

More than 300,000 tons of diesel will be shipped immediately, the U.S. president said.

Another 500,000 tons of diesel are expected in November, followed by a million tons in December, to help make up for supply lost due to the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran.

Zelenskyy questioned the deal’s potential impact on fuel prices on Monday.

“If Russia accounts for 2.2 percent of global diesel supplies, what impact can it have on the price?” he said.

“That’s how negligible it is. And if we don’t give Putin opportunities, his influence in other areas will be just as negligible. He is simply taking advantage of the fact that others want dialogue with him, even though there is no equality and no fairness in it.”

Kremlin ​spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected Zelenskyy’s proposal for a ceasefire on Monday.

“In the Kremlin, both President [Vladimir] Putin and officials at other levels have repeatedly stated that we do not ‌want a ceasefire,” ⁠said Peskov.

“We want long-term peace and are prepared to do everything possible to achieve it.”

Jill McLaughlin and Reuters contributed to this report.