{"id":3802,"date":"2026-09-14T23:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:00:58","slug":"trump-says-russia-ukraine-agree-to-halt-energy-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/?p=3802","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Russia, Ukraine agree to halt energy hits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" data-id=\"3803\" src=\"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/International-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/International-2.png 450w, https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/International-2-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington, In a major development, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop attacking each other&#8217;s energy targets, announcing reciprocal commitments without giving a start date, duration or enforcement details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise!&#8221; Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement offered no details about the facilities covered or whether either country had attached conditions. It did not say whether the commitments had taken effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump also blamed the Russia-Ukraine war for most of the rise in global diesel prices, rather than Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The World&#8217;s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia\/Ukraine War, not Iran,&#8221; the US President said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his Truth Social post, Trump gave no figures or timeframe for the price increase and offered no supporting data for his assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did not elaborate on the reference to Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The social media post did not announce a broader ceasefire or indicate that fighting beyond attacks on energy targets would stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump did not identify who negotiated the arrangement or describe any preceding talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No statements from the Russian or Ukrainian governments accompanied the material provided for this report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The terms of the commitments could not be established from Trump&#8217;s announcement alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Energy infrastructure has been heavily damaged during Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A United Nations Development Programme assessment documented extensive damage to Ukraine&#8217;s electricity networks and generating facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN human rights monitors have documented disruptions to heating, water supplies, healthcare and schooling following attacks on Ukraine&#8217;s energy system. They have also reported Ukrainian attacks on electricity and heating infrastructure in Russia&#8217;s Belgorod region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, In a major development, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop attacking each other&#8217;s energy targets, announcing reciprocal commitments without giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-display","category-international","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}