Russia, Ukraine trade accusations over infrastructure attacks amid Putin-Trump call

Russia and Ukraine, early Wednesday, accused each other of launching air attacks that sparked fires and damaged infrastructure a few hours after President Vladimir Putin agreed to a limited ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Putin agreed to temporarily stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities but declined to endorse a full 30-day ceasefire, coming well short of what U.S. President Donald Trump sought as the first step toward a permanent peace deal.

Zelenskyy, who had agreed to the full 30-day ceasefire, said after the Putin-Trump call that he would support the limited ceasefire, urging the world to block any attempts by Moscow to drag out the war.

A few hours later, both sides reported attacks.

“Russia is attacking civilian infrastructure and people – right now,” Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, said overnight on Telegram.

According to regional authorities in Sumy in northeast Ukraine, Russia’s drone attacks damaged two hospitals there, causing no injuries but forcing the evacuation of patients and hospital staff.

The governor of the region, Mykola Kalashnyk said early on Wednesday that a 60-year-old man was injured and several houses damaged in Russian drone attack on the Kyiv region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital.

Zelenskyy said that Russia launched more than 40 drones against Ukraine in the hours following the call between Trump and Putin.

In the same vein, authorities in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar said early on Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone attack sparked a small fire at an oil depot located near the village of Kavkazskaya.

The administration of the southern Russian region said in a post on the Telegram messaging app that no one was injured in the fire, which spread across 20 square metres but 30 employees were evacuated.

“The work at the facility has been suspended,” the administration said.