Russia pounds Ukrainian cities, spares energy targets for first time since Trump 'ceasefire'

Russia hit no Ukrainian energy targets on Tuesday for the first time since US President Donald Trump's weekend announcement of an "energy ceasefire", while hammering cities' transport and logistics overnight with ballistic missiles and drones. Russia's defence ministry, in its daily summary of overnight strikes, made no mention of Ukrainian energy facilities. A Kremlin spokesman, asked about the energy ceasefire, would only say that contacts were ongoing, but declined to provide any further details. However, one missile came down just over a kilometre from a plant providing heating to much of the city of Lviv, in the west. Trump's ceasefire announcement on Sunday came two days after his declaration of a deal that lifted US sanctions on Russian diesel exports to allow Russia to supply almost 2 million metric tons of diesel, a bid to lower US fuel prices. Reuters and other media outlets have reported that US officials have threatened to cut off intelligence sharing and weapons sales to Ukraine unless it halts its strikes on Russian oil refineries. Watch more'It's clear that Moscow is just playing with Washington,' analyst says President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Ukraine...