President Donald Trump said that, effective immediately, there is an energy ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and that both parties have agreed. He posted the statement on Truth Social around 10:16 a.m. EDT on Oct. 11. The White House account later posted an image of the statement. No White House release, Defense Department notice, or State Department statement posted Sunday defines the terms or names the facilities or strikes the ceasefire covers.
“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. President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump wrote in the post. The White House account posted the same language with an image of the statement at 2:36 p.m. The post does not cite a signed agreement, a duration, or a counterpart statement. No accompanying document appears on whitehouse.gov.
The post follows the Treasury diesel license by two days. The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued General License No. 135 on Oct. 9. The license text authorizes transactions otherwise prohibited by the Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations and the Ukraine-/Russia-Related Sanctions Regulations that relate to the sale, delivery, offloading, or importation, including into the United States, of diesel fuel of Russian origin, through 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on April 7, 2027. It does not mention a ceasefire, energy infrastructure, or Ukraine. An Oct. 5 White House fact sheet cited the Russia-Ukraine war as a driver of restricted global diesel supply and described a European reserve release of 100 million barrels and a dyed-diesel tax deferral. It did not announce a ceasefire.
Ukrainian officials have previously described strikes on Russian energy facilities as a wartime response. A statement on the presidential website dated Oct. 9, 2025, quoted Zelenskyy saying Ukraine’s data showed Russia’s gasoline shortage at up to around 20 percent of needs after Ukrainian strikes, and that a ban on gasoline and diesel exports was in force in Russia. He said the strikes answered Russian attacks on Ukrainian critical infrastructure. No new statement on that site posted Sunday addresses an energy ceasefire. An Oct. 10 item on the same site is titled as a discussion between Zelenskyy and Finnish President Alexander Stubb of additional Russian revenue from oil-product exports. The page does not appear to confirm a ceasefire.
The sanctions law signed three weeks ago conditions the end of pressure on Russia. A White House notice said the president signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on Sept. 18. The act, H.R. 5334, expands sanctions on Russia. Member releases describe termination conditions that require a presidential certification that Russia has signed a peace agreement accepted by the free and independent Government of Ukraine and has ceased military hostilities and efforts to subvert the Ukrainian government. No such certification appears on a White House page. The energy ceasefire post does not cite the act or state that the certification has been made.
Members who advanced that law have posted on Russian energy and Ukraine. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick wrote Saturday that Congress and the American people stand 100 percent behind Zelenskyy and that Russia is squarely to blame for the war. Rep. Don Bacon wrote that Ukraine should destroy Russia’s diesel production infrastructure and that Trump is weak on Putin. Those posts are on their accounts. Neither names an energy ceasefire or a signed agreement.
The administration’s other energy documents treat supply as a domestic and production matter. An Oct. 7 proclamation designated October 2026 as National Energy Dominance Month and described record U.S. oil and gas production, a Venezuela agreement, and measures to lower costs. It does not mention a Russia-Ukraine energy arrangement. The Truth Social post is the first public statement of an energy ceasefire.
“Energy ceasefire,” “both parties have agreed,” and “do not break it” are Trump’s. The Oct. 9 license, the Sept. 18 signing of the Graham Act, the absence of a certification under that act, the Oct. 5 fact sheet, and the lack of a White House or Ukrainian presidential site confirmation of the ceasefire are the documents. The gap is between a presidential social-media announcement of an immediate energy ceasefire and the absence of published terms, a counterpart confirmation on an official site, or a department notice describing what has stopped.