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Ukraine said it hit the Syzran refinery in Russia's Volga region overnight, underlining that the two nations have not signed up to the energy truce claimed by U.S. President Donald Trump. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Ukrainian forces struck the oil refinery in Syzran, a drone production facility in Taganrog, a drone preparation and launch site in the Oryol region, and targets in the Black Sea. A fire broke out at the Syzran refinery site, and a primary crude processing unit and the tank farm were hit, according to Ukraine's General Staff.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a halt to strikes on energy infrastructure was a good idea without saying whether Russia would accept such a proposal. Zelenskyy said his country would support de-escalation but added that Russia has not stopped striking Ukraine's energy sector, conventional logistics, and critical infrastructure. Trump on Monday blamed Ukraine's strikes on Russian energy infrastructure. Zelenskyy later said no deal had been finalized, though he acknowledged a strong U.S. proposal for a mutual halt to strikes on critical infrastructure.

Satellite images taken by NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System on Tuesday show a fresh heat anomaly at the refinery site, likely indicating a blaze. Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, governor of the Samara region where the facility is located, said earlier on Tuesday that an unnamed industrial facility had been damaged in the drone attack overnight.