[Mentalist]

Trump pronounced an "energy ceasefire"

several hours later, the orcs hit a thermal power plant in Kharkiv with jet-powered drones.

[Tiste Simeon]

Seems Ukraine has hit a couple of Yandex data centres and Russian bot activity has dropped quite significantly? I even saw one American politician say something about "Ukraine best not meddle in our midterms" when commenting on this, which is unintentionally hilarious.

[Werthead]

Ukraine has hit three data centres in Russia and, amusingly, Tom's Hardware and some other sites are tracking a significant drop of pro-Russian BS across social media platforms worldwide. 78% of Yandex's cloud network has stopped taking incoming connections.

Trump has announced that Russia has agreed to an energy ceasefire but no information has been passed to Kyiv. Zelensky has informed Ukrainian forces to prepare to hold fire on Russian energy infrastructure. However, three cruise missiles than hit a power plant in Kharkiv, triggering a Ukrainian response.

Multiple Republicans have broken ranks to say they will block any attempt to buy Russian oil, using existing legislation.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

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Zelensky tells Axios the announcement "was news for me. But if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire, Ukraine will agree." [...]

Trump made a similar announcement last month, but neither party confirmed that there was a deal. Both Russia and Ukraine continued attacking energy infrastructure. [...]

"Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

[...] after Trump's announcement, Zelensky told Axios, "If President Trump negotiated it with Putin, please tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready, and we will accept it."

https://www.axios.co...sefire-zelensky

[Mentalist]

Azath Vitr (D, on 11 October 2026 - 06:59 PM, said:

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Zelensky tells Axios the announcement "was news for me. But if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire, Ukraine will agree." [...]

Trump made a similar announcement last month, but neither party confirmed that there was a deal. Both Russia and Ukraine continued attacking energy infrastructure. [...]

"Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

[...] after Trump's announcement, Zelensky told Axios, "If President Trump negotiated it with Putin, please tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready, and we will accept it."

https://www.axios.co...sefire-zelensky

Someone didn't tell Moscow about it, so it's moot already

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

What was Trump even thinking?

Trying to get Ukraine to let their guard down? But his administration should know by now that wouldn't work.

Mislead his supporters into thinking he negotiated a deal?

Is it just that he has dementia?

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: Yesterday, 07:13 PM

[Mentalist]

Azath Vitr (D, on 11 October 2026 - 07:13 PM, said:

What was Trump even thinking?

Trying to get Ukraine to let their guard down? But his administration should know by now that wouldn't work.

Mislead his supporters into thinking he negotiated a deal?

Is it just that he has dementia?

The obvious answer is that he's trying to mess around with the markets, so that people close to him can make some money on the market jumps from the rumour mill.

If you want to be more generous, he keeps trying to make concessions to Moscow to get them to curb their aggression, and each time, Moscow is demonstrably stomping over his statements of "peace", thus demonstrating, quite publicly, that the US has no leverage to actually stop this war.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Mentalist, on 11 October 2026 - 08:05 PM, said:

Azath Vitr (D, on 11 October 2026 - 07:13 PM, said:

What was Trump even thinking?

Trying to get Ukraine to let their guard down? But his administration should know by now that wouldn't work.

Mislead his supporters into thinking he negotiated a deal?

Is it just that he has dementia?

The obvious answer is that he's trying to mess around with the markets, so that people close to him can make some money on the market jumps from the rumour mill.

Hmm, while most markets were closed, there is 24/7 trading for 10-Barrel WTI Crude Futures... though Brent would be more directly impacted. Or perhaps he didn't expect Russia to strike so soon.

Update from the Financial Times:

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The Trump administration is threatening to stop the procurement system that provides Ukraine with weapons in order to press Kyiv to halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, according to officials in Europe.

[...] lobbying European capitals and Kyiv in an attempt to end the attacks on Russian oil refineries. [...] threat[ening] to cut off intelligence sharing and Purl — the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List mechanism for procuring US weapons for Ukraine.

[...] "[...] they are calling everyone [in Europe],"

https://www.ft.com/c...2c-76f635164031

[Werthead]

When all this is long, long over and Trump is in the ground, Zelensky could make a killing by just publishing a book called Conversations with a Fuckwit: This Guy Gave Me More Grey Hairs Than Putin.