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Zelenskyy says Ukraine honoured Trump's energy ceasefire while Russia continued bombing Ukrainian energy facilities. He also linked Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres to a decline in bots spreading hate and division online.

Ukrainian drones struck three major Yandex data centres in Russia over four days, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport and cloud infrastructure, following Russian strikes on eight Ukrainian companies’ data centres.

As Russia prepares another winter assault on Ukraine’s power grid, Greece and Spain are withholding desperately needed Patriot missiles. Meanwhile, Trump’s war with Iran has depleted US interceptor stocks, he has suspended deliveries to Ukraine and US retains veto power over European transfers.

Oil prices fell despite sustained Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries, then surged after US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Trump blamed Ukraine for rising fuel costs, despite US government data showing prices soared after the war disrupted oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

An analysis of punishment-based coercion, examining how modern and historical military campaigns target civilian infrastructure and use siege tactics as bargaining power to break an opponent's willingness to fight.