Russia launches massive overnight attack on Ukraine as Trump insists his "ceasefire" holds

Russia launched a large overnight air and missile attack on Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday, with Ukraine's air force reporting five ballistic missiles, nine guided drones and 108 Shahed-type strike UAVs and decoys.

Poland's Government Centre for Security issued an alert to residents of the Lublin and Subcarpathian voivodeships, warning that Polish military aviation was operating in national airspace; NATO jets were reported scrambled amid the strikes. The Kyiv Post reported two women killed in Kyiv and at least 12 injured, with multiple districts hit — figures from Ukrainian reporting that could not be independently verified.

The attack came as diplomacy moved in opposite directions. Trump insisted Monday that his claimed Russia-Ukraine "energy ceasefire" was in place; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said talks were continuing but rejected Zelenskyy's proposal for a full 60-day truce, saying Russia wanted long-term peace rather than a ceasefire. Zelenskyy, meanwhile, vowed Ukraine would continue retaliatory strikes against Russian oil refineries, defying reported U.S. pressure to stop — U.S. officials have privately pressed Kyiv to halt refinery attacks that Trump blames for record diesel prices, according to anonymously sourced reporting.

Russia's oil point man, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, said Moscow could return diesel exports to levels above those outlined in the Trump-Putin diesel deal — Moscow's assertion.

For Canada, Ottawa's sanctions alignment question sharpens daily between Washington's easing and Brussels' sanctioning; the 1.4-million-strong Ukrainian-Canadian community and Canadian fuel prices are both directly exposed.