UKRAINE, Oct. 13 — Foreign partners didn’t share intelligence warning Ukraine about the Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv on Oct. 12, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, said on his X account.

Zelenskyy added that intelligence data on Russian ballistic missile launches helps warn the civilians about the threat in time. “An early warning about ballistic missiles is precisely what helps prevent people from being killed,” he said.

Russians launched five ballistic missiles on Kyiv civilian infrastructure. The attack killed one and injured 11 people, Vitalii Klychko, Kyiv’s mayor, said.

Earlier, Financial Times said, citing European officials, that the administration of the US President Donald Trump is demanding Kyiv to stop attacks on Russian oil refineries, threatening to halt arms sales and the exchange of intelligence.

The Ukrainian Air Force said it will investigate why Russian ballistic missiles were detected “right during the attack”: “We didn’t have any information about the missile launches from the opponent’s territory.” 

At the same time, Serhii Flash Beskrestnov, electronic warfare expert and technology advisor to Zelenskyy, said that Russians attacked Kyiv with S-400 missiles, which are often recorded just a second before the explosion.

“This isn’t the first time that our partners’ intelligence agencies have failed to detect an S-400 launch. There are certain nuances,” he said. 

Veteran and military expert Oleksii Hetman earlier said that, unlike Iskander missiles that fly up to 100 km high and are easy to detect, S-400 move on low altitude with a speed of 2-2,5 km per second, and the intelligence data about the launch often appear on the radars 20 seconds after it.  

Earlier, Trump announced that he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the return of Russian diesel fuel to the US market and about a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine regarding attacks on oil refineries. Trump repeatedly asked Zelenskyy to reduce attacks on Russian oil refineries.

Zelenskyy was surprised by the announcement of ceasefire but added that Ukraine is ready to accept it if Russia also refrains from attacking Ukrainian energy objects.

Shortly after Trump’s announcement, Russia attacked a power plant in the Pisochyn community near Kharkiv. One of the missiles hit a residential area, killing three and injuring 28 people.

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