WORLD NEWS: A Ceasefire Nobody Was Told About | October 12, 2026

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 12, 2026. The President announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, effective immediately, both parties agreed. Kyiv says it has no information about it and doubts Moscow was told either. Tonight's report: • "Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE." A senior Ukrainian official says Kyiv has no information about it. Zelensky: "please tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready, and we will accept it." The Kremlin has not confirmed it either• Zelensky's answer explains the whole dispute: "In Ukraine, we have just one oil refinery. And it was badly damaged by Russian strikes long, long ago." A refinery-only truce costs Russia a network and Ukraine almost nothing it still has• The FT reports the US threatened to halt weapons procurement for Ukraine over strikes on Russian energy. Neither government has confirmed it and we say so• Ten killed, 73 injured across Ukraine in a day. 121 Shahed drones overnight, 76 jet-powered. The regional figures add to 69 of 73 and we tell you so rather than hoping you don't add them up• Pisochyn, outside Kharkiv: a missile on a residential area and a grocery store. A boy of 16, a woman of 19, a woman of 51 dead. 25 injured including girls of 13 and 9• The EU formally adopts close to 1,600 new Russia sanctions listings. Kallas: more than half tied to ballistic missile production chains• Riyadh's airport struck again, a Pakistani man killed and 11 hurt. The WSJ reports Saudi Arabia is running short of interceptors. No figures published, no Saudi comment, and we label it as their reporting• Iran's foreign minister phones his Saudi counterpart and offers to mediate with the Houthis. IRNA calls it the first known contact since the escalation• Israel: Channel 12 reports police have evidence the PM's chief of staff removed 30 classified records. The report is unsourced and we say so. A transcript has him asking a stenographer to change an October 7 timestamp• In London, PM Andy Burnham says it is "clear" Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit vote. He gave no evidence, and he did not say it decided the result. One headline says "Russia behind Britain's Brexit vote." That is not what he said Followed by "From the Homefront" — Dorothy Wilson makes devil's food cake, in print since 1890, and explains why the red colour is chemistry rather than dye. Not opinion. Where accounts conflict, both are given. The "Winrad Broadcasting Service" is fictional. All voices are AI-generated. No affiliation with any actual news organization. SOURCES: Kyiv Independent — https://kyivindependent.com/trump-claims-ukraine-russia-agreed-to-energy-ceasefire-kyiv-has-no-information-about-it/Kyiv Independent — https://kyivindependent.com/we-have-one-refinery-zelensky-says-energy-ceasefire-must-cover-power-grid-not-just-oil/Kyiv Independent — https://kyivindependent.com/russian-attacks-kill-at-least-10-injure-73-across-ukraine-as-moscow-targets-energy-infrastructure-in-several-oblasts/Kyiv Independent — https://kyivindependent.com/3-killed-25-injured-in-russian-strike-near-kharkiv/Georgia Today — https://georgiatoday.ge/kallas-eu-adopts-nearly-1600-new-sanctions-listings-targeting-russias-military-industrial-complexThe Media Line — https://themedialine.org/headlines/saudi-arabia-running-low-on-interceptor-missiles-iran-offers-to-mediate-houthi-conflict/Times of Israel — https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-said-to-suspect-pms-top-aide-took-30-classified-records-to-shape-oct-7-narrativeAl Jazeera — https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/12/uk-pm-andy-burnham-says-it-is-clear-russia-interfered-in-2016-brexit-vote Full sources and recipe verification are in the Substack edition.