Russian Strike Kills 14 at Ukrainian Train Station as Both Sides Hit Energy Sites

A Russian strike on a Ukrainian train station killed 14 people, even as a rare local cease-fire held around the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky and other communities remained under fire. Overnight into Friday, a Ukrainian drone attack set fire to the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Russia's Samara region, which CNBC said produced jet fuel for Russia's military. The Wall Street Journal reported the strike ended a two-week pause in Ukrainian refinery attacks under U.S. pressure; the last refinery hit was Oct. 15, and no Russian oil infrastructure had been struck since Oct. 20. Trump envoy Jared Kushner had reportedly asked Kyiv for a 30-day halt.

In Ukraine, Russian attacks forced emergency power cuts in Dnipro and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, utility DTEK said. Regional military chief Oleksandr Hanzha said more than 350,000 people lost power. On Thursday evening, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine destroyed two Su-34 jets and struck an Iskander launcher, and he warned of new Russian ballistic missile attacks, urging allies to send more Patriot interceptors.

The left-leaning New York Times leads with the train station death toll of 14 and frames it against the Oleshky cease-fire, leaving out the refinery, U.S. pressure and mercenary stories. The right-leaning New York Post covers none of the strikes; it leads with footage of a naked Russian fighter holding a "Please help me!" sign to a Ukrainian drone. It adds that almost 50,000 foreign recruits have joined Russia's forces and cites a Botswanan man killed in Luhansk. Both sides center the war, but the left stresses civilian casualties and the right stresses Russia's reliance on foreign fighters. ZeroHedge, an alternative outlet, frames the refinery attack as defying Trump, while CNBC covers both countries' energy strikes and Zelenskyy's air defense appeal.