US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to halt attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities for a week, after Moscow’s strikes left millions without electricity in temperatures far below zero.
“They’ve never experienced cold like that. And I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv and the various towns for a week. And he agreed to do that, and I have to tell you, it was very nice,” Trump said at a Cabinet meeting, citing “extraordinary cold” in the region.
“It was very nice. A lot of people said, ‘Don’t waste the call, you’re not going to get that.’ And he did it,” Trump added.
Notably, there has been no confirmation from the Russian side that it intends to stop striking Kyiv and
other cities.
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Russia on Thursday said that it has sent an invitation for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to come to Moscow for peace talks. The development came as the US-led efforts intensified to reach a deal to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin’s statement came hours after it declined to comment on rumours that Moscow and Kyiv have agreed to stop striking each other’s energy infrastructure.
Last weekend, Washington-mediated peace talks in Abu Dhabi renewed efforts to clinch a peace deal, but differences persisted between the Russian and Ukrainian negotiating stances.
