At Trump’s request, Russia announces the cessation of strikes on Kyiv until this date
However, Moscow said that the American request came to push the negotiation process led by Washington to end nearly four years of war between the two neighbors. The recent Russian strikes on the energy infrastructure in Ukraine led to an outage. Electricity, heating and water supply, with a sharp drop in temperatures, deepening the humanitarian crisis. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Trump "He personally asked President Putin to refrain from launching raids on Kiev for a week until February 1, with the aim of creating favorable conditions for negotiations." Neither Trump nor Moscow explained when this took place, and Trump said during a government meeting on Thursday "They had never experienced cold like this before. I personally asked President Putin to stop bombing Kiev and neighboring cities for a week, and he agreed to do so… That was very nice." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on social media on Friday "There were no strikes on power facilities last night" Zelensky earlier welcomed Trump’s announcement. And he said "If Russia doesn’t hit our energy infrastructure — generating plants or other energy assets — we won’t". These are statements he made to journalists, and their publication was prohibited until Friday.
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