Kremlin confirms Trump personally asking Putin to halt attacks on Kyiv until 1 February
Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov has confirmed that US President Donald Trump personally asked Vladimir Putin to refrain from striking Kyiv until 1 February.
Source: propagandists from Russian news outlet TASS
Quote: "Indeed, President Trump made a personal request to President Putin to refrain from striking Kyiv for a week, until 1 February, in order to create favorable conditions for negotiations." [N.B. Ukrainska Pravda does not recognise Putin as president – ed.]
Details: The Kremlin did not specify when exactly Trump asked Putin to stop striking Kyiv.
Prior to this, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasised that there are no direct agreements between Kyiv and Moscow on stopping Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities, but talks on this issue are ongoing, including in Abu Dhabi; he also stressed that Ukraine will respond to Russian attacks in kind.
Background:
- Trump said he himself asked Putin to stop attacks on Ukraine for a week due to freezing cold weather.
- On Thursday 29 January, Russian pro-war social media accounts began posting about an alleged order to stop attacking Ukrainian infrastructure, which was received on 28 January.
- Zelenskyy, in turn, confirmed that the Ukrainian negotiating team had discussed the issue of halting attacks on energy infrastructure in Abu Dhabi.
- In Kyiv, as a result of a large-scale Russian attack on 24 January and damage to critical infrastructure, 6,000 buildings (half of the city's housing stock) were left without heat.
- As of 30 January, 378 high-rise buildings in the capital remain without heating after the Russian attack on the night of 23-24 January.
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