Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that neither Moscow nor Kiev had carried out attacks on energy targets following an agreement initiated by Washington that Russia would refrain from such attacks, Reuters reported.
"In all our regions, there were really no strikes on energy facilities from Thursday evening to Friday. Ukraine is ready for reciprocity and today we did not target Russian energy facilities," Zelensky said in his evening video address.
He said Russia is engaged in "redirecting" its military activities by attacking logistics, such as rail hubs.
United States President Donald Trump said yesterday that he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to allow his military to bomb Kiev and other places in Ukraine for a week - due to the freezing winter.
"I have personally asked President Putin not to open fire on Kiev and other cities and towns for a week, during this... extraordinary cold," Trump said yesterday at a meeting of his cabinet at the White House.
Trump then claimed that Putin "agreed to it."
Zelensky said yesterday that he expects the implementation of an agreement under which Russia will not target Kiev and other cities for seven days due to winter weather conditions, as announced by Trump.
The Kremlin said earlier today that Putin had agreed to Trump's personal request to halt attacks on Kiev until February 1 to create "favorable conditions" for peace talks.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters today that "President Trump did indeed make a personal request to President Putin to refrain from attacking Kiev for seven days, until February 1, in order to create favorable conditions for negotiations."
When asked if Putin agreed, Peskov replied: "Yes, of course, there was a personal request from President Trump."
It was not clear whether Peskov was using "Kiev" only for the capital, where many have been left without heating and electricity after Russian attacks during the war in Ukraine, or for the entire country, Reuters reports.
Zelensky said earlier today that Ukraine is ready to retaliate if Russia continues to attack energy infrastructure. He added that there is no formal ceasefire between the two countries.
"The Americans said they wanted to raise the issue of de-escalation, with both sides showing certain steps towards refraining from using long-range capabilities in order to create more space for diplomacy," Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv at the time.
He added that "at this stage this is an initiative of the American side and the US President personally," and that Ukraine considers it "an opportunity, not an agreement."
The Ukrainian Air Force said today that Russia had launched a ballistic missile and 111 drones in overnight attacks on Ukraine, and regional officials reported strikes in frontline regions, with no reports of attacks on energy infrastructure.
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