U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to refrain from striking Kyiv for one week as the region faces severe winter cold.
The call for a pause in attacks on Ukraine’s capital comes as Russia has been pounding the country’s critical infrastructure, leaving many around the country without heat in the dead of winter.
"I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and the cities and towns for a week during this ... extraordinary cold,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
Trump added that Putin has "agreed to that,” but there was no confirmation of that from Russia.
Meanwhile, a Russian drone attack killed three people in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region overnight, authorities said Thursday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow is planning another large-scale barrage despite plans for further U.S.-brokered peace talks at the weekend.
