The Kremlin has not commented on the supposed \u2018energy ceasefire\u2019<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Russia will not attack targets in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities \u201cfor a week.\u201d Trump said that the decision came after he \u201cpersonally asked\u201d Russian President Vladimir Putin to suspend the strikes.
\n\u201cBecause of the extreme cold\u2026I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kiev and the cities and towns for a week,\u201d Trump told reporters at a cabinet meeting on Thursday. Putin \u201cagreed to do that,\u201d Trump continued, adding that \u201cwe\u2019re very happy\u201d with the decision.
\nEarlier on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on rumors that Moscow and Kiev had reached a co-called \u2018energy ceasefire\u2019.\u00a0Ukrainian MP Aleksey Goncharenko claimed that while \u201cthere is an agreement on an energy truce,\u201d there \u201cis no date for the start of this truce.\u201dUkrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly called for an energy ceasefire, during which both sides would cease targeting each others\u2019 power plants and electrical grid. These calls intensified this week, after repeated Russian strikes on power infrastructure left nearly a million households in the dark in Kiev on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian Energy Minister Denis Shmigal.<\/p>\n
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You reap what you sow: Ukraine\u2019s blackout is Zelensky\u2019s failure<\/p>\n
Russia maintains that it targets only those facilities used by the Ukrainian military and military industrial complex, and that its attacks are a direct response to Kiev\u2019s deep strikes on Russian civilians and critical infrastructure. Temperatures in the Ukrainian capital are predicted to dip to -13 Celsius (8 F) this weekend. Russia agreed to an energy ceasefire last March, following talks with Trump\u2019s administration. However, Ukrainian forces broke the ceasefire within days, launching attacks on Russian oil refineries and gas infrastructure. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow chose not to retaliate in kind, preferring to honor the ceasefire. After both Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron called for another truce last month, Peskov said that Russia seeks a permanent peace, rather than another temporary pause. \u201cWe are working on peace, not on a ceasefire,\u201d he said. \u201cA stable, guaranteed, long-term peace, achieved through the signing of appropriate documents, is an absolute priority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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