U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday (January 29) that Russia had agreed to pause its shooting for a period of time, Reuters reports.
"I (have been) told that Russia is not doing any shooting for a period of time during this horrendously cold weather. So we asked President Putin if they could stop the shooting for week. They're being hit with proportionately the kind of cold that we're being hit. It's much colder in Ukraine to start off with, but it's really cold now. And he agreed to do that. We appreciated that very much. It's a nasty war. It's a nasty, nasty war," Trump said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he expected the agreement announced by Trump to be implemented, adding that the coming days would show whether Moscow would abide by it.
Speaking immediately afterwards in his nightly video address, Zelenskiy expressed his thanks to Washington for the initiative, which he described as halting Russian strikes on energy targets.
