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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth in Washington

Trump claims Putin agreed to halt strikes on Ukraine energy sites amid extreme cold

Donald Trump with Marco Rubio in a cabinet meeting
Donald Trump made the claim during a cabinet meeting, saying Putin had agreed and ‘it was very nice’. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/EPA

Donald Trump has claimed that Vladimir Putin has agreed to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for one week after he issued a personal appeal to the Russian leader due to the extreme cold in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, did not immediately confirm the ceasefire was in place, but said that Trump had made an “important statement … about the possibility of providing security for Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities during this extreme winter period”.

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