Putin has agreed to a week-long pause in attacks on Kiev
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Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko says the heating is still not working in some 450 apartment blocks in the Ukrainian capital in the wake of Russian attacks this month. In one particularly affected district,
EADaily, January 29th, 2026. The head of the Desnyansky district of the Ukrainian capital, Maxim Bakhmatov, said that he was offering to dig toilets in Kiev for a reason. According to him, the sewage system in the houses freezes and there are already cases.
He said Kiev had received no signals from Russia and was not sure whether an "energy truce" would actually come.
Kiev may find itself in a situation where it will be forced to make serious territorial concessions in exchange for security guarantees. This was stated on January 29 by the head of EU diplomacy, Kaya Kallas,
EADaily, January 29th, 2026. Ukraine is ready to help Moldovan friends in resolving the Transnistrian issue. This was stated to the Ukrainian edition of the European Truth by Kiev's Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga.
On the night of November 28, the Russian military attacked the Belgorod community in the Kiev region with drones, the head of the regional military administration Nikolai Kalashnik said. "A multi-storey residential building was damaged. There was a fire on the roof and on the top floor," wrote Kalashnik in his Telegram channel.
People charge their electronic devices at a temporary shelter in Kiev, Ukraine, Jan. 20, 2026. Russia's air raids caused large-scale power and water supply disruptions in Ukraine's capital of Kiev on Tuesday, said Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
About 600,000 people have left Kiev, which is in a critical situation due to severe frosts and constant heat and electricity outages. This was announced on January 26 by Stanislav Ignatiev, an energy expert at the Ukrainian Institute of the Future.
Russia intensified strikes on Ukraine’s energy sites, leaving Kiev without heat and prompting Zelensky to press allies for air defence aid.
Germany has little room to act on the issue of providing Ukraine with additional air defense systems and, in particular, cannot transfer new Patriots, as it needs them itself, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized Kiev's city administration over the handling of heating and power supplies in the capital following Russian airstrikes. "Equipment should have been sourced and procured well before this winter,