Zelenskyy: Ukraine ready to match Russia's week-long pause on energy strikes

Zelenskyy said this in his evening video address.

"The American side spoke about refraining from strikes on energy infrastructure for a week, and the countdown began last night. It depends on our partners, of course – on the United States – how all this will go. Ukraine is ready to reciprocally refrain from strikes, and today we did not strike Russian energy facilities," Zelenskyy noted.

He observed that since Thursday night there have indeed been almost no strikes on energy facilities.

"Except in the Donetsk region, where there was one strike on gas infrastructure, an aerial bomb strike. We also now see Russia reorienting toward strikes on logistics, on railway junction stations. In particular, one of the Ukrzaliznytsia railcars was hit, a special power generator railcar – this happened this morning in the Dnipropetrovsk region," Zelenskyy reported.

At the same time, he noted that throughout the day there were the usual attacks with drones and aerial bombs.

"In the Kharkiv region there was a ballistic strike on warehouses of the American company Philip Morris. There was a significant fire. There were strikes on Nikopol, on Kherson, and border areas of the Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions," the president informed.

• On January 29, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that due to severe frosts in Ukraine, he personally asked Russian dictator Vladimir Putin not to shell Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities for a week, to which Putin allegedly agreed.