The Russian attack on Ukrainian energy facilities overnight shows that the air defense agreements reached with US President Donald Trump in Davos this week must be fully implemented, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, quoted by Reuters, BTA reported.
Zelensky and Trump met on Thursday at the World Economic Forum, where they discussed support for Ukrainian air defense, without specifying what specific agreements were reached.
Meanwhile, the first round of talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States took place yesterday in Abu Dhabi.
According to Ukrainian chief negotiator Rustem Umerov, the talks focused on "the conditions for ending the war set by Russia, and on the logical next steps in the negotiation process aimed at a dignified and lasting peace".
Nearly 6,000 buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kiev were left without heating after a nighttime Russian attack, the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said, quoted by Ukrinform.
Temperatures in the city this morning dropped to minus 12 degrees.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of residents in Chernihiv region were left without electricity as a result of the same attack, the regional energy company "Chernigivoblenergo" reported. According to its data, key energy infrastructure near the city of Nizhyn was damaged, Reuters added.
At the same time, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said that Vladimir Putin had cynically ordered a large-scale missile strike against Ukraine amid U.S.-brokered talks between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi.