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WASHINGTON – A mere hours after President Donald Trump claimed that Vladimir Putin had agreed to stop attacking Ukraine because of the cold weather there, the Russian dictator rained down more than 100 drones and a ballistic missile on the neighbor he is still trying to take by force...A total of 111 long-range drones and one ballistic missile were launched into Ukraine on Friday
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On Thursday afternoon, Trump had boasted how his personal intervention was helping Ukrainians as they struggled through a bitter cold snap that was sending overnight temperatures there below zero degrees Fahrenheit...“They said they’ve never experienced cold like that, and I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv and the various towns for a week and he agreed to do that. "
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Instead, Ukrainian and Russian officials offered different accounts of what they agreed to at three-way talks in Abu Dhabi last weekend. Zelenskyy said the agreement was about the two countries not attacking each other’s energy infrastructure. “Ukraine is ready to mirror the restraint, and today we did not attack Russian energy,” he wrote in a Friday afternoon post.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin had agreed to not strike Kyiv specifically, according to the Moscow Times. “I can say that President Trump did indeed make a personal request to President Putin to refrain from striking Kyiv for a week, until Feb. 1, as a way to create more hospitable conditions for negotiations.”