Temperatures in Kiev are set to plunge to minus 26 degrees Celsius from Sunday, as the US pushes a de-escalation opportunity despite the absence of a formal ceasefire

EADaily, January 30th, 2026. An extraordinary meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors is taking place in Vienna. Ukraine demands to exclude Russia from it.

Ukraine's capital Kiev came under a fresh wave of Russian airstrikes, Ukrainian authorities and local media reported early on Saturday. THe Ukrainian air force and The Kyiv Independent news outlet said shortly after midnight that the city was under heavy attack.

Russia on Thursday invited Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to come to Moscow for the peace talks as the war between the two countries is about.

This morning's attack is the third major Russian attack on Kiev's energy infrastructure since January 9. Russia continues to punish Ukraine with the most powerful weapon in a freezing winter, the cold.

UKRAINIANS waited for signs today that Russia was abiding by a commitment to temporarily halt attacks on the country’s power grid, as one of the most bitter winters in years grips Ukraine.US President Donald Trump said on Thursday night that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to his request not to target the Ukrainian capital and other places for one week,

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.

Russia remains open to further dialogue with Ukraine in Istanbul after Abu Dhabi talks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, the RIA state

Snow is falling and night-time temperatures are dropping to as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius but hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are without electricity or heat due to mass Russian strikes that target energy facilities.