Donald Trump said on Thursday Vladimir Putin had agreed to temporarily halt strikes on Kyiv during the bitter cold spell impacting Eastern Europe.

Ukrainian leader said that a meeting with Putin in the Russian capital is impossible. “That would be the same as meeting Putin in Kyiv," Zelenskyy said. "I can invite him to Kyiv — let him come. I am publicly inviting him,

Earlier this month, Russia's far east Kamchatka region declared an emergency situation due to a massive snowstorm that left its major city partially paralysed. View on euronews

Russia's winter strikes have focused on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

"The Russian people are increasingly feeling the effects of the Kremlin's continued prioritization of the Russian defense industrial base."

It’s been almost four years since Russian troops invaded eastern Ukraine with the intention of taking over the Donbas region and igniting one of the biggest and deadliest conflicts seen in Europe in the past decades.

A Moscow man attacked a fellow boarding house tenant with a wooden club after the victim complained about bathroom conditions and bedbugs, police say. Bruce Wilmot, 59, told police he “couldn’t take it anymore” and attacked the other man in an attempt to “muzzle” him, according to a criminal complaint.

One of Moscow’s top universities is offering plush signing bonuses to encourage students to enlist in non-combat military positions, but legal experts warned the recruitment efforts rely on deceptive tactics that instead are thrusting the young academics into the throes of war.

This is the second time that President Vladimir V. Putin has hosted President Ahmed al-Sharaa since the fall of the Russia-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

CALGARY — Hundreds of party delegates from across the country have assembled in Calgary for the federal Conservative party's national convention.