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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, January 30 (Xinhua) — US President Donald Trump personally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to refrain from airstrikes on Ukraine until February 1. This was announced to reporters by Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov on Friday.
"Indeed, President D. Trump made a personal request to President V. Putin to refrain from striking Kyiv for a week, until February 1, in order to create favorable conditions for negotiations," TASS quotes him as saying.
The Kremlin spokesman declined to comment on Russia's response to the American leader's request. "I have nothing to add to what has already been said," Peskov concluded.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported on Friday that no energy facilities in the country were damaged during the night of January 30. "There were no strikes on energy facilities last night," he wrote on Telegram.
The first trilateral talks on settling the Ukrainian conflict, involving representatives from Russia, Ukraine, and the United States, took place on January 23-24 in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. A new meeting is scheduled there for February 1. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that this round will be bilateral, but the United States may join the parties.
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