Yesterday, Donald Trump said that he had asked Vladimir Putin to call a week-long ceasefire in Ukraine because of the bitterly frigid weather this winter has brought to a country already suffering from Russia’s bombardments. He told his cabinet members:

“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. A lot of people said, ‘Don’t waste the call, you’re not going to get that.’ And he did it.” [RFE/RL, January 29, 2026.]

Has Donald Trump suddenly grown a heart? Maybe . . . or we can at least hope so. But there has been no confirmation as yet from the Kremlin, while multiple attacks continued yesterday against the cities of Kherson and Kryvyi Rih.

And meanwhile, temperatures across Ukraine dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius, with over 400 residential buildings in Kyiv alone remaining without heat. Similar power outages have also been reported in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya.

In the Donetsk region — one of the areas partially occupied by Russian forces — a gas service worker was killed by a Russian drone while on his way to work, trying to help restore gas facilities.

And authorities in other regions have warned that attacks might continue despite ongoing negotiations. Andriy Sadoviy, Mayor of the city of Lviv, wrote on Telegram:

“Our enemy is such that it could take advantage of this and try to strike at the critical infrastructure of our cities.” [Id.]

So, even if Trump has sincerely made a humanitarian appeal to ease the suffering of the Ukrainian people, the burden is now on Putin to grant the request.

And we all know what a soft-hearted guy he is.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
1/30/26