Russia hammers Ukraine on eve of peace talks

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Kyiv — It was different frigid greeting without powerfulness successful Dorohozhychi, a vicinity successful the northwest of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.

Between Monday nighttime and Tuesday morning, Russian drones and missiles battered vigor facilities crossed Kyiv arsenic temperatures dropped to minus 7 degrees Fahrenheit.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it was the archetypal Russian onslaught connected Kyiv's vigor infrastructure since President Trump announced during a Jan. 29 furniture gathering that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had agreed to intermission strikes connected Ukrainian towns and cities for a week.

The 5 time respite, according to engineers moving connected a damaged electrical substation successful Dorohozhychi Tuesday morning, was not agelong enough.

"Since determination is presently terrible frost outside, the load connected the powerfulness grids and connected the instrumentality is increasing, and it is wearing out," Maxim Yevchuk, an technologist with DTEK, Ukraine's largest backstage energy provider, told CBS News.

Yevchuk and his unit managed to repair the substation successful Dorohozhychi, but they expected to look akin problems successful different Kyiv neighborhoods passim the day. The underlying issues down the agelong powerfulness outages, they said, volition persist careless of the strength of Russian strikes.

"Almost each time we person an exigency similar this," Yevchuk said, explaining that the operation of Russian attacks and utmost upwind person overwhelmed the country's powerfulness grid.

Because of the overload, helium said, insignificant method failures "now pb to powerfulness outages for full neighborhoods."

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Discussion of an "energy truce" — with some sides stopping attacks connected each other's powerfulness infrastructure — emerged aft the archetypal trilateral bid negotiations held among Ukrainian, Russian and American officials successful Abu Dhabi astatine the extremity of January.

President Trump announced during a furniture gathering pursuing the acme that helium had asked Putin to intermission strikes connected vigor infrastructure, and that the Russian person had agreed.

"Our teams discussed this successful the United Arab Emirates," Zelenskyy said successful a societal media station weeks ago. We expect the agreements to beryllium implemented. De-escalation steps lend to existent advancement toward ending the war."

Now, arsenic Ukrainian, Russian, and American officials program to instrumentality to Abu Dhabi for a 2nd circular of trilateral negotiations, presently scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, the temper has shifted.

Russia launched 450 drones and much than 60 missiles astatine Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, according to Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, who said the strikes had near 1,170 flat buildings successful Kyiv without heating.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the strikes showed that "attitudes successful Moscow person not changed: they proceed to stake connected warfare and the demolition of Ukraine, and they bash not instrumentality diplomacy seriously. The enactment of our negotiating squad volition beryllium adjusted accordingly."

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte echoed Zelenskyy's sentiments during a sojourn to Kyiv connected Tuesday, telling members of Ukraine's parliament that, "Russian attacks similar those past night, bash not awesome seriousness astir peace."

NATO Secretary General Rutte visits heavy damaged powerfulness works successful Kyiv

There was nary contiguous effect from Moscow to the criticism.

Both Rutte and Zelenskyy emphasized Ukraine's capableness to endure the war's harshest months.

"Putin has agelong thought helium could hold america out, that Ukraine was weak, that your supporters would turn weary, that our volition would falter," Rutte said successful his address. "He was gravely mistaken. Ukraine is strong, and our enactment is unwavering."

As the vigor situation deepens, nationalist sentiment surveys conducted successful Ukraine look to enactment Rutte's appraisal of the nation's resolve. A canvass conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology from January 23-29 recovered that 65% of Ukrainian respondents said they were, "ready to endure warfare for arsenic agelong arsenic necessary" to unafraid what they comprehend arsenic a just peace.

According to DTEK, Monday night's onslaught was the worst truthful acold successful 2026, and the 12th large onslaught connected Ukraine's vigor infrastructure successful the past 4 months alone.

Yevchuk said, for his crew, the enactment "does not alteration from onslaught to attack."

They stay focused connected the aforesaid task each day: "We proceed to bash immoderate is indispensable truthful that our customers person arsenic overmuch powerfulness arsenic possible."

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