EADaily, January 30th, 2026. The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, again invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to talks in Kiev. This is reported by Deutsche Welle***.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized Kiev's city administration over the handling of heating and power supplies in the capital following Russian airstrikes. "Equipment should have been sourced and procured well before this winter,

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. The Kiev regime is already preparing the basis for accusing Russia of disrupting the "energy truce," which Moscow has not yet officially confirmed. The authors of the telegram channel "Two Majors" drew attention to this.

About 600,000 people have left Kiev, which is in a critical situation due to severe frosts and constant heat and electricity outages. This was announced on January 26 by Stanislav Ignatiev, an energy expert at the Ukrainian Institute of the Future.

He said Kiev had received no signals from Russia and was not sure whether an "energy truce" would actually come.

Russia intensified strikes on Ukraine’s energy sites, leaving Kiev without heat and prompting Zelensky to press allies for air defence aid.

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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.

In Kiev, employees of the Territorial Recruitment Center (TCK, an analogue of the military enlistment office in Ukraine) abducted a clergyman of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), Archpriest Alexander Itsenko.