President Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “kept his word” on not attacking Ukraine for one week — despite the widespread perception that Putin broke the deal with a bombing blitz after just four days.
“It was Sunday to Sunday, and it opened up. And he hit them hard last night,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday afternoon in the Oval Office.
“He kept his word on that. It was — it’s a lot, you know, one week. We’ll take anything, because it’s really, really cold, over there, but it was on Sunday, and he went from Sunday to Sunday.”
Trump said Thursday that he had asked Putin “not to fire on Kyiv and the cities and towns for a week” due to extreme cold. On Tuesday, Russia attacked power plants and other electrical infrastructure in Kyiv and other regions, according to the Ukrainian government.
