Russia has left thousands of apartment buildings in Kyiv without heat in recent weeks, in a campaign that has appeared aimed at breaking Ukraine’s morale.

Moscow confirmed Trump asked Putin for a reprieve in attacks during a spell when temperatures could drop to below minus 20 F.

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Russia's Vladimir Putin agreed to a personal request to halt attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, after Moscow's strikes left millions without heating during an "extreme" cold snap.

They said they have never experienced cold like that. And I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv," said Trump.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed not to strike Ukraine's capital of Kyiv for a week as the nation expe

The Kremlin's clarification came after Donald Trump said earlier that he had made the request to Vladimir Putin because of the "extreme cold" in Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to target the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv for one week amid "extraordinary cold". He added that the Kremlin chief agreed to his request.