Russia has agreed to a partial ceasefire that will see all attacks on Ukrainian cities halted for a week, President Trump announced.
The US President told a cabinet meeting that Vladimir Putin was asked “not to fire into Kyiv and various towns for a week, and he agreed to do that”.
Millions of Ukrainians are without power or electricity after Russia focused its bombing efforts on the country’s energy system.
“They’ve never experienced cold like that”, Mr Trump told his cabinet.
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He praised Mr Putin for his “very nice” decision to stop the attacks.
Russia is yet to officially confirm that it intends to stop striking Kyiv and other cities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Wednesday that another swathe of attacks from Moscow was anticipated.
The Russian President has previously made deals with his American counterpart in private, only to water down the agreements.
Mr Trump made the announcement
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It follows the publication of a study suggesting nearly two million military casualties have occurred since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow has contested the figures that suggested as many as 325,000 have been killed out of an estimated total of 1.2 million casualties since the war began nearly four years ago.
Ukrainian forces are also said to have suffered major losses, approximately between 500,000 and 600,000 casualties.
The thinktank said: “Combined Russian and Ukrainian casualties may be as high as 1.8 million and could reach two million total casualties by the spring of 2026.”
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Russia has kept official numbers on losses closely guarded, with the last Ministry of Defence figures released in September 2022 putting the toll at 5,937.
Mr Zelensky denounced what he called an act of terrorism on Tuesday after a Russian drone strike on a passenger train in north-eastern Ukraine killed five people.
Prosecutors said fragments of five bodies had been found at the scene of the strike on the train, which occurred on Tuesday near a village in the Kharkiv region.
The Ukrainian President said the train was carrying more than 200 passengers, including 18 in the carriage that was hit.
Mr Putin has not confirmed Mr Trump's claim
| REUTERS“Each such Russian strike undermines diplomacy, which is still ongoing, and hits, in particular, the efforts of partners who are helping to end this war”, he wrote.
The latest Russian bombing blitz across the country left 10 dead and dozens wounded, with the injured including two children and a pregnant woman.
Three were killed and 32 wounded in a drone strike on Odesa in an attack that caused “enormous damage” on a power facility.
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