Liudmyla Oleshko has not left her freezing apartment in Kyiv for two months, resorting to drinking a glass of vodka to warm up as Russian air strikes leave her without electricity and water for days on end.

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

By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - U.S. and European officials are growing increasingly worried as hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. energy assistance previously pledged for Ukraine remain unreleased,

US President Donald Trump claimed his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to a week-long pause in attacks on major Ukrainian cities, including the capital, Kyiv, as the country grapples with plummeting winter temperatures.

This is Chris York and Yuliia Taradiuk reporting from Kyiv on day 1,437 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Russia attacked a passenger bus in Kherson Oblast, killing the driver and injuring 5 civilians,

By Anna Pruchnicka and Max Hunder KYIV, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Russia pounded Ukraine with drones and a missile overnight, killing a couple near the capital Kyiv a day after five people died in an attack on a passenger train.