As winter tightens its grip and the fifth year of war grinds on, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived at the United Nations with a proposition rooted in mutual exhaustion: if Russia stops darkening Ukrainian homes, Kyiv will stop darkening Russian refineries. The offer, made after meetings with Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Andy Burnham in New York, reflects a war that has evolved into a contest over who can endure the cold longest — and who will blink first. It is a ceasefire not of guns, but of the infrastructure that keeps modern life possible, offered at the precise moment when
Zelenskyy proposes energy ceasefire with Russia after Trump talks in New York
Ongoing Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure threaten civilian access to heating, electricity, and water supplies as winter approaches.