US President Donald Trump claimed that the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine would not have occurred had he been in office. He also urged NATO countries to increase their defense spending to 5 percent of GDP,

First, he promised to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine “on day one”. Then, after being elected President of the United States, he said it would take “six months”.

Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Dnipropetrovsk region. On the morning of January 17, a Russian missile attack on the region's second-biggest city, home to more than 500,000 residents, killed four people and wounded 14 others.