Russia has launched its largest missile and drone strike of the year on Ukraine, crippling energy facilities in six regions during a brutal winter cold snap.

Russian drone strike killed 12 Ukrainian coal miners in what DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko called an "unprovoked terrorist attack" on civilian workers returning from their shift.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles early on Tuesday, local authorities reported, following a week-long pause in strikes on major cities and infrastructure agreed to by Russia and the US as Ukraine grapples with plummeting winter temperatures.

Moscow's latest overnight barrage came amid temperatures as low as -14 F.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces new peace talks with US and Russia set for Wednesday and Thursday this week in Abu Dhabi.

Sitting at his desk in the Oval Office Monday, Trump repeated his claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “agreed” to pause Moscow’s repeated strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, as the temperatures in Europe dropped dangerously low.

TRUMP UPBEAT AS UKRAINIANS SUFFER: It’s true, President Donald Trump has a lot on his plate these days, what with Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba, but still, he seems oddly disconnected from the latest developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine,

A day before Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. teams meet to talk peace, Putin's forces pounded Ukraine's energy infrastructure with dozens of drones and missiles.

Russian forces launched a mass overnight attack on Feb. 3, targeting major cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv as well as cities closer to the front line.

Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, also writing after the daily meeting, said 217 Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy system had been recorded since the beginning of the year. She p