Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday of a proposal from American president Donald Trump for Russia and Ukraine to stop hitting the other energy infrastructure for 30 days and gave an order corresponding to the Russian army, said the Kremlin.
The Kremlin said in a statement that the two leaders had a “detailed and frank exchange of views” on Ukraine during a telephone call to which Putin had declared that a conflict resolution should be “complete, sustainable and long -term”, taking into account the own interests of Russia and the deep causes of the war.
The two leaders discussed an American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, to which Ukraine agreed last week. The Kremlin said Putin had raised “important points” on monitoring such a truce and preventing him from being used by Ukraine to mobilize more soldiers and rearm himself.
“It was pointed out that the key condition for preventing the climbing of the conflict and working on its resolution by political and diplomatic means should be a complete cessation of foreign military assistance and the provision of information information in kyiv,” the Kremlin said.
Earlier, the two parties said that the talks, which started at 10 a.m. (1400 GMT), had concluded later.
The Chief of the White House Staff, Dan Scavino, said earlier that the call was “well went”. Kirill Dmitriev, a Putin envoy, said that under the direction of Trump and Putin, the world had become a much safer place.
Ukraine has already accepted the United States’s ceasefire in the largest European conflict since the Second World War, during which hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured, millions of people were moved and the cities were reduced to rubble.
Putin, whose forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, said last week that he had in principle supported Washington’s truce proposal, but that his forces were fighting until several crucial conditions were developed.
Trump also hopes to get progress towards a longer -term peace plan, what he has hinted could include kyiv territorial concessions and the control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said before the appeal that Trump and Putin discuss the conflict in Ukraine and normalize relations between Russia and the United States, and they are talking about “as long as they deem it necessary”.
Peskov said there was already a “certain understanding” between the two leaders, based on a telephone call they held on February 12 and on subsequent high -level contacts between the two countries.
Zelenskiy says that sovereignty is not negotiable
Trump’s changes in American politics and its openings in Putin since returning to the White House in January have let the traditional American allies be wary.
Ukraine and its Western allies have long described the invasion of Ukraine by Russia as an imperialist lands and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Putin of having deliberately prolonged the war.
Zelenskiy, who arrived in Finland on Tuesday to discuss the support of the NATO state in Ukraine, says that Ukraine’s sovereignty is not negotiable and that Russia must make the territory it has seized. He says that Moscow’s ambitions will not stop in Ukraine if it is authorized to keep the territory it has seized.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, warned Tuesday that Russia had massively widened its capacity for military-industrial production in preparation for “future confrontation with European democracies”.
Addressing Trump late on Monday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer “reiterated that everyone had to work together to put Ukraine in the strongest position to guarantee just and lasting peace,” said spokesman for the British leader.
Russia seized the Crimea Peninsula in Ukraine in 2014 and controls most of the four oriental Ukrainian regions after its invasion in February 2022. It controls approximately a fifth of Ukrainian territory.
Putin said she sent troops to Ukraine because NATO’s creeping expansion threatened Russia’s security. He asked Ukraine to drop his ambition to join the Western military alliance.
Putin also said that Russia should keep control of the Ukrainian territory it has seized, that Western sanctions should be attenuated and that kyiv must organize a presidential election. Zelenskiy, elected in 2019, of the rules under the martial law which he imposed because of the war.
