BBC Foreign Ministry correspondent
President Vladimir Putin refused the immediate and complete ceasefire in Ukraine, and only agreed to stop the attacks on energy infrastructure, following an invitation with US President Donald Trump.
The Russian leader refused to register in the comprehensive ceasefire for a month, as the Trump team recently worked with the Ukrainians in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
He said that a comprehensive truce could only work if foreign military aid and intelligence participation with Ukraine ends.
European allies in Ukraine have previously rejected such conditions.
The United States and Russian leaders agreed that more peace talks will happen directly in the Middle East, but the results of the call lived to a decline in the Trump administration position where it stood a week ago.
When an American delegation met, their Ukrainian counterparts met in Jeddah last Tuesday, persuading Kiev to agree to their “immediate” ceasefire for 30 days across the ground, air and sea.
President Folodimir Zelinski said that Ukraine accepts the idea of the armistice that covers the energy infrastructure, but it wanted more details first.
“I think it will be right to have a conversation with President Trump and we will know in detail what the American Russians or what the Russian Americans presented gave,” Zelinski said.
Trump posted on social media that on Tuesday's invitation with the Russian leader was “very good and fruitful.”
In fact, the American president said: “We have agreed to a immediate ceasefire on all energy and infrastructure, with an understanding that we will quickly work to stop the shooting, and in the end, an end to this terrible war between Russia and Ukraine.”
“Many of the elements of the peace contract have been discussed, including the fact that thousands of soldiers are killed, and President Putin and President Zelinski want to see this.”
After last week's talks in Jeddah, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that the “ball” was in the Russian court, after the Ukrainians accepted Washington's proposal for a full ceasefire.
But the White House statement after Trump's invitation to Putin did not indicate this agreement with Kyiv.
Instead, the two leaders agreed that “the movement to peace will start with a ceasefire and infrastructure”, followed by negotiations on “the ceasefire in the Black Sea, a complete shooting and permanent peace.”
However, the Kremlin's special statement on the call indicated what it said was “a series of important issues” on the application of any agreement with Kyiv. She said that the end of foreign support and intelligence for Ukraine was a “major case” for Russia.
Trump and Putin agreed to immediate conversations at the technical level towards a long -term settlement, which said the Kremlin should be “complex, stable and long -term in nature.”
But it is unclear whether this means more negotiations between the United States and Russia, or bilateral talks between Russia and Ukraine.
Ukraine is likely to see the results of the long -awaited phone call on Tuesday as Vladimir Putin plays time, while adding conditions paralyzing any settlement.
The Russian leader has already tasted Trump's readiness to cut American support to Ukraine, and is trying to get it to repeat it – while returning the ball to Kiev.
