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Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian army to refrain from hitting the Ukrainian energy infrastructure for 30 days, but stopped by agreement on an unconditional ceasefire.
The Kremlin said the Russian President “responded positively” to the proposal of US President Donald Trump to stop the attacks at a highly anticipated call between the two leaders on Tuesday.
He added Putin “Immediately gave the Russian army a corresponding order”.
In Sunday's comments Trump suggested that both “land” and “power plants” will be divided between Kiev and Moscow in any final peace settlement, which is currently a seeming reference to Ukrainian assets occupied by Russia.
However, instead of consent to the US President's proposal for an unconditional 30 -day ceasefire in Ukraine, Putin emphasized “a number of important questions” regarding the promotion of such an agreement and “serious risks” concerning Kyiv.
On Tuesday, Trump described Trump interviews with Putin as “very good and productive”.
He added: “Peace Agreement was released.
The call from the call offered no indication that Putin would be willing to compromise his Maximalistic End the war that actually ends the existence of Ukraine as an independent state, while most of NATO expansion returns to the east of the former Iron Curtain.
The Kremlin said that Putin stressed that the Russian “key condition would prevent the conflict from escalation” and the shift towards settlement would be “the overall end of foreign military support and sharing intelligence information with Kiev”.
Last week, kyiv Logged in to the 30 -day truce of Trump After pressure from Washington, which suspended military assistance and intelligence sharing.
According to Putin, Tuesday, he said he was ready to cooperate with the US to end the war, but insisted that any agreement must “take into account the unconditional need to eliminate initial reasons for the interests of crisis and Russia”.
Reading added that Moscow and Washington would set up a groups of experts to work on two -sided trips to a ceasefire.
The White House said that both presidents “agreed that this conflict must end in permanent peace” and “emphasized the need for improved bilateral relations between the United States and Russia”.
He added that “they agreed that the Movement to Peace would begin a ceasefire of energy and infrastructure”, “technical negotiations” to start performing a “naval ceasefire in the Black Sea” followed by interviews about “full ceasefire and permanent peace”.
Asked about the call, a higher Ukrainian official involved in peace negotiations, he said that the ceasefire of energy infrastructure is “the only realistic proposal, because eventually Putin wants war”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zlenskyy Initially hovering the possibility The ceasefire in October attacking energy goals and said it could prepare a way to wider peaceful conversations.
The head of the Ukrainian clerk added that Kyiv asked the White House for “full information” about calling with Putin and waited for an answer.
The Kremlin said that Putin was responding “positively” to Trump's proposal for naval safety in the Black Sea and agreed to have other interviews about the matter.
He added that both leaders discussed the “wide range of directions”, where the US and Russia could continue to cooperate, including “mutually beneficial partnerships in economy and energy”.
Putin and Trump also discussed the Middle East and stated that they would make a “common effort to stabilize the situation in crisis zones” and “introduction of cooperation” on nuclear non -spread and global security, Kreml said.
Trump also agreed that Putin's proposal that Russia and the US were hosting international ice hockey matches with players from both countries, added Kreml.
Zeletskyy said that Kyiv would support the proposal to suspend the strokes on the energy infrastructure, but said that the conditions Putin attached to a full military ceasefire showed that his intention is to weaken Ukraine.
The Ukrainian leader claimed that Russia was preparing new attacks and pointing out what he said was the accumulation of forces on the border with Ukraine northern sums.
Zelskyy, who spoke at an online press conference that took place shortly after the statement of the White House and the Kremlin, said “he really wanted President Trump to hear and see what Putin wanted”.
Tuesday's call was followed by an interview between Trump and Putin in February, which launched the US President's efforts to mediate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
Over the last month, Trump has put a lot of pressure on Zelenskyy to make concessions and negotiate an agreement with Putin.
The US President was criticized both at domestic and international level for being much less demanding on his Russian counterpart, although Russia threatened to save further sanctions if Putin did not engage in peace interviews.
Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine during his presidential campaign 2024 and place it on the top of its plans for foreign policy for the second term.