After a phone call with US President Donald Trump, President Vladimir Putin has rejected a complete and immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and has only agreed to prevent attacks on energy infrastructure. The Russian leader refused to sign a wider month’s ceasefire that Trump’s team recently worked with Ukrainians in Saudi Arabia.
He said that it was necessary for a comprehensive trust to end foreign military assistance and intelligence sharing with Ukraine. European colleagues of Ukraine have earlier rejected such situations.
The US talks on Ukraine are scheduled to continue in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, said Steve Witcoff, the Middle East American envoy.
Russia has recently been rebuilding the region in its Kursk region, which was captured by a Ukrainian avatar six months ago in a three-year war. The results of Tuesday’s Trump-Poten call amount to a retreat in the US position from where they stood a week ago, although the two leaders agreed that further peace talks would take place in the Middle East immediately.
When an American delegation met the Ukrainian counterparts in Jeddah last Tuesday, he assured Kiev to agree to his proposal for the “immediate” 30-day ceasefire, in land, air and sea.
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For an official visit on Tuesday after Trump and Putin’s call ended, President Volodimier Zelancesi, who arrived at Helsinki, Finland, said Ukraine was open to the idea of the trusteer of the energy infrastructure covering the infrastructure, but earlier wanted more details.
He later accused Putin of rejecting a ceasefire after a barrage of Russian drone attacks.
According to the Ukraine leader, a hospital in Sumi and the power supply in Slovyensk were among the goals. “Unfortunately, there are hits, especially on civil infrastructure,” Zelansky said on X, “Today, Putin effectively rejected the proposal of a complete ceasefire.”
Trump first posted on social media that his call with the Russian leader was “very good and productive” and “many elements of a contract for peace were discussed”.
The US President said on the truth social, “We all agreed to an immediate ceasefire on energy and infrastructure, with an understanding that we will quickly work for a complete ceasefire and eventually, this very terrible war will end between Russia and Ukraine.”
About 80% of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been destroyed by Russian bombs, Zelancesi said last September.
Kiev in turn has deepened drones and missile strikes in the Russian sector on oil and gas facilities.
Putin agreed to stop the energy infrastructure from attacking, Russia and Ukraine accused each other of starting an airstrike.
Zelansky claimed that in the rear hours of the call between Trump and Putin, Russia launched more than 40 drones against Ukraine. Meanwhile, officials of Krasnodar in the southern Russian region reported that a small fire at an oil depot was launched by the Ukrainian drone attack. In Belgorod, a Russian region on the border with Ukraine, Governor said
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