Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday a proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump to stop fighting each other's energy infrastructure for 30 days and issue corresponding orders to the Russian military.
“The leaders will begin with the energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on maritime ceasefires in the Black Sea, a full ceasefire and a permanent peace,” the White House convening said. “These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.”
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The Kremlin said in a statement that the two leaders had a “detailed and frank exchange” of Ukraine during a call, and Putin had said that, given Russia's own security interests and the roots of the war, the resolutions on the conflict must be “comprehensive, sustainable and long-term.”
The two leaders discussed a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, which Ukraine agreed last week. The Kremlin said Putin has made “important views” about monitoring such an armistice and prevent Ukraine from using it for mobilizing more soldiers and re-electing himself.
“It was stressed that the key condition for preventing the escalation of conflict and resolving its solutions through political and diplomatic means should be to completely cease foreign military aid and provide intelligence information to Kiev,” the Kremlin said.
Trump has been urging Putin to agree that Ukraine has accepted a 30-day ceasefire backed by the United States as part of a permanent peace deal to end the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II. The war has killed or injured hundreds of thousands of people, displaced, millions, and the entire town has turned into rubble.
Putin's troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and said last week that he primarily supported Washington's truce proposal, but his troops will continue to fight until several key conditions are laid out.
