Putin agrees in Trump’s call to stop Ukraine energy attacks, but without complete ceasefire

President Vladimir Putin dismissed the immediate and complete ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing only to stop the attacks on energy infrastructure after calling with US President Donald Trump.

The Russian leader refused to sign up for the universal month of ceasefire that Trump’s team recently worked with Ukrainians in Saudi Arabia.

He said that a comprehensive truce can only work if foreign military assistance and reconnaissance assistance with Ukraine ended.

The European allies of Ukraine have previously rejected such conditions.

The United States and Russian leaders agreed that further peace talks would take place in the Middle East immediately, but the results of the call to retreat to the Trump administration, from which it stood a week ago.

When the US delegation met with Ukrainian colleagues in Jed last Tuesday, they convinced Kiev to agree to their proposal to “direct” 30-day ceasefire across the ground, air and sea.

President Floodimir Zelensky stated that Ukraine perceived the idea of ​​a truce that covers the energy infrastructure but wanted in more detail at first.

“I think it will be right that we will talk to President Trump, and we will find out in detail that the Russians offered the Americans or that the Americans offered the Russians,” Zelensky said.

Trump posted on social media that the call on Tuesday with the Russian leader was “very good and productive”.

“We agreed with the immediate ceasefire throughout the energy and infrastructure, with the understanding that we will quickly work to have a complete ceasefire and ultimately end this very horrible war between Russia and Ukraine,” the US president said.

“Many elements of the contract for peace were discussed, including the fact that thousands of soldiers are killed, both President Putin and President Zelensky wanted it to end.”

After the negotiations last week in Jedde, Secretary of State Mark Rubio said the “ball” was in the Russian court, after the Ukrainians accepted Washington’s proposal for a complete ceasefire.

But the White House statement after Trump-Pyutin’s call did not refer to this agreement with Kiev.

Instead, it is said that both leaders agreed that “the movement to peace will begin with the ceasefire and the infrastructure”, after which negotiations on “sea ceasefire in the Black Sea, full of ceasefire and constant rest.”

But the Kremlin’s own statement on the call noted that it states a “series of significant problems” over the implementation of any agreement with Kiev. And it is said that the end of foreign support and exploration for Ukraine was a “key condition” for Russia.

Trump and Putin agreed to the immediate negotiations on the technical level to the long -term settlement, which, according to the Kremlin, should be “complex, stable and long -term”.

But it is unclear whether this means further negotiations between the US and Russia, or the bilateral negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

Ukraine is likely to see the result of the long -awaited phone call on Tuesday, when Vladimir Putin is playing time, while it adds crippled conditions in any settlement.

The Russian leader has already tried Trump’s readiness to cut off Ukraine’s support to Ukraine and tries to make him repeat it – throwing the ball back to Kiev.