Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday to a proposal from the American president Donald Trump For Russia And Ukraine To stop hitting the energy infrastructure of the other for 30 days and gave an order corresponding to the Russian army, the White House and the Kremlin declared following a long telephone discussion between the leaders.
“The leaders have agreed that the movement towards peace will begin with an energy cease-fire and infrastructure, as well as the technical negotiations on the implementation of a sea cease-fire in the Black Sea, the complete ceasefire and permanent peace,” said a reading of the White House call. “These negotiations will start 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 views” on Ukraine during a telephone call to which Putin said that conflict resolution should be “complete, sustainable and long -term”, taking into account the own interests of Russia and the deep causes of the war.
The two leaders discussed an American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, to which Ukraine agreed last week. The Kremlin said Putin had raised “important points” on monitoring such a truce and preventing him from being used by Ukraine to mobilize more soldiers and rearm himself.
“It was pointed out that the key condition for preventing the climbing of the conflict and working on its resolution by political and diplomatic means should be a complete cessation of foreign military assistance and the provision of information information in kyiv,” the Kremlin said.
Trump had put pressure on Putin to accept a 30-day ceasefire supported by the United States that Ukraine has already accepted in a movement towards a permanent peace agreement to end the largest European conflict since the Second World War. The war killed or injured hundreds of thousands of people, moved millions and reduced whole cities in rubble.
Putin, whose forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, said last week that he had in principle supported Washington’s truce proposal, but that his forces were fighting until several crucial conditions were developed.
