The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, made conversations with Donald Trump on Wednesday to listen to details about the call of the US leader with the Vladimir Putin of Russia for a high durable fire to put an end to the ground of three years.
kyiv said that Zelensky was being informed about the 90 -minute call on Tuesday between Trump and Putin who saw the Kremlin leader agree a limited limited high in the strikes against the Ukraine electricity grid.
Although both Ukraine and Russia said they supported a temporary truce, each accused the other of not adhering to stop the strikes in the energy infrastructure.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said that a barrage of Russian missiles and drones hit the nation hit by the war, killing a person and damaging two hospitals.
“Today, Putin effectively rejected the proposal of a full fire,” Zelensky said.
The National Railway Service of Ukraine said that the flood had hit the railway energy infrastructure in the central region of Dnipropetrovsk. “Both for a pause in attacks on the energy sector or an energy truce executed by the enemy!” An aggregate rail declaration.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported a “deliberate” Ukrainian attack during the night in an oil deposit in the south of the country, which they said it was to “derail” Trump’s attempts to negotiate the end of the fighting.
“These attacks are counteracting our common efforts,” added Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, referring to US-ruse conversations.
In Washington, the American envoy Steve Witkoff said the technical conversations on a possible agreement to end the war would begin in Saudi Arabia on Monday. He predicted that he could reach a high fire agreement “within a couple of weeks.”
He said Bloomberg television That a meeting in the kingdom between Trump and Putin was “probable”, but did not offer a timeline.
Prisoners
Zelensky warned before his call with Trump against making “any concession” to Russia after Putin in his call to Trump demanded the end of Western military aid to Ukraine during any high fire.
Putin told Trump that for the high fire to work, Ukraine should not be allowed to reorganize and should stop mandatory mobilization. Kyiv replied that it would be vulnerable to more Russian attacks. He wants the United States to supervise a fire against energy infrastructure.
Moscow said Russia and Ukraine also exchanged 372 prisoners today, which was planned “as a gesture of goodwill.”
Trump’s Oberturas to Putin and indicate that Washington will no longer guarantee that European security has scared the United States NATO allies and caused movements towards a strong increase in domestic defense spending.
Zelensky accused Russia of not being “ready to end this war” and in kyiv, the Ukrainians tired of the war were prone to agree.
“I don’t believe in Putin at all, nor a single word.
In Moscow, the locals were more optimistic that conversations could end the fight, to Russia’s advantage.
“Definitely, this is in our favor,” said a resident of Moscow, Larisa, 46. “There is no other way what happened in 1945 now,” he added, referring to the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.
Trump, who says he has a “understanding” with Putin, surprised the world in February when he began direct conversations with Russia to end the conflict, generating fears among the allies that would capitulate against Moscow’s demands.
Trump praised the call with Putin as “good and productive.”
The Kremlin statement after the conversations referred to the “energy infrastructure.”
Trump’s interpretation is the most broad “energy and infrastructure” that would include all civil infrastructure and not only specific energy sites such as electrical plants, transformers and oil facilities.
‘It has us’
Trump acknowledged in an interview in Fox News That pressing Putin in a high the full fire would be difficult since “Russia has the advantage.”
Since Crimea took in 2014 and launched its large -scale invasion in February 2022, Moscow now occupies around a fifth of Ukraine.
Washington has made it clear that Ukraine will probably have to yield territory in any agreement.
The governments of the United Kingdom and the French have been trying to gather a call “coalition of the provisions” to protect any high fire in Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French president Emmanuel Macron promised after the Kremlin statement that they would continue to send military aid to Ukraine.
“Ukraine can count on us,” said Scholz.
But the soldiers in the first line of Ukraine remained doubtful that peace could soon be at hand. “How can you trust people who attack and kill them civilians, including children?” Said Oleksandr, 35, who has returned to military training in the Donetsk region after being injured in combat.
Putin wants the formal recognition of all the lands that Russia has captured
Putin wants Trump to formally recognize the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow has claimed as well as Crimea, Russia. Kommersant Daily informed.
Cite unidentified sources that attended a private commercial event with Putin on Tuesday, Kommersant He said Putin wanted the United States to formally recognize the four regions: Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, as part of Russia along with Crimea, which Moscow seized and attached in 2014.
Russia, although progress on the battlefield, does not completely control any of the four regions.
In exchange for recognition and if it happened “in the near future”, Kommersant He said Putin would commit not to claim the port city of Odessa and other Ukrainian Ukrainian territory.
Asked about him Kommersant Report on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman, Peskov, said Putin and Trump had not discussed the idea during his call on Tuesday.
But he confirmed, without elaborating that Putin had discussed the conflict in Ukraine at Tuesday’s closed door meeting with members of the commercial elite of Russia.
However, Peskov did not confirm whether Putin had floated the idea that the United States recognized the four regions in addition to Crimea at the meeting.
