Putin agrees in Trump call to pause Ukraine energy attacks but no full ceasefire

President Vladimir Putin has rejected an contiguous and afloat ceasefire successful Ukraine, agreeing lone to halt attacks connected vigor infrastructure, pursuing a telephone with US President Donald Trump.

The Russian person declined to motion up to the broad month-long ceasefire that Trump's squad precocious worked retired with Ukrainians successful Saudi Arabia.

He said a broad truce could lone enactment if overseas subject assistance and quality sharing with Ukraine came to an end.

Ukraine's European allies person antecedently rejected specified conditions.

The US and Russian leaders did hold that further bid talks would instrumentality spot instantly successful the Middle East, but the results of the telephone magnitude to a retreat successful the Trump administration's presumption from wherever it stood a week ago.

When a US delegation met Ukrainian counterparts successful Jeddah past Tuesday, they convinced Kyiv to hold to their connection for an "immediate" 30-day ceasefire, crossed land, aerial and sea.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine was receptive to the thought of a truce covering vigor infrastructure, but wanted much details first.

"I deliberation it volition beryllium close that we volition person a speech with President Trump and we volition cognize successful item what the Russians offered the Americans oregon what the Americans offered the Russians," Zelensky said.

Trump posted connected societal media that Tuesday's telephone with the Russian person was "very bully and productive".

"We agreed to an contiguous Ceasefire connected each Energy and Infrastructure, with an knowing that we volition beryllium moving rapidly to person a Complete Ceasefire and, ultimately, an END to this precise horrible War betwixt Russia and Ukraine," the US president said connected Truth Social.

"Many elements of a Contract for Peace were discussed, including the information that thousands of soldiers are being killed, and some President Putin and President Zelenskyy would similar to spot it end."

After past week's talks successful Jeddah, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had said "the ball" was successful Russia's court, aft the Ukrainians accepted Washington's connection for a afloat ceasefire.

But the White House's connection pursuing the Trump-Putin telephone made nary notation to that statement with Kyiv.

It alternatively said the 2 leaders agreed that "the question to bid volition statesman with an vigor and infrastructure ceasefire", followed by negotiations implicit a "maritime ceasefire successful the Black Sea, afloat ceasefire and imperishable peace".

But the Kremlin ain connection connected the telephone noted what it said were a "series of important issues" astir enforcing immoderate statement with Kyiv. And it said the extremity of overseas enactment and quality for Ukraine was a "key condition" for Russia.

Trump and Putin agreed to contiguous technical-level talks towards a longer-term settlement, which the Kremlin said indispensable beryllium "complex, unchangeable and semipermanent successful nature".

But it's unclear if this means further negotiations betwixt the US and Russia, oregon bilateral talks betwixt Russia and Ukraine.

Ukraine volition astir apt spot the result of Tuesday's much-anticipated telephone telephone arsenic Vladimir Putin playing for time, portion helium adds crippling conditions connected immoderate settlement.

The Russian person has already tasted Trump's readiness to chopped disconnected US enactment to Ukraine, and is trying to get him to repetition it - portion tossing the shot backmost to Kyiv.