President Donald Trump made a high -risk call with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday when the United States looks for fire between Russia and Ukraine.
A reading of the White House call said that Putin supports Trump’s idea for a mutual pause about energy infrastructure attacks, but did not include a commitment to the 30 -day truce accepted by Ukraine last week despite Trump’s optimism in recent days that Moscow would follow.
“Both leaders agreed that this conflict must end with a lasting peace,” said the White House about the so-called Trump-Poutin. “They also emphasized the need to improve bilateral relations between the United States and Russia. The blood and treasure that both Ukraine and Russia have been spending in this war would be better spent on the needs of their people.”
“This conflict should never have begun and it should have ended a long time ago with sincere peace efforts and in good faith,” added the White House. “The leaders agreed that the movement towards peace will begin with a high fire of energy and infrastructure, as well as technical negotiations on the implementation of a high sea fire in the Black Sea, the high fire and permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.”
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at a press conference after Tuesday’s developments, said he had “skepticism” but that “if there is a stop partial fire, this is a positive result.”
Trump, in his own publication on social networks later on Tuesday, described the conversation of The Sourslong “very good and productive”.
“We agreed to a high immediate fire in all energy and infrastructure, with the understanding that we will work quickly to have a high fire and, ultimately, the end of this horrible war between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump wrote.
Trump and Putin also talked about the Middle East more widely, including Iran, said the White House.
“The two leaders agreed that a future with an improved bilateral relationship between the United States and Russia has a great rise,” read the reading. “This includes huge economic agreements and geopolitical stability when peace has been achieved.”
President Donald Trump at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on March 13, 2025, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Brussels, on March 6, 2025 and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, at the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 13, 2025.
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According to Russian state media, Kremlin said Putin “supported” Trump’s idea of a 30 -day detention to attack the energy infrastructure in Russia and Ukraine.
But in terms of Trump’s proposal for a wider track, Kremlin’s reading said that “the Russian side has identified a series of important problems related to the guarantee of effective control over a possible high fire along the entire contact line, the need to stop the forced mobilization in Ukraine and the rear of the Ukraine armed forces.”
The Kremlin also said that Putin believed that a condition to end the war should include a “complete cessation” of intelligence military assistance to Kyiv.
The Trump administration gave drastic measures to stop military aid and stop some intelligence sharing with Ukraine after the Oval office clash between Trump, Vice President JD Vance and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Those two tools resumed after Ukraine agreed to high the fire of 30 days last Tuesday.
Ukraine has said he would need to approve any agreement.
James James Longman asked Zelenskyy during his press conference on Tuesday if he committed to a high energy fire and what he thought about Trump and Putin’s relationship.
“It’s hard to know. It is difficult to answer the question in terms of the relationship between Trump and Putin,” Zelenskyy replied. “I have a conversation with President Trump. We will understand the details. We have always supported the high fire position and not use weapons against energy infrastructure, and we have also supported the position of not attacking naval corridors.”
“These were our proposals and we will support any proposal that leads to a stable and fair peace,” he added. “But for that we would have to understand what we are talking about, what are the details and, hopefully, we will learn all those details so that the partners are giving us.
Ellie Kaufman, Tanya Stuaklova and Michelle Stoddart of ABC News, contributed to this report.
