Putin agrees with a 30-day break to strikes of the energy systems, but no complete Ukraine weapons

The Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to temporarily no longer attack the Ukrainian energy facilities, but rejected the first step towards a permanent peace agreement that President Donald Trump hoped.

Ukraine said that it would support the contract for scaled backrest, in which both countries would relieve the other of the other for about a month. Experts said Putin avoided making considerable concessions in a game for the time because the Russian troops are progressing in eastern Ukraine.

The White House said talks about a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea as well as a more comprehensive ceasefire and a permanent peace agreement would start immediately after a long call between Trump and Putin on Tuesday.

It was unclear whether Ukraine would be involved in these conversations, by which Trump envoy Steve Witkoff will take place on Sunday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

“Until recently, we really had no consensus about these two aspects – the infrastructure of the ceasefire and the Black Sea moratorium at shooting – and today we came to this place, and I think it is a relatively short route to a complete ceasefire from there,” Witkoff told Fox News “Hannity” program.

The Kremlin did not immediately answer at Reuters' request for comments outside of business hours on Witkoff's statements.

Putin ordered the Russian military to stop attacks against energy sites after talking to Trump, said the Kremlin.

However, he expressed concerns that a temporary ceasefire could enable Ukraine to reolve and mobilize more soldiers, and doubled his demand that every decision for all military and intelligence support for Ukraine required an end.

Trump told Fox News Aid in Ukraine did not appear in the conversation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that his country would support the proposal to stop strikes for energy devices and infrastructure for 30 days. He said that Russia launched more than 40 drones late Tuesday and met a hospital in Sumy and other areas, including the Kyiv region, which surrounds the Ukrainian capital.

“Today Putin de facto rejected the proposal for a complete ceasefire. It would be right for the world to reject the war in response to all attempts from Putin,” said Zelenskiy in a post in Telegram -Messaging app.

Trump, who had a complicated relationship with Zelenskiy, spoke positively about his call with Putin.

“We had a great call. It took almost two hours,” said Trump in the “The Ingraham Angle” show by Fox News.

But the US President didn't understand what he wanted. The Ukraine, with which Trump had previously described to work as difficult than Russia, had approved the US proposal for a full 30-day armistice. Putin didn't.

“This call has brought to light how difficult a conversation partner will be Russia and how the general lack of willingness in Russia will speak to make real progress in the end of this war,” said Kristine Berzina, managing director of the German Marshall Fund. It called the limited ceasefire “a very small step forward”.

Since the full invasion of Russia 2022 2022, Ukraine has tried to defend itself against its much larger neighbors with deep stands of the drone and rocket deepening in Russian territory, including the energy facilities. These attacks that Moscow says have made Kyiv putting pressure on the Russia's economy.

This means that an armistice for the attacks energy infrastructure could benefit Russia, said Maria Snegovaya, Senior Fellow at Washington's center for strategic and international studies.

In a social media contribution after the call, Trump said that he and Putin had agreed to quickly work on a ceasefire and finally to work on a permanent peace agreement.

“Many elements of a peace treaty were discussed, including the fact that thousands are killed by soldiers, and both President Putin and President Zelenskyy would like to end it,” he wrote with an alternative spelling for the Ukrainian leader.

On March 11, Ukraine said that it was ready to accept a 30-day ceasefire. A step that US official said would lead to a more extensive round of negotiations to end the greatest conflict in Europe since World War II. The war killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of people, expelled millions and reduced entire cities in rubble.

Trump has indicated that a permanent peace agreement could include territorial concessions of Kyiv and the control of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

Zelenskiy, who arrived in Helsinki on Tuesday shortly after the end of Trump and Putin, said that Europe had to be accepted into peace talks in Ukraine.

The conversations between Trump and Putin came when Israel re -enacted the Hamas attacks in Gaza, threatened a fragile ceasefire and underlined the difficulty to secure permanent ceasefire in long -lasting conflicts.

The two guides also discussed how they can prevent future conflicts in the Middle East and “shared the view that Iran should never be able to destroy Israel,” said the White House.

The Russian armed forces perform in the Ukrainian east and push the Ukrainian troops back from the Russia region.

The agreement on a close ceasefire reflects Trump's desire to normalize relationships with Russia and suggests that Putin may play time, said Susan Colbourn, an expert in European security issues at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

“It was remarkable how little concession Trump demands from the Russians, even though they marched in in their neighbors,” said Colbourn.

The overtures of the US President to Putin, since they returned to the White House in January, alerted allies.

The Ukraine and its western allies have long described the invasion of Russia into Ukraine as imperialist land excavations, and Zelenskiy has accused Putin of deliberately extending the war.

According to Zelenskiy, the sovereignty of Ukraine is not negotiable and Russia has to hand in the area he recorded.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, warned on Tuesday that Russia has massively expanded its military-industrial production capacity in order to prepare for “future confrontation with European democracies”.

At a press conference in Berlin with French President Emmanuel Macron On Tuesday, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in Germany that the limited ceasefire was an important first step, but again called for a complete ceasefire. He confirmed that Ukraine must be part of a final decision.

In 2014, Russia confiscated the crime pennies from Ukraine and most of the four eastern Ukrainian regions after his invasion in 2022.

Putin said he sent troops to Ukraine because NATO's creeping expansion threatened Russia's security. He demanded that Ukraine to drop every ambition to join the western military alliance.

Putin has also said that Russia has to keep control of the Ukrainian area that has confiscated that western sanctions should be loosened and Kyiv has to carry out a presidential election. Zelenskiy, elected in 2019, has remained in office after war law, which he imposed on war.