Washington – President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke Wednesday morning on Wednesday morning during a call that lasted about an hour, according to Trump.
“I just finished a very good phone call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine”, the president wrote on social truth. “It lasted about an hour. A large part of the discussion was based on the call classified yesterday with President Putin in order to align Russia and Ukraine in terms of their requests and their needs.”
The call occurs one day after Mr. Trump’s long appeal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which Trump said Putin had accepted a 30-day ceasefire against the energy and infrastructure of Ukraine. The commitment did not succeed in the complete cease-fire pushed by the United States and accepted by Ukraine. Hours after Mr. Trump and Putin hung up, Russia launched a series of drone strikes who struck the civil zones and damaged a hospital.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared in a joint declaration that Mr. Trump “had fully informed” Zelenskyy on the call with Putin, and Mr. Trump and Zelenskyy “agreed to closely share information between their defense staff as the Battlefield situation has evolved.” Zelenskyy, the two said, asked additional air defense systems, and Mr. Trump “agreed to work with him to find what was available, especially in Europe”.
Waltz and Rubio also said Trump suggested that the United States could appropriate and lead Ukrainian nuclear power plants. “The American ownership of these factories would be the best protection for this infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” said their press release.
Zelenskyy, for his part, said that he had a “positive, very substantial and frank conversation with the President of the United States Donald Trump” and “thanked him for a good start of work of the Ukrainian and American teams in Jeddah”.
Zelenskyy said Tuesday evening that “only a real stop of Russia attacks on civil infrastructure can report a real desire to put an end to this war and bring peace closer”.
Wednesday’s call is the first known conversation between Trump and Zelenskyy Disastrous oval office meeting Last month, it led Ukrainian officials to leave the White House early.
Trump said on several occasions that he thought Putin wanted peace, with little evidence in support of this assertion, three years after Putin launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine.
On Wednesday, a special envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said that Putin operated in “good faith” and that the Russian chief made an order after his appeal with Mr. Trump ordering the Russian forces not to attack the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Zelenskyy expressed skepticism to the idea that Putin wants peace.
“We are skeptical when it comes to trusting the Russians,” Zelenskyy said on Tuesday. “There is no confidence in Putin. This is why I say that we must understand how it will work technically so that it does not depend only on their desire. That’s it.”
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said “technical teams” go to Saudi Arabia on Monday to try to mark the conditions for a ceasefire.
“I spoke today with my Russian counterpart Yuri Ushakov of President Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine”, Waltz Written on x. “We have agreed that our technical teams would meet in Riyadh in the coming days to focus on the implementation and enlargement of the partial ceasefire that President Trump obtained from Russia.”
