Trump and Putin agree to an immediate ceasefire for energy infrastructure in Ukraine conflict

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a phone call Tuesday to an immediate pause in strikes against energy infrastructure in the Ukraine war.

“My phone conversation today with President Putin of Russia was a very good and productive one,” Trump said on Truth Social. “We agreed to an immediate Ceasefire on all Energy and Infrastructure, with an understanding that we will be working quickly to have a Complete Ceasefire and, ultimately, an END to this very horrible War between Russia and Ukraine. This War would have never started if I were President! Many elements of a Contract for Peace were discussed, including the fact that thousands of soldiers are being killed, and both President Putin and President Zelenskyy would like to see it end. That process is now in full force and effect, and we will, hopefully, for the sake of Humanity, get the job done.”

According to the Kremlin’s readout of the call published by RT, Putin has “immediately” ordered the Russian troops to halt attacks on Ukraine’s energy sites. The president responded “favorably” to the maritime truce proposal and took steps to begin talks to “further work out specific details of such an agreement,” the Kremlin said. A U.S. official said that Putin had agreed to Trump’s proposal to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 30 days and backed a ceasefire in the sea. 

“Up until recently, we really didn’t have consensus around these two aspects – the energy and infrastructure ceasefire and the Black Sea moratorium on firing – and today we got to that place, and I think it’s a relatively short distance to a full ceasefire from there,” President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday evening. 

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky told reporters on Tuesday that he supports a maritime ceasefire and a moratorium on strikes on energy facilities in principle but will wait for the American side to provide details about the arrangement, RT reported.