President Donald Trump made a high -risk call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday when the United States pushes fire with 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 optimistic comments 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.”
Trump and Putin also talked about the Middle East more widely, including Iran.
“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, and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, at the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 13, 2025.
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The conversation lasted 2 1/2 hours, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to Tass, a Russian state communication.
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 war should “be the complete cessation of foreign military assistance and the provision of intelligence information 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 and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. These two tools resumed after Ukraine agreed to stop the fire last Tuesday.
Ukraine has said he would need to approve any agreement.
A Ukrainian official told ABC News before Tuesday’s call that Zelenskyy would be monitoring the conversation between Trump and Putin with caution and great interest.
“We agree on the proposal of Alto El Fuego de USA. UU. With zero conditions, and if Putin will start playing with Trump establishing demands, it will not work,” added the source.
Tanya Stuaklova, Oleksiy Pshemyskiy and Michelle Stoddart of ABC News contributed to this report.
