Trump and Putin agree on ‘energy and infrastructure ceasefire’ as step to Ukraine peace deal

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday agreed on steps toward a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, and struck a narrow ceasefire that is set to take effect at once.

“We agreed to an immediate Ceasefire on all Energy and Infrastructure,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post after his call with Putin, which lasted at least 90 minutes.

That agreement came “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,” Trump wrote.

Trump’s post echoed the Kremlin, which said after the call that Putin agreed on Russia and Ukraine refraining from attacking each other’s energy infrastructure for 30 days.

Putin “immediately” issued an order to that effect to the Russian military after the call, the Kremlin said.

The White House, in its own readout of the call, said Trump and Putin also agreed to “technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace.”

Those negotiations “will begin immediately in the Middle East,” the White House said.

The call took place more than three years after Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine on Putin’s order.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week that Kyiv would agree to a 30-day ceasefire of all hostilities, but only if Russia also signed on.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request to confirm the accuracy of the Kremlin’s summary of the call.

The White House’s readout said that Trump and Putin also “broadly” discussed the Middle East as “a region of potential cooperation to prevent future conflicts.”

Improved bilateral relationships

“The two leaders agreed that a future with an improved bilateral relationship between the United States and Russia has huge upside,” the readout said. “This includes enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has been achieved.”

Before the call, Russia was expected to lay out its conditions for a break in the fighting during the call, which could include all weapons shipments to Ukraine being halted, according to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg.

Trump has signaled that the U.S. could be willing to compromise with Russia, too.

“We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants,” Trump told reporters Sunday after being asked about concessions to Moscow in negotiations to end the more than three-year war in Ukraine.

“I think we have a lot of it already discussed very much by both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We are already talking about that, dividing up certain assets,” he added, without giving further details.

“We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance,” Trump noted.