President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday (March 18) Ukraine would support a U.S. proposal to stop strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, and that he hoped to speak to U.S. President Donald Trump about his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reports.
The White House said earlier that Putin and Trump agreed during a conversation to a limited 30-day ceasefire on energy infrastructure targets in Ukraine and that talks aimed at moving toward a broader peace plan would begin "immediately."
The Ukrainian leader said that after the Putin-Trump call he himself spoke by telephone with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, both key European allies.
He also told reporters that he hoped Kyiv's partners would not cut vital military assistance for Ukraine and that it would continue.
He made the remark when asked about an earlier comment by Putin, who emphasized that any resolution of the conflict would require an end to all military and intelligence assistance to Ukraine.
