Washington has been pushing for an immediate 30-day ceasefire as a first step to ending the grinding three-year-old war.
While the highly anticipated call did not secure the breakthrough ceasefire endorsed by Ukraine last week, it did result in a scaled-back commitment to halt attacks on energy infrastructure for 30 days.
Russia and Ukraine will also exchange 175 prisoners each on Wednesday “as a goodwill gesture”, with further talks to take place immediately in the Middle East.
A Kremlin statement also demanded that Kyiv could not rearm or mobilise during any ceasefire.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said “there have been hits, specifically on civilian infrastructure”, including a hospital in Sumy.
Ukraine authorities later said Russia had launched six missiles and dozens of drones overnight in a barrage that killed one person and damaged two hospitals.
“We’ve seen that attacks on civilian infrastructure have not eased at all in the first night after this supposedly ground-breaking, great phone call,“ he said.
She also insisted that Kremlin demands to stop arming Kyiv could not be accepted.
‘Only understands force’
“I don’t believe Putin at all, not a single word. He only understands force,“ said Lev Sholoudko, 32.
Trump hailed the call with Putin as “good and productive”.
The Kremlin statement after the talks referred to “energy infrastructure” whereas Trump’s interpretation is the broader “energy and infrastructure” which would include all civil infrastructure and not just energy-specific sites like power stations, transformers, and oil installations.
He acknowledged lingering “details to work out”, including negotiations on a maritime ceasefire for the Black Sea and, eventually, a full truce.
Speaking to Fox News, Trump acknowledged that pressing Putin into a full ceasefire would be tough as “Russia has the advantage”.
Washington has made clear that Ukraine will likely have to cede territory in any deal.
The UK and French governments have been cobbling together a so-called “coalition of the willing” to protect any ceasefire in Ukraine.
“Ukraine can count on us,“ Scholz said.
“How can you trust people who attack you and kill civilians, including children?” said Oleksandr, 35, who has returned to military training in the Donetsk region after being wounded in combat.
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