{"id":53481,"date":"2025-03-20T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-zelensky-agree-to-partial-ceasefire-against-energy-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:27:14","slug":"trump-zelensky-agree-to-partial-ceasefire-against-energy-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-zelensky-agree-to-partial-ceasefire-against-energy-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Zelensky agree to &#8220;partial ceasefire against energy&#8221; in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phone call came one day after Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday in their phone talks that the peace in Ukraine &#8220;will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire&#8221; in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and Ukraine&#8217;s &#8220;technical teams will meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss broadening the ceasefire to the Black Sea on the way to a full ceasefire&#8221; in Ukraine, said a statement signed by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Zelensky discussed the situation in Kursk and &#8220;agreed to share information closely between their defense staffs as the battlefield situation evolved,&#8221; said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>During the phone conversation, Zelensky asked for additional air defense systems, particularly Patriot missile systems, and &#8220;President Trump agreed to work with him to find what was available particularly in Europe,&#8221; said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also discussed Ukraine&#8217;s electrical supply and nuclear power plants with Zelensky and told the latter: &#8220;The United States could be very helpful in running those plants. American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky wrote on X after speaking to Trump, &#8220;One of the first steps toward fully ending the war could be ending strikes on energy and other civilian infrastructure. I supported this step, and Ukraine confirmed that we are ready to implement it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the White House statement on Wednesday did not mention that the partial ceasefire would apply to civilian infrastructure as Zelensky suggested.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed at a press briefing later on Wednesday that all intelligence sharing between the United States and Ukraine will continue. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-83907 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/trump-zelenskyy-gty-gmh-250319_1742392974262_hpmain_16x9_1600.jpg\" alt=\"The White House said U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call on Wednesday agreed to &quot;a partial ceasefire against energy&quot; between Russia and Ukraine.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House said U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call on Wednesday agreed to &#8220;a partial ceasefire against energy&#8221; between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000083906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000083906,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-zelenskyy-gty-gmh-250319_1742392974262_hpmain_16x9_1600.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-zelenskyy-gty-gmh-250319_1742392974262_hpmain_16x9_1600.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-zelenskyy-gty-gmh-250319_1742392974262_hpmain_16x9_1600.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-zelenskyy-gty-gmh-250319_1742392974262_hpmain_16x9_1600.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-zelenskyy-gty-gmh-250319_1742392974262_hpmain_16x9_1600.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/trump-zelenskyy-gty-gmh-250319_1742392974262_hpmain_16x9_1600.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000083906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53481"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53481"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}