Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described his lengthy phone call with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday as a “positive, very substantive and frank conversation", APA reports citing CNN.
The call was the first known conversation between Trump and Zelenskyy since the two leaders’ blowup in the Oval Office 19 days ago, and it came a day after Trump spoke to the Russian President Vladmir Putin.
Zelenskyy adopted a measured and grateful tone in his statement following the call, thanking Trump for “a good and productive start to the work.”
The statement did not comment on the fact that Trump’s call with Putin ended without the Russian leader formally agreeing to a ceasefire deal.
“We believe that together with America, with President Trump, and under American leadership, lasting peace can be achieved this year,” Zelenskyy said.
“President Trump shared details of his conversation with Putin and the key issues discussed. 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,” he added.
Zelenskyy did, however, touch on one of the issues that became a sticking point between Ukraine and the US, specifically mentioning that “in further meetings, the (US and Ukrainian) teams can agree on all necessary aspects of advancing toward lasting peace and security guarantees.”
The Trump administration has rejected Ukraine’s demands for security guarantees in exchange for a ceasefire agreement, and the issue of whether security guarantees would be part of a natural resources deal between the two countries was one of the reasons why the Oval Office meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump collapsed last month.
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