{"id":262148,"date":"2025-03-19T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/zelensky-says-hell-speak-to-trump-about-next-steps-after-putin-call\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:54:11","slug":"zelensky-says-hell-speak-to-trump-about-next-steps-after-putin-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/zelensky-says-hell-speak-to-trump-about-next-steps-after-putin-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Says He\u2019ll Speak to Trump About \u2018Next Steps\u2019 After Putin Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/19\/multimedia\/19Int-Ukraine-hfmg\/19Int-Ukraine-hfmg-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Zelensky Says He\u2019ll Speak to Trump About \u2018Next Steps\u2019 After Putin Call\" title=\"Zelensky Says He\u2019ll Speak to Trump About \u2018Next Steps\u2019 After Putin Call\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that expected to speak with President Trump later on Wednesday to \u201cdiscuss the details of the next steps\u201d after the American leader\u2019s call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Kremlin said that in a call with President Trump on Tuesday, Mr. Putin had agreed to a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-putin-call-ukraine-russia-ceasefire.html\" title=\"\">limited cease-fire<\/a> that would halt attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The proposal fell short of a 30-day unconditional truce that Kyiv had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-us-saudi-cease-fire-talks.html\" title=\"\">agreed to at Washington\u2019s urging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday, Mr. Zelensky appeared open to the latest offer of a limited cease-fire, but said he thought that such a truce would need U.S. monitoring to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf the Russians do not strike our facilities, we will definitely not strike theirs,\u201d Mr. Zelensky told a news conference in Helsinki alongside Finland\u2019s president, Alexander Stubb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Underscoring the lack of trust between Ukraine and Russia, the two countries <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/19\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-energy-infrastructure.html\" title=\"\">traded accusations<\/a> on Wednesday about attacks against each others\u2019 energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky has characterized some of the conditions Mr. Putin has set for a broader cease-fire \u2014 such as a demand for a complete cessation of foreign military and intelligence aid to Ukraine \u2014 as an attempt to stall for time so that Russia can improve its forces\u2019 positions on the battlefield and its negotiating hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Ukrainian president reiterated that point on Tuesday night after the call between Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump, saying that it was clear Russia was \u201cnot ready to end this war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are not even prepared to take the first step toward a cease-fire because they will continue to impose additional conditions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 30-day cease-fire proposal that Ukraine had agreed to after talks with U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia was more extensive. It would have applied to land, air and sea \u2014 the first cessation of hostilities since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago. That monthlong truce, Mr. Zelensky has said, was meant to give time for fuller negotiations about a longer-term peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Anastasia Kuznietsova<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/19\/world\/europe\/zelensky-trump-ukraine-russia-putin.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that expected to speak with President Trump later on Wednesday to \u201cdiscuss the details of the next steps\u201d after the American leader\u2019s call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The Kremlin said that in a call with President Trump on Tuesday, Mr. Putin had agreed to a limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/19\/multimedia\/19Int-Ukraine-hfmg\/19Int-Ukraine-hfmg-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[875,163575,8918,209,202,932,442,52,1130,128440,34139,8774],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262150,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262148\/revisions\/262150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}