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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Wednesday {that a} halt on vitality strikes within the struggle with Russia could possibly be established rapidly, and that Ukraine would reply in type if Moscow violated the phrases of the ceasefire.
After talking to U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for the primary time since disastrous Oval Workplace talks final month, Zelenskiy stated Kyiv would draw up an inventory of services that could possibly be topic to a partial ceasefire brokered by Washington.
That record, he stated, might embody not solely vitality infrastructure but in addition rail and port services.
“However I perceive that till we agree (with Russia), till there’s a corresponding doc on even a partial ceasefire, I believe that the whole lot will fly,” Zelenskiy instructed reporters at a web based briefing, that means drones and missiles.
The Ukrainian chief described his telephone name with Trump as “in all probability his most substantive and optimistic” talks but, including that he had not felt below strain.
Zelenskiy met Trump for talks on February 28 to debate a minerals deal and the trail to ending the struggle in Ukraine, however the assembly quickly spiralled into acrimony in entrance of the world’s media.
Requested on Wednesday if he nonetheless wished Trump to go to Ukraine, Zelenskiy stated he did and that he believed it could be useful for the U.S. president in his efforts to halt the struggle.
Zelenskiy stated he and Trump mentioned the huge Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant in southeastern Ukraine through the telephone name.
He added that he instructed Trump that Kyiv can be prepared to debate U.S. involvement in modernising and investing within the nuclear plant whether it is returned to Ukraine.
Zelenskiy additionally stated that Ukraine had obtained new provides of a number of F-16 fighter jets, however he declined to say precisely what number of or when precisely the supply had occurred.
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