Day After Trump-Putin Call, Ukraine’s Zelensky Dials US President

<p class=”emotion-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0″ data-type=”paragraph”>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday began the highly anticipated phone call with Donald Trump to discuss the details of the US President’s conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.</p>
<p class=”emotion-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0″ data-type=”paragraph”>”The president of Ukraine is having a conversation by telephone with US President Donald Trump,” Zelensky’s spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov said, according to news agency AFP.</p>
<p class=”emotion-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0″ data-type=”paragraph”>The call between the two world leaders comes a day after the&nbsp;US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for over two hours to discuss the 30-day ceasefire proposal in Ukraine.</p>
<p class=”emotion-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0″ data-type=”paragraph”>The two leaders agreed to pause attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine even as Russia said that a pause in foreign aid to Ukraine would be a key element to any peace agreement.</p>
<p>Zelensky had said that even though he supports a 30-day truce in attacks on energy infrastructure but he needed more details before Kyiv is fully on board.</p>