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Zelenskiy Agrees to Halt Strikes on Russian Energy Assets

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine's president, during a news conference with Alexander Stubb, Finland's president, in Helsinki, on March 19, 2025. 

Photographer: Roni Rekomaa/Bloomberg

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy agreed to halt strikes on Russian energy assets, we’re told, an initial step in President Donald Trump’s effort to end the three-year war. Trump said separately that his phone call with Ukraine’s leader was “very good” and that discussions were “on track.”

The Zelenskiy-Trump conversation comes a day after Russia’s Vladimir Putin told the US president he’d be willing to limit attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as a first step but didn’t agree to the full ceasefire that Washington is pushing for.