Both the Kremlin and Washington reported on Wednesday about a phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in which two specific topics were discussed: an offer of Russian help to limit Iran's reserves of enriched uranium and a truce in Ukraine on the occasion of Victory Day over Nazi Germany, which is celebrated on May 9. This is what is known about the conversation.

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The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than four years and Donald Trump's promises to end it have been delayed, with peace negotiations that have been stalled since mid-February. However, a possible ceasefire resonates in a phone call between the US president and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin reported that both leaders discussed a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine, in a friendly and professional conversation, initiated by Russia, that lasted more than an hour and a half.

This phone call is the first publicly announced conversation between the two leaders since March 9, nine days after the United States and Israel started a war with Iran.

Putin proposes a truce for May 9

Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov reported that Putin had proposed a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine for celebrations of May 9, a national holiday commemorating the Soviet Union's role in the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. He stated that Trump reacted positively.

"Trump actively supported the initiative, stating that this holiday commemorates our joint victory over Nazism in World War II," declared the Russian presidential advisor.

Trump, for his part, said, "We had a good talk, I've known him for a long time," and suggested "a little ceasefire" in the Ukraine war. "And I think I could do it," he said during a meeting in the Oval Office with the astronauts of the Artemis II program.

Putin announced a similar truce last year that lasted three days, but was not agreed upon with kyiv.

According to the Kremlin, Trump praised the ceasefire declared by Moscow and kyiv during the Orthodox Easter on April 11 and 12. Although both sides accused each other of ceasefire violations, analysts highlighted that there was no progress on the front or massive drone attacks.

In the conversation, Putin also denounced that kyiv "openly resorts to terrorist methods when attacking civil infrastructure in Russian territory", alluding to the successful drone attacks against refineries and port terminals in the Black and Baltic seas, against which Russian anti-aircraft defenses have been unable to do anything.

Zelensky asks US for details on Russian truce

On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has not been informed by the United States of the proposal for an eventual Russian truce on May 9, asked his team to speak with the White House to "clarify the details."

"We will clarify what exactly it is about, (if it is) a few hours (truce) for a parade in Moscow or something more," said Zelensky, alluding to the traditional military parade organized by the Kremlin every May 9, celebrated in Russia as Victory Day, to remember the Soviet triumph in World War II over the Nazis.

In previous editions, Ukraine threatened to attack during the event.

kyiv's proposal is to declare a "long-term ceasefire" that will help achieve "lasting peace", but the Kremlin rejects it and has only agreed to unilaterally declare occasional truces.

The Ukrainian administration has previously been excluded from talks between President Trump and Putin on matters directly affecting Ukraine.

Iran, the other axis of the call

On the other hand, according to Trump's account, his conversation with Vladimir Putin began with a Russian offer to help resolve the problem of Iran's enriched uranium, one of the most complex points in the negotiations between Washington and Tehran. This issue remains inflexible in the context of tensions in the Middle East and attempts to reach agreements under a fragile ceasefire.

While Iran wants to keep its uranium and its right to enrich it on its own soil, the US considers any amount of highly enriched uranium a direct step towards a nuclear bomb and demands that the Iranian government forget about the possibility of having a nuclear program.

According to the American leader, Putin stated that "he would like to get involved in enrichment, if he can help us achieve it," in apparent reference to limiting Iran's nuclear program, of which Russia is an ally.

"I said I would much rather you get involved in ending the war with Ukraine... I said, before you help me, I want to end your war," was Trump's response.

Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin adviser, did not detail what proposals Putin had made about Iran, but noted that "Russia is firmly determined to make all kinds of diplomatic efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis and (Putin) presented several proposals aimed at settling differences over the Iranian nuclear program."

Putin "also does not want to see them (Iran) possess a nuclear weapon," Trump said.

Moscow, between Tehran and diplomacy

Moscow has previously offered to withdraw enriched uranium from Iran, a country with which it has a "strategic partnership", for which it has described the bombings by the US and Israel as aggression, and the death of the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as a "cynical assassination". On Monday he received the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic, Abbas Araqchi, in Saint Petersburg.

Yuri Ushakov added that Moscow intends to continue "its contacts with Iranian representatives, the leaders of the Persian Gulf countries and also with Israel and, naturally, with the American team of negotiators."

With Reuters and EFE

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