Zelensky says there is no agreement on the energy truce but promises to respect it if Putin does not attack

As confirmed by himself Volodímir Zelenski This Friday, the cessation of bombings against the energy structure was an issue addressed in the trilateral negotiations between kyiv, Moscow and Washington this week in Abu Dhabi. However, no agreement was reached on the matter.

That is why Zelensky was surprised by Trump’s announcement this Thursday. The head of the White House said he had “personally” asked Putin not to order any airstrikes on kyiv and other Ukrainian cities for a week, to which the Russian president would have agreed. “A lot of people said not to waste my time, that I wouldn’t make it. Not even Ukraine believed it“he boasted.

“If Russia does not attack our energy system, whether generating capacity or anything else, we will not attack your energy system“Zelensky promised this Friday in a meeting with journalists cited by the Ukrainian public agency Ukrinform.

The Ukrainian president has insisted that kyiv wants the war to end and is prepared to take more “de-escalation steps” if Russia does the same. Moscow, however, attacked Ukrainian territory again in the early hours of the morning with more than a hundred drones and a missile aimed at border regions or where direct combat is taking place.

In cities furthest from the front such as kyiv and Odessa, which suffer attacks on their energy infrastructure almost every night, the usual sirens did not sound that announce the imminent arrival of missiles and drones, according to the agency Efe. Millions of Ukrainians have been experiencing power and heating outages for several days for weeks, in the coldest winter in recent yearsdue to massive Russian attacks on its energy system.

Regarding the next round of negotiations with Russia, Zelensky has acknowledged that neither the date nor the place is clearalthough it was expected that this Sunday the diplomatic delegations of both countries and the American mediators would sit face to face again in Abu Dhabi.

“For us it is very important that all the people we agreed upon are present at the meeting, we all expect feedback,” the Ukrainian president stressed. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubioannounced Wednesday that President Trump’s top envoys, Steve Witkoff y Jared Kushnerwould not participate in the weekend meeting in the Emirati capital.

“But the date or place can change, because, in our opinion, something is happening in the situation between the United States and Iran. And those events could probably affect the calendar,” Zelensky said, referring to the US military deployment in the Middle East and the possibility that Trump will finally decide to attack Tehran.