Trump and Putin have reached ‘consensus’ on Ukraine – Witkoff

The US and Russia have agreed that Moscow and Kiev should pause attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure, according to President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff.

He made his comments following a phone call between Trump and Putin on Tuesday. The diplomat had previously had a lengthy conversation with Putin in Moscow on March 13.

The envoy highlighted that Putin had agreed to Trump’s proposal to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 30 days and backed a ceasefire in the sea.

“Up until recently, we really didn’t have consensus around these two aspects – the energy and infrastructure ceasefire and the Black Sea moratorium on firing – and today we got to that place, and I think it’s a relatively short distance to a full ceasefire from there,” Witkoff told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday evening.

“I’m certainly hopeful that the Ukrainians will agree to it. We have some details to work out, of course,” he added…