"Putin expresses 'understanding' to Trump's proposal to ease tensions in Ukraine war"

(Johannesburg = Yonhap News) Correspondent Na Confirmation = Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed 'understanding' the president's proposal to ease war tensions in Ukraine during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, a Kremlin spokesman said.

According to Russia's TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies on the 10th (local time), Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters regarding the phone call between the two leaders the previous evening, "The Russian president expressed understanding of some of the proposals made by the United States regarding measures to ease tensions."

Spokesperson Peskov explained that, at President Trump's suggestion, most of the call time was focused on resolving the Ukraine issue.

It is reported that issues related to the war between the United States and Iran were also discussed.

Spokesperson Peskov said that President Putin, in coordination with Iranian President Massoud Fezeshikian, conveyed to President Trump Iran's plan for a possible solution to the war with Iran.

President Putin met twice with President Fezeshkyan on the occasion of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Summit and the Caspian Sea Environmental Summit held in Turkmenistan on the 9th.

Spokesperson Peskov added that during one of these meetings, President Putin informed President Fezeshkyan that he was scheduled to have a phone call with President Trump.

President Trump said on the social media TruthSocial the previous day, "We have concluded very successful discussions with President Putin. Russia has agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the U.S. and global markets, an additional 500,000 tons in November, and 1 million tons immediately thereafter."

The United States has banned the import of Russian energy since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but it has been interpreted as seeking to stabilize energy prices by temporarily lifting some of the sanctions against Russia to address deteriorating public sentiment due to high oil prices ahead of the midterm elections in November.

As President Trump partially eased sanctions against Russia to secure the supply of Russian diesel, some pointed out that the US pressure on Russia related to the war in Ukraine may be weakening.

“The Russian side reaffirms its readiness to supply crude oil and petroleum products to the U.S. and world markets,” Putin said in a statement released by the Kremlin.

In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy responded to the social media platform

Meanwhile, airstrikes by Ukraine and Russia targeting each other continued on this day.

Ukraine's National Disaster and Disaster Agency announced that an aerial bomb dropped by the Russian military hit residential buildings in Zaporizhia that day, killing at least 15 people, including three children, and injuring 16, the Associated Press reported.

President Zelensky also repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with the agreement between the United States and Russia by reporting to

DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, said in a statement that Russian airstrikes caused a large-scale power outage in the capital, Kiev.

Local officials claimed that four civilians were killed and five injured in a Ukrainian attack in the Russian-occupied and controlled Luhansk region of Ukraine.