Zelensky: "Waiting for details of the ceasefire"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is open to holding elections in Ukraine if his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agrees to a 60-day ceasefire, he told ABC News on Saturday.

- Please tell Putin: give us two months, 60 days total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organize elections, in the channel's "This Week" program.

The statement comes after US President Donald Trump said yesterday that Ukraine "needs a new president", suggesting that it would be possible to reach an agreement on the war if Zelenskyi was replaced.

- He could have many agreements with me but for some reason it will never happen, Trump told reporters on Saturday.

Also in February this year, Zelenskyi opened to hold elections in exchange for a two-month ceasefire.

Just an hour after Zelensky's opening about holding elections, US President Donald Trump writes on Truth Social that a ceasefire for attacks on energy targets in Russia and Ukraine has just come into effect.

He states that both parties have agreed to this and urges them not to break it. He did not say whether the ceasefire has a deadline.

For Zelenskyi, the news came as a surprise:

"The cease-fire announcement was news to me. But if Russia agrees to an energy cease-fire, so will Ukraine. If President Trump has negotiated this with Putin — please let us know when the cease-fire goes into effect — we're ready and will accept it," the Ukrainian president told Axios reporter Barak Ravid, something he reports on X.

On X, the president writes that he spoke with Canada's leader, Finland's leader and and the NATO chief about the announced ceasefire. He writes that he is waiting for further details from the American side.

Russia has not yet confirmed the settlement.