Zelenskyy Proposes Energy Ceasefire with Russia

(MENAFN) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Monday that Kyiv has formally put forward a mutual ceasefire on energy infrastructure strikes — transmitting the offer directly to Moscow through Washington.

"If Russia is ready to stop strikes on our energy sector, we will be ready to respond in kind. This is our proposal — conveyed through the Americans — and the Russian side has it," Zelenskyy said.

Beyond the energy proposal, the Ukrainian leader disclosed that Kyiv is actively engaged with the American side on drafting key diplomatic documents, sharpening its negotiating positions, and reinforcing the architecture of potential security guarantees.

"Security guarantees are the key to truly ending the war, to achieving a lasting peace, and to creating the political and legal conditions necessary to bring the war to an end and to build public trust in the process," he said.

Zelenskyy stressed that communication between Kyiv and Washington is near-constant — spanning multiple levels of government — with a singular focus on delivering tangible outcomes.

"There is currently a lot of skepticism about diplomacy — not only here — regarding Russia's war against Ukraine. But the outcome, and whether there will be one at all, depends on all participants in the diplomatic process," Zelenskyy added.

He further noted that Ukraine is working "substantively" alongside the American side on documentation and proposals, signaling that behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity remains intensive despite the public pessimism.

The announcement comes after earlier US-brokered peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow stalled earlier this year, derailed when Washington pivoted its attention toward a military operation in the Middle East — effectively freezing a process that had only just begun to gain momentum.

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