At 3pm Italian time, Donald Trump speaks with Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the peace plan in Ukraine .

Yesterday's phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sealed a truce in Russian attacks on power plants, but it had barely ended when missile sirens sounded in Kiev and the air defense went into action .

Putin is not ready to "end" the war and the conditions set "aim to weaken Ukraine", said President Volodymyr Zelensky in the evening , not hiding the irritation of the Ukrainian leaders over the outcome of the meeting in which the Russian president effectively rejected the American proposal for a total 30-day ceasefire that Kiev had instead accepted in Jeddah.

Ukraine also considers its status, which Russia would like to condition on neutrality, a red line and does not accept to put on the negotiating table a plan to downsize its military apparatus.

In short, a step forward has been made but we cannot yet speak of a truce, given that immediately after the Trump-Putin phone call Kiev was bombed by Russian forces. And given that as a prerequisite for the ceasefire Putin has asked for a halt to arms supplies to Ukraine .

But in the two-and-a-half-hour phone call the two leaders agreed on a roadmap to a "lasting peace" that will begin with a 30-day truce in raids on infrastructure, starting with energy .

"The Russians are not ready to end this war, they are not even ready for the first step, which is a ceasefire," Volodymyr Zelensky commented hotly, denouncing that "Putin's whole game is to weaken" Ukraine and announcing that Kiev will continue to fight in Kursk as well.

The Ukrainian president thinks " it would be right for us to have a conversation with President Trump and learn the details of what the Russians offered the Americans or what the Americans offered the Russians ."

Trump this morning denied that Putin had asked him to stop the supply of weapons. But .