Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after a Sept. 22 meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly that Kyiv is ready for a reciprocal energy ceasefire if Russia stops attacking Ukraine’s electricity, heating, and water infrastructure, according to CNBC (opens in new tab), Al Jazeera (opens in new tab), and Anadolu Agency (opens in new tab) reporting on Wednesday, Sept. 23.
Zelenskyy said Trump did not demand that Ukraine unilaterally halt strikes on Russian energy sites, Anadolu reported. He urged Trump to organize a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin as quickly as possible, asked Trump to engage China’s Xi Jinping given Xi’s influence on Putin, and requested additional Patriot air-defense support ahead of winter, the cited outlets said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted via RIA Novosti in CNBC (opens in new tab)’s account, said a Putin–Zelenskyy meeting before expert-level talks would be a waste of time and restated that Zelenskyy could come to Moscow if he wished. No energy ceasefire or trilateral meeting was announced in the Wednesday coverage.
The Event Log marks the story developing: Kyiv’s readiness is on the record, but Russian acceptance, any trilateral schedule, and winter air-defense deliveries remain unsettled. Both sides have continued strikes on energy-related targets in recent weeks, per the same reporting window.