President Donald Trump proposed Wednesday a U.S. takeover of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants as a means of preventing further Russian aggression in the three-year war.
Trump made the proposal in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the leaders’ first conversation since a heated exchange in the Oval Office on Feb. 28. The call came a day after Trump talked on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who agreed to a partial ceasefire covering energy facilities and infrastructure.
“President Trump also discussed Ukraine’s electrical supply and nuclear power plants,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio and national security adviser Mike Waltz said in a joint statement. “He said that the United States could be very helpful in running those plants with its electricity and utility expertise. American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure.”
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