Hours after Trump said Putin had agreed to halt attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, air raid sirens rang out and a drone hit a hospital in eastern Ukraine.

But his Tuesday phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin only underscored that the Kremlin is so far the bigger obstacle.The question now facing Trump is whether to apply real pressure on Putin to make concessions or try to wring more compromises out of Kyiv than he already has.

The Ukrainian president earlier appeared open to Russia’s offer of a partial cease-fire but deeply skeptical, after President Trump spoke with President Vladimir V. Putin.

The White House says a lengthy phone call between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had achieved “movement to peace” in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine