New Delhi, March 25 -- The United States announced on Tuesday that it has reached separate agreements with Ukraine and Russia to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea. It also confirmed a deal between the two have also agreed to not attack each other's energy facilities, in a big breakthrough in the Russia-Ukraine war.

While Russia has agreed for a Black sea ceasefire, it has, however, said that Moscow does not trust Ukraine's President Zelensky. Russia said it could therefore only sign a Black Sea deal if Washington issued an "order" to him to respect it.

"We will need clear guarantees," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"And given the sad experience of agreements with just Kyiv, the guarantees can only be the result of an order ...