World leaders agreed Friday to a temporary "cessation of hostilities" in Syria. The pause is due to begin in a week's time .
After phone talks between Putin and Obama Sunday, the Kremlin said that both gave a "positive valuation" to the meeting on Syria in Munich on Feb. 11-12, Reuters reported.
"In particular, a support was expressed to efforts of two target groups: for ceasefire and humanitarian aspects," the Kremlin said.
Kremlin added that during the talks, the need to establish close working contacts between Russia's and US defense ministries was underlined, which would allow them to "successfully fight the ISIS (also knows as ISIL or Daesh) and other terrorist organisations."
The Kremlin also said that Putin spoke with Obama about the importance of creating a unite anti-terrorism front. They also discussed the situation in Ukraine, the Kremlin said.