U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters he planned to speak with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as he seeks the Russian president’s agreement on a proposal to end the full-scale invasion launched by Moscow in February 2022.
“A lot of work’s been done over the weekend,” Trump said aboard Air Force One on Sunday evening. “We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance.”
His comments came after Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, traveled to Moscow to negotiate directly with Putin last week. Ukraine had earlier agreed to the Trump administration’s plan for a 30-day pause in fighting during talks in Saudi Arabia, on the condition Moscow did so too. Putin has claimed he backed a ceasefire — but set out delaying questions and onerous conditions.
Asked about what sorts of concessions may be discussed in the call with Putin, Trump said: “We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants … we have a lot of it already discussed very much by both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We are already talking about that, dividing up certain assets.”
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke Saturday about the “next steps” in the Ukraine ceasefire proposal.
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