President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump will hold a phone call between 13:00 GMT and 15:00 GMT, with no time limit on the conversation, according to the Kremlin. The talk is about a 30-day ceasefire of russian-ukrainian war.
“Many elements” of a final deal on Ukraine have been agreed on, but much remains to be done, Trump said ahead of his phone call with Putin.
Russia is expected to lay out its own conditions for a break in the fighting.
“We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants,” Trump told reporters Sunday, when asked about concessions to Moscow in negotiations to end the more than three-year war in Ukraine.
“I think 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,” he added, without giving further detail.
“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,” Trump noted.
As President Trump recently admitted, Putin “holds all the cards.” Washington could and likely will apply even more severe economic pressure on Moscow, as U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett recently suggested. Hassett claimed that there’s “a heck of a lot of things” that Trump is ready to use as part of his “carrots or sticks” strategy to pressure Putin.
Source: cnbc, aljazeera, foxnews
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