Trump says he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday

President Trump said he was planning to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about ending the war in Ukraine after three years of fighting raised by Russia’s full invasion of its neighbor.

“A lot of work has been carried out during the weekend. We want to see whether we can finish,” Mr. Trump told reporters on the Air Force on Sunday evening. “Maybe we can. Maybe we cannot, but I think we have a very good chance.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the plans on Monday morning, but he did not provide more details.

The scheduled call comes a week after the delegates from the United States and Ukraine met in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and announced a A 30 -day ceasefire proposal. While Putin said he I accepted the idea To a ceasefire in principle, he did not adhere to a deal and said that more discussions were needed.

“The same idea is correct, and we definitely support it,” Putin said at a press conference in Moscow last week. “But there are issues that we need to discuss, and I think we need to discuss them with our American colleagues and partners.”

President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkeov, Putin met Last week. “We have made a lot of progress in this meeting,” He said Witkev On “confronting the nation with Margaret Brennan” Sunday. “We talked about a lot of details, and I refer to the big gap that existed between Ukraine and Russia before the opening, and where we are today. We have narrowed the issues between these two parties, and made a lot of progress, in my opinion.”

Mr. Trump said he expected his invitation to Putin to include specific assets discussions.

“We will talk about Earth. We will talk about power plants. This is a big question,” said Mr. Trump on the Air Force. “But I think we have a lot of them already discussed, through both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We are already talking about it, we divide some assets, and they were working on it.”

After its large -scale invasion was launched to Ukraine in 2022, Russia included four regions illegally, which is not fully controlled by: Donetsk, Luannsk, Jeruson and Zaborzvia. Zaporizhzhia is where there is the largest nuclear factory in Europe.

Russia also included Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.