US President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak with his Russian counterpart for two hours on Tuesday, seeking answers to a potential ceasefire in Ukraine.
It is believed that President Trump is in conversation with President Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, during the reporting of the two scheduled phone calls given him. According to a Kremlin spokesman, the call was because the call lasted from 1300 GMT (0900 US Eastern) to 1500 (1100).
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov recalled before today's debate that there have already been some debates between the US and Russia, which resulted in “a certain understanding.” But he said there were “a lot of problems,” but he said more speeches would be needed, including “bilateral relations and Ukraine reconciliation.”
In principle, all parties involved in the ceasefire meeting of the Ukrainian War (Ukraine, its main sponsors, the US and Russia) have previously stated that they wanted peace, but generally warn that they must be at peace on their own terms.
This position significantly delayed progress towards Ukraine's agreement to follow the path to peace proposed by President Trump last month, leading to the destruction of the oval office as President Volodymia Zelensky attempted to extract last-minute concessions from the United States. Currently, Ukraine appears to agree to go with Trump, but Russia remains in its essential position where peace is preferred, but it must be peace in Moscow.
Certainly, today's Congress President Putin expressed this view alone and said he agreed to a ceasefire “in principle,” but there is a nuance.” Prior to today's talk, Moscow explained that the US sees Ukrainian territory as a “metric of honesty” and Ukraine's Crimean region as Russia's territory.
President Trump himself has shown that he has expressed his determination to overcome these “nuances” and end the “killing field” in Ukraine. “The two presidents are going to have a really good positive argument this week,” envoy Steve Witkoff said.
The president said that part of the debate is “dividing certain assets,” and that “it has already been much debated by both Ukraine and Russia.” These assets included land and “power plants,” he said. It probably means Ukraine's main reactor fleet.
This story is developing, and continues.
