His communication and on Tuesday is expected to shed light on the exact point where the negotiations on the proposal made by the US for a 30 -day truce in Ukraine.
Caroline Levit sent an optimistic message ahead of the phone call. “We were never closer to peace as at the moment,” said the White House spokesman.
“I will not go ahead of these negotiations, but I can say that we are 10 yards from peace,” Levit told reporters on Monday. “And we have never come closer to a peace deal than we are at the moment. And the president, as you know, is determined to complete it. “
What will the two leaders discuss
Of course, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. “We want to see if we can end this war”Trump told reporters at the Air Force One during a flight to the Washington area from Florida. “Maybe we can, maybe not, but I think we have a very good chance” Complete.
Asked what concessions are examined, Trump said: “We will talk about land. We will talk about power plants … We are already talking about it, distributing certain assets.”
Trump did not give details, but it appears to have referred to Russia’s occupied facilities in Ukraine, Europe’s largest nuclear plant. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other that they are risking an accident at the factory.
The unknown content of the message
White House spokesman Carolin Levitt said on Monday that “there is a power plant located on the border of Russia and Ukraine and was in the Ukrainians and he (Trump) will touch him in his phone call”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Monday that Putin would talk to Trump by phone, but refused to comment on Trump’s observations on land and power plants.
The Kremlin reported on Friday that Putin sent to Trump a message about his plan to cease fire through American envoy Steve Whitkov, who had talks in Moscow, expressing a “restrained optimism” that a deal could be reached.
In their distinctive appearances on Sunday TV shows in the United States, Witten, Foreign Minister Marko Rubio and Trump National Security Advisor Mike Walts stressed that there are still challenges that need to be resolved before Russia is more likely to agree.
Russia will pursue ‘unmistakable’ guarantees
Ukraine President Volodimir Zelenski said he sees a good opportunity to end the war after the US proposal was accepted by a 30 -day fire.
However, Zelensky has steadily stated that his country’s sovereignty is not negotiable and that Russia must deliver the territories it has occupied. Russia occupied the Crimean peninsula in 2014 and is now controlling most of the four eastern Ukrainian regions since it invaded the country in 2022. Zelenski has not publicly responded to Walts’ observations.
Russia will seek “unmistakable” guarantees in any peace agreement that NATO states will exclude Kiev from integration and that Ukraine will remain neutral, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grusco said in the Russian Foreign Minister.
“We will demand that part of this agreement be the unsettled security guarantees,” Izvestia said, citing Grusco. Putin says his actions in Ukraine are intended to protect Russia’s national security from what he considers aggressive and hostile west, in particular the expansion of NATO to the east. Ukraine and its Western partners say that Russia is waging an unobtrusive aggressive war and an imperial type of land.
