Donald Trump said that Russia and Ukraine had agreed “immediately” to start high fire conversations on Monday after the president of the United States spoke for more than two hours by phone to the Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Putin said separately that he was ready with Ukraine in a memorandum towards a possible peace agreement, but did not reach Trump the unconditional high the 30 -day fire he was looking for.
Trump had established the call in the midst of growing frustrations with Moscow and kyiv after an electoral campaign of promising kis to end the three -year conflict in 24 hours.
“Completed my two -hour call with President Vladimir Putin de Russia. I think it was very good,” Trump said in his real social network.
“Russia and Ukraine will immediately begin negotiations towards a high fire and, more importantly, the end of the war.”
Trump added that the “tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent.”
The Vatican, where Pope Leo XIV was recently chosen as the first American pontiff would be “very interested” in organizing Russia-Ukraine conversations, Trump added.
The Kremlin leader seemed to give one of the most concrete signals so far of being ready to discuss the end of Moscow’s invasion of his neighbor, who has allied himself with the United States and the European Union.
“It was very information and very open and, in general, in my opinion, very useful,” Putin told the Russian media after the call.
‘Correct road’
Putin said Russia “would propose and will be ready to work with the Ukrainian side in a memorandum on a possible future peace agreement that defines a variety of positions.”
The Russian president added that the conversations with kyiv last week in Istanbul had put the world “on the right path” to resolve the conflict, but said that more commitments were still needed.
According to reports, Trump spoke with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zensky, before the call with Putin.
In social networks, Trump said he had “informed” Zensky, president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Finland of the resumption of peace conversations in a call immediately after his conversation with Putin.
With Ukraine saying that Russia launched an attack of “record” drones on the weekend, the White House had previously warned that Trump was “tired and frustrated” with the peace efforts of slow movement.
Vice President JD Vance reiterated that Trump was losing patience.
“Here there is a little dead point,” Vance told journalists when he left Rome, where he with Pope and Zensky. “If Russia is not willing to do that, then we will all do it, this is not our war.”
Trump has directed much of his frustration towards Ukraine, including the duration of a row of the Oval office with Zensky in February.
But while he refrains widely criticizing Putin, he has also pointed to the groups that the Russian president can be chaining it.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that fresh sanctions remained an option if Russia does not reach an agreement.
Trump was still waiting to meet Putin, he added, after the president of the United States said that face -to -face conversations were the only way to end the conflict.
Trump had made the possibility of joining the Peace conversations of Russia-Ukraine in Istanbul last week, there was the possibility of meeting Putin, but the Russian leader did not appear.
Zensky refreshed his impulse for a high “complete and unconditional” fire before the call.
‘Killing’
Istanbul’s conversations last week were the first direct negotiations between the sides for three years, and US officials also attended. But the meetings ended without a commitment to a high fire.
After the negotiations, Trump announced that he would speak with Putin in an attempt to end the “bloodbath” in Ukraine, which has destroyed great stripes of the country and displaced millions of people.
Since then, Ukraine allies have accused Putin of ignoring calls to a truce and pressing for new sanctions against Russia.
On the ground, the Russian army continued its attacks.
Moscow said that their forces had captured two villages in the regions of eastern Ukraine Sumy and Donetsk. Russia also triggered 112 drones in Ukraine during the night, 76 or were repelled, said the Ukraine Air Force.
