US President Donald Trump said he plans to speak with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. The conversation, he said, will follow positive discussions between US and Russian officials in Moscow.
"I think it's going very well, with Russia. And we'll see if I have something to announce maybe on Tuesday. Then on Tuesday I'll talk to President Putin. A lot of work was done over the weekend. We want to see if we can end the war. Maybe we can, maybe we can't. But I think we have a good chance."
Trump is trying to persuade Putin to support a 30-day ceasefire proposal, which Kiev accepted last week, as the sides continued to exchange heavy air strikes over the weekend, and Russia has moved ever closer to its goal of punishing Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region.
Asked what concessions are being considered in the ceasefire negotiations, Trump said: "Well, we're going to talk about territory. There's a lot of territory. The situation is much different than it was before the war. We're going to talk about the power plant. There are a number of questions, but I think most of these things, we've more or less discussed with both sides. Ukraine and Russia."
The American president did not provide details, but was likely referring to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which is also the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of risking an accident at the plant with their actions. The Kremlin said Friday that Putin had conveyed a message about the ceasefire plan to it through U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff during talks in Moscow. There is optimism, Russia says, that a deal can be reached to end the three-year war. In separate television appearances on Sunday, Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's national security adviser, Mike Waltz, stressed that there are still challenges that need to be addressed before Russia will accept a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
Asked whether he would accept a deal where Russia is allowed to keep annexed territory in Ukraine, Waltz suggested that it was unrealistic to think they could expel every Russian from every inch of Ukrainian territory.
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