President Donald Trump will carry out a high -risk call with Vladimir Putin of Russia on Tuesday while trying to gain his approval of a 30 -day fire with Ukraine.
“It’s a bad situation in Russia, and it’s a bad situation in Ukraine,” Trump said Monday. “What is happening in Ukraine is not good, but we are going to see if we can make a peace agreement, a high fire and peace, and I think we can do it.”
That positive evaluation continues its prediction on Sunday night that “we will see if we have something to announce, maybe for Tuesday”, saying that “a lot of work had been done” during the weekend. “Maybe we can. Maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance.”
The Kremlin said Tuesday that he expects the call within a two -hour window from 9 am et. The meeting would be the first known call between Trump and Putin since the peace conversations between US and Ukrainian officials a week ago in Saudi Arabia threw kyiv by agreeing an immediate and temporary stop to hostilities if Russia did the same.
Since then, Putin has not been committed to the proposal while the fight intensifies in Kursk.
Putin said it was “for” a high fire but expressed concerns and established its own conditions, such as certain security guarantees. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Russian leader of obstructing peace and “prolonging” war.
Trump said Monday that the only reason he was involved in negotiations is “for humanity.”
“Many people are being killed there. And we had to make Ukraine do the right thing. It was not an easy situation. You must see a little sight of the oval office, but I think they are doing the right thing at this time. And we are trying to reach a peace agreement. We want to obtain an Alengo and then a peace agreement,” he said.
Zelenskyy of Ukraine will monitor the conversation between Trump and Putin with caution and great interest, said a Ukrainian official about the matter to ABC News.
“We agree on the proposal of Alto El Fuego de USA. UU. With zero conditions, and if Putin will start playing with Trump establishing demands, it will not work,” added the source.
President Donald Trump at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on March 13, 2025, and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, at the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 13, 2025.
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A key question in the future is how far Trump will arrive to press Russia to accept fire and, ultimately, put an end to the three -year conflict, which began when Putin’s forces invaded their sovereign neighbor.
The Trump administration gave drastic measures to stop military aid and stop some intelligence sharing with Ukraine after the oval office clash between Trump and Zelenskyy. These two tools resumed after Ukraine agreed to stop the fire last Tuesday.
In addition, US officials have said that it would be unrealistic for Ukraine to return to their borders before the war and expressly ruled out their offer for NATO membership.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has not publicly made Putin demands.
Trump said Sunday that land and energy plants were on the table for Tuesday’s discussion, as well as “dividing certain assets” between the two countries.
“Well, I think we will be talking about earth. It is a lot of land. It is very different from what it was before wars, you know. And we will talk about the ground, we will talk about the electrical plants. That is a great question, but I think we have already discussed a lot, on both parties,” he told journalists in the Air Force.
Trump said last week that his administration could increase the pressure on Russia, but he hoped it was not “necessary.”
“There are things you could do that they would not be pleasant in a financial sense,” he said. “I can do financial things that would be very bad for Russia. I don’t want to do that because I want to get peace.”
Oleksiy Pshemyskiy and Michelle Stoddart of ABC News contributed to this report.
