Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin and American counterpart Donald Trump would speak on the phone on Tuesday, as an American official hoped that both could agree on Ukraine’s ceasefire within weeks.
Trump stated that the first “much work” was done to settle the three -year Ukraine conflict between the United States and Russia, and that a “very good chance” would end up hostility.
Putin said that last week he agreed to the idea of a ceasefire, but he warned that he had “serious questions” as to how it would be implemented to discuss with Trump.
The Kiev has agreed to the ceasefire, while his European colleagues have criticized Putin, who is not committed to unconditional and immediate stop in the fight, Britain has accused the Russian leader of “pulling his feet”.
“Such conversations are being prepared for Tuesday,” Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov told reporters including AFP before the Trump-Putin call, what the two leaders had discussed.
Trump said that both would discuss “land” and power plants: a clear reference to the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear plant in South Ukraine.
Russia occupies the health of southern and eastern Ukraine.
The US President last month spoke to Putin last month, which broke the Western efforts to separate the Russian leader until his army kept his Ukraine aggressive.
Trump’s special envoy Steve Witchoff met Putin in Moscow last Thursday and introduced a details of the joint ceasefire scheme, which envisages a 30-day stagnation in enmity.
Witcoff told CNN that he expected some deal in the “coming weeks”.
Ukraine’s Volodimier Zelancesi reacted angrily to Putin’s statements, accusing him of prolonging the fight.
On Saturday, Zelansky warned that Moscow wanted to “improve his position on the battlefield” before agreeing to any ceasefire.
Russia is moving forward
Moscow has been moving forward in many areas of the front for more than a year.
On Monday, Russia claimed that its armies had caught Stepov-a village in the southern Zaporizhia region of Kuraine-although Open-SOS Batalfield Maps showed it out of the control of Moscow.
Russia has also mounted a major counter aggressive against Ukrainian troops in its cushion region in the last two weeks.
Moscow returned to the main city last week that Ukraine seized in its summer in 2024 depression, Sudza and its surrounding areas.
Russia has said that it has shifted several hundred citizens who were earlier trapped in the Kiev-accepted areas.
Andry Climenco was one of them. He spoke to AFP after leaving his house in Zemosyya village outside Sudiz on Friday, as the Russian forces pushed the land to run again, and are now living in a displacement center.
“The aircraft were dropping bombs near my vegetable patch. The 52 -year -old told AFP, “I almost died due to bombs, mortar fires and drones.
Ukraine has admitted that it is in a difficult position in the region, but denies that its soldiers are surrounded.
Zelancesi replaced his army chief general staff last week, as Kiev’s front line soldiers continued to struggle.
Fire exchange
Last week, after a brief lulla in a drone fire, both sides carried forward the attacks on Monday.
Ukrainian forces began a drone attack on southern Russia, spewing a blast in an oil refinery, while Moscow started a barrage of about 200 drones against Ukraine.
Governor Oleg Kipar said that about 500 people were lost in the southern Udessa in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa, and one person was injured.
Putin said last week that he would withdraw a ceasefire, but only if it “leads long -term peace and addresses the root causes of the crisis”.
Putin’s demands are that Ukraine never joins the NATO Military Alliance, that European peace soldiers are not deployed in the Ukrainian region, and Moscow is allowed to keep all the lands currently living.
Since Russia seized Crimea in 2014 and launched its full -scale aggressive against Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow now controls around the fifth of Ukraine.
Zelansky has pushed Putin’s demands back, saying that Russian leaders do not really want peace.
In the Kursk region, 35 -year -old displaced resident Yecterina Panova said she was hoping that Trump could mediate.
“We really want America to somehow impress Russia’s friendship with Ukraine,” she told AFP.
“Both are Russia and Ukrainian Slavs. It is running some types of frickide. ,
