The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Monday that Russia and Ukraine “will immediately begin negotiations” towards a high fire and the end of his three -year war, speaking after the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin celebrated.
“The negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately,” Trump said in a social publication of the truth after his call with Putin, which lasted two hours.
After the call, Putin said the efforts to end the war were “usually on the right path” and that Moscow was ready to work with Ukraine in a possible peace agreement.
“We have agreed with the president of the United States that Russia will propose and is ready to work with the Ukrainian side in a memorandum in a possible future peace agreement,” Putin told journalists near the Sochi complex of the Black Sea.
There were no immediate comments from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the statement that conversations would begin immediately. A source familiar with the matter previously said that Zelenskiy spoke “for a few minutes” with Trump before the call of the US leader with Putin.
Kyiv has said that he is now ready for a high fire, while Moscow has said that the conditions must be met first. In its publication on social networks, Trump said the Vatican, “as represented by the Pope, has declared that he would be very interested in organizing the negotiations. That the process begins!”
Putin and Trump spoke after the direct conversations last week in Turkiye between Moscow and kyiv, the first since 2022 in the first months of Russia’s invasion to Ukraine. The conversations last week could not agree on a truce.
The United States vice president, JD Vance, previously repeated a warning that Washington could move away from the peace process.
Putin said the memorandum would define “a series of positions, such as the principles of the agreement, the moment of a possible peace agreement.”
He said that if appropriate agreements were reached, there could be a stop the fire, and added that the direct conversations between Russia and Ukraine gave “reason to believe that we are generally on the right path.”
“The main thing for us is to eliminate the root causes of this crisis,” Putin said. “We just need to determine the most effective ways to move towards peace.
He thanked Trump for supporting the resumption of direct conversations between Moscow and kyiv and said Trump pointed out Russia’s support for peace, although the key question was how to move towards peace.
Trump, who has promised to put a quick end to the deadliest war in Europe since World War II, has repeatedly requested the fire after three years when Washington joined other Western countries to assemble Ukraine.
European leaders have said that they want the United States to join them to impose new hard sanctions on Russia for rejecting a fire. The leaders of Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy spoke with Trump on Sunday before their call with Putin.
Putin was talking from Russia’s Black Sea Resort, Sochi, while Trump was in Washington. Shortly before the call, Vance told journalists that Washington acknowledged that there was “some immersion here.”
“And I think the president is going to tell President Putin:” Look, are you really talking? Oh really? Oh really? “Vance said while preparing to start from a visit to Italy.
“I think, honestly, that President Putin doesn’t know how to get out of war,” Vance said.
He said: “Two are needed for tango. I know that the president is willing to do that, but if Russia is not willing to do that, then we will eventually say:” This is not our war. “
“We are going to try to finish it, but if we cannot finish it, we will eventually say: ‘Do you know what? It is worth trying, but we are not doing more.'”
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told journalists that Trump wanted to see the fire, but that he had become “tired and frustrated with both sides of the conflict.”
When asked if a package of secondary sanctions against Russia remains on the table, he said: “I think everything is on the table.”
Putin, whose forces control a fifth of Ukraine and advance, has remained firm in their conditions to end the war, despite Trump’s public and private pressure and repeated warnings of European powers.
