WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned strikes to finish the Ukraine conflict on Tuesday (Mar 18) and the White Home mentioned their telephone name was going properly.
Trump hopes to persuade Putin to accept a US-proposed 30-day ceasefire and transfer in the direction of a everlasting finish to the three-year-old battle.
A White Home official mentioned the 2 leaders had been on the telephone since 10am (10pm, Singapore time).
“The decision goes properly, and nonetheless in progress,” Dan Scavino, White Home deputy chief of workers, wrote in a put up on social media platform X.
There was no quick remark from the Kremlin.
Ukraine has agreed to a US-proposed 30-day ceasefire in Europe’s greatest battle since World Warfare II, by which lots of of 1000’s of individuals have been killed or wounded, tens of millions have been displaced and cities have been lowered to rubble.
Putin mentioned final week he supported in precept Washington’s proposal for a 30-day truce however that his forces would struggle on till several crucial conditions were worked out.
Trump hopes to safe progress in the direction of a longer-term peace plan, which he has hinted may embrace territorial concessions by Kyiv and management of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant.
“Many parts of a Remaining Settlement have been agreed to, however a lot stays,” Trump mentioned in a social media put up on Monday. “Every week brings 2,500 soldier deaths, from each side, and it should finish NOW.”