Donald Trump wants to talk to Putin about ceasefire on Monday

In the efforts to end the Russian attack war against Ukraine, US President Donald Trump wants to make calls again with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin on Monday. Trump announced that it is planned for 10:00 a.m.

Afterwards he wanted to speak to the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj and representatives of the NATO member states, the US President continued. “Hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire comes about and this very violent war (…) comes to an end,” he wrote. The conversation should also deal with trade questions. The entire contribution was written in capital letters.

The US President has declared the goal of ending the Russian attack war in Ukraine. On Friday, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met in Turkish Istanbul for the first time in three years to negotiate peace. Both sides were able to agree on a large prisoner exchange, but the big throw was not successful – also because Putin was missing at the meeting he proposed himself. There was no agreement on the subject of ceasefire.

The Ukrainian President Selenskyj accused Putin of avoiding a direct conversation. The politically second -row Russian negotiators were not authorized to negotiate about a ceasefire.

Putin had ordered the war against the neighboring country in 2022 to force Ukraine back into the Russian sphere of influence. Ukraine defends itself against the invasion with western help, but it recently got on the defensive on several front sections-even after the US government has significantly reduced its military support for Ukraine under Trump.

In view of Putin’s absence, Trump herself also steamed the expectations of the meeting in Istanbul. Something will only happen when he and Putin personally meet, said the head of the White House. Immediately afterwards, the Kremlin countered the expectations of a quick meeting. Such a summit is necessary, but it must be well prepared, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskow. The planned phone call, which follows a call from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrow, is likely to be part of this preparation.

In the weeks before the meeting in Istanbul, high-ranking representatives of the US government had met several times with counter parts from Moscow and Kiev in various locations to advance the talks. Trump had announced early on that he wanted Putin to meet in person at a later date. During his Middle East trip last week, it looked as if this could actually happen in the talks in Istanbul. But that did not happen.

The two presidents have been on the phone twice since Trump’s took office in January: mid -February and most recently in mid -March. In the conversation in March Putin agreed to set all attacks on the energy infrastructure in Ukraine for 30 days if Kiev did this too. However, he did not get involved in a general ceasefire in the war. The negotiations on this continued after the telephone call of the two heads of state.

Trump has made intensive contact with Russia again since he took office after, between Washington and Moscow under Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden, a few radio silence had been stilling.

Biden had tried to isolate the Russians internationally three years ago after their marching in Ukraine and to put on their knees with far -reaching sanctions and punitive measures to end the war. Trump, on the other hand, had already sought proximity to Putin during his first term (2017 to 2021) and recently brought the Kreml boss out of isolation.