United States President Donald Trump say He will talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about ending the Ukraine War with territorial concessions from Kiev and the control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which was expected to appear in the conversations.
« We want to see if we can finish this war, » the United States President said to Air Force journalists during a return flight to the Washington area DC in Florida Sunday. « Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good opportunity.
« I will talk to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work has been done over the weekend. »
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Monday that Putin would talk to Trump on the phone, but refused to comment on Trump’s observations about land concessions and power plants.
« Yes, this is the case, » he said during a news. « This conversation is preparing for Tuesday. »
Trump tries to win Putin support During a 30 -day resignation proposed by Ukraine last week, while both parties continued to negotiate heavy aerial strikes over the weekend and Russia approached to expel Ukrainian forces since its months in the Russian Border Region of Kursk.
Trump, asked what concessions were considered in the fire negotiations, he said: « We will talk about the ground. We will talk about electric power plants. … We are already talking about this, dividing certain assets. »
Trump did not give details, but probably referred to the nuclear installation of Zaporizhzhia, occupied by Russian, in Ukraine, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of attacks that have risked an accident on the plant.
Jabbari’s dorsa of Jazeera, dorsa Jabbari, said that one of the main discussion themes are expected to be the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
« This is the largest nuclear installation in Europe, which was under Russian control at the beginning of the conflict in March 2022. Since then, it has been closed, but remains under the control of Russian forces and the organization of nuclear energy in the state of Russia, Rosatom, » he said.
« There is also the proposed temporary cessation. Russia argues that any such agreement must include safety guarantees for her side, which means that she does not want Ukraine to use the opportunity to regroup and restart the conflict, » he added.
Kremlin said on Friday that Putin had sent Trump a message about his cessation plan through American envoy Steve Witkoff, who had talks in Moscow, expressing « prudent optimism » that an agreement could be reached to end the three-year conflict.
In separate appearances on Sunday television programs in the United States, Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz, emphasized that there were still challenges to work before Russia accepted a cessation of fire, much less a final resolution in the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that he saw a good chance of ending the Russian war after Kiev accepted the United States proposal for a 30 -day temporary cessation.
However, Zelenskyy has constantly said that the sovereignty of his country is not negotiable and Russia must deliver the territory he has taken. Russia seized the Crimea Peninsula in 2014 and now controls parts of four regions of the East and southern Ukraine since it invaded the country in 2022.
Putin said that his actions in Ukraine aim to protect Russia’s safety against what throws as aggressive and hostile west, in particular the expansion east of NATO. Ukraine and its western partners said that Russia is making a war of aggression without evidence and an imperial style land.
Moscow has demanded that Ukraine leave its NATO ambitions, Russia maintain control of the entire Ukrainian territory that has been taken and the size of the Ukrainian army is limited. It also wants western sanctions to facilitate and presidential election in Ukraine, which Kyiv said it is premature while martial law is in force.
The head of the European Union’s foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, said on Monday that the conditions required by Russia to accept a cessation of fire showed that Moscow does not really want peace.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday that western allies that were not the United States increased preparations to support Ukraine in case of cessation of fire with Russia, with defense chiefs that were « sturdy plans » next week.
Britain and France have said they are ready to send a peace maintenance force to monitor any cessation of fire in Ukraine.
The new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who met with his French counterpart, President Emmanuel Macron, on Monday in Paris, also promised to support Ukraine’s sovereignty.
In the first lines, the Ukrainian forces launched a Drone attack in southern Russia during the night, causing a fire to a oil refinery, according to local authorities, as Moscow launched a barrier of about 200 drones against Ukraine.
Astrakhan’s governor Igor Babushkin said that the staff of a « fuel and energy » complex was evacuated before the attack, which caused a great combustion.
« A person was injured during the attack. The victim was taken to the hospital, » Babushkin wrote on social media.
The last bombing occurs when Ukraine criticized Russia for refusing to accept the cessation of the United States-proposed fire without any condition.
Moscow also launched its own 174 drones barrier to Ukraine, where the air defense units decreased in 90, including the Shahed Drone designed Iranian, said the Air Force.
About 500 people from southern Odesa, in southern Ukraine, lost power due to attacks and a person was injured, said governor Oleg Kiper, who added that several buildings were damaged, including a preschool.
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