'See If We Can End That War': Trump Says He Would Speak To Putin Today On Ukraine Peace Deal

Last Updated:March 17, 2025, 23:53 IST

Donald Trump plans to speak with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to push for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. Zelenskyy had already accepted the ceasefire deal as put forth by the US.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump (Photo: AFP)

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Both leaders are likely to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

“I’ll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work’s been done over the weekend," Trump said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One during a late flight back to the Washington area from Florida.

“We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance," the US President said.

Trump is trying to win Putin’s support for a 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week, as both sides continued trading heavy aerial strikes through the weekend and Russia moved closer to ejecting Ukrainian forces from their months-old foothold in the western Russian region of Kursk.

“We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants," Trump said, when asked about concessions.

“I think we have a lot of it already discussed very much by both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We are already talking about that, dividing up certain assets," he added.

On Sunday, officials in the United States had expressed optimism that a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire deal could be reached in “weeks," as Trump and Putin were expected to hold talks soon.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday morning confirmed the plans for the two leaders to speak on Tuesday, but refused to disclose what the conversation will be about, saying that “we never get ahead of events" and “the content of conversations between two presidents are not subject to any prior discussion."

Any such conversation could be a pivot point in the conflict and an opportunity for Trump to continue reorienting American foreign policy. European allies are wary of Trump’s affinity for Putin and his hardline stance toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who faced sharp criticism when he visited the Oval Office a little more than two weeks ago.

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