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 stated their cellphone name was going properly.
Trump hopes to persuade Putin to accept a US-proposed 30-day ceasefire and transfer in direction of a everlasting finish to the three-year-old battle.
A White Home official stated the 2 leaders had been on the cellphone since 10am (10pm, Singapore time).
“The decision goes properly, and nonetheless in progress,” Dan Scavino, White Home deputy chief of employees, wrote in a publish on social media platform X.
There was no rapid remark from the Kremlin.
Ukraine has agreed to a US-proposed 30-day ceasefire in Europe’s largest battle since World Struggle II, during which tons of of 1000’s of individuals have been killed or wounded, thousands and thousands have been displaced and cities have been decreased to rubble.
Putin stated 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 direction of a longer-term peace plan, which he has hinted may embody territorial concessions by Kyiv and management of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant.
“Many components of a Closing Settlement have been agreed to, however a lot stays,” Trump stated in a social media publish on Monday. “Every week brings 2,500 soldier deaths, from either side, and it should finish NOW.”
