Trump, Putin to discuss Ukraine ceasefire today

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump will speak by phone on Tuesday, as one US official expressed hope the two could agree a Ukraine ceasefire within weeks.

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“There is such a conversation being prepared for Tuesday,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, ahead of the Trump-Putin call, without commenting on what the two leaders would discuss.

Trump has said the two would discuss “land” and power plants: an apparent reference to the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in south Ukraine.

Trump said earlier “a lot of work” had been done between the United States and Russia on settling the three-year Ukraine conflict, and that there was a “very good chance” hostilities would end.

Putin said last week he agreed with the idea of a ceasefire but warned he had “serious questions” about how it would be implemented that he wanted to discuss with Trump.

Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin last Thursday in Moscow to present the details of the joint ceasefire plan, which envisages a 30-day pause in hostilities.

Witkoff told CNN he expected some sort of deal in the “coming weeks.”

The UK government said on Monday that a “significant number” of nations would provide troops to protect any ceasefire in Ukraine as part of a so-called coalition of the willing.