The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said during the night of this Sunday that he plans to speak on Tuesday with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, with the purpose of discussing the end of the war in Ukraine. “I will talk to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work has been done during the weekend, ”the Republican assured the journalists traveling at the Air Force One, on the flight that took the president back to Washington since his usual weekend retirement in Florida.
The spokesman of the Russian leader, Dmitri Peskov, has confirmed on Monday that both leaders will maintain the telephone dialogue, although he has declined to comment on what concrete issues will negotiate: “We never get ahead of events. The conversation, in effect, is preparing, but has not been discussed a priori the content of the dialogue of the two presidents ”.
Trump tries to achieve Putin’s support for a 30 -day fire fire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week. “We want to see if we can put an end to that war. Maybe we can. Maybe we cannot, but I think we have a very good opportunity, ”he said while completing some of the issues that will negotiate with Putin about Ukraine:“ We will talk about land. We will talk about energy plants. ” Little else.
The special envoy of the US president, Steve Witkoff, has been more precise in an interview subsequently granted to CBS News: “There are regions in which we all know that the Russians have their sights on. There is a nuclear power plant that supplies a lot of electricity to Ukraine. You have to solve this. There is also access to ports. There is a possible agreement in the Black Sea. ” Thus, it was alluding to the largest nuclear plant in Europe, Zaporiyia, in Energodar, occupied by Russia while much of the region (including its capital) remains under Ukraine control.
Peskov has avoided commenting if it is true that the Ukrainian authorities have talked with Putin in parallel on the phone, as the Belarusian President, Aleksandr Lukashenko, a great ally of the Kremlin, to glimpse last week. “There is nothing to say about the alleged non -public calls with Putin about the Ukrainian agreement that Lukashenko spoke,” added the spokesman for the Russian leader.
The US government already gave signs at the end of last week to trust the possibilities of a high fire, first, and the end of the war, then, after the conversations that Witkoff held with the Russian president in Moscow. Already on Friday, Trump indicated on social networks that there is “a very good possibility that this horrible and bloody war ends.” He also requested his Russian counterpart for Ukraine troops in the Russian region of Kursk. Subsequently, he insisted: “Good vibrations arrive from Russia.”
Russia regained land in recent months in that region, so the distribution of territories will be one of the issues on the table in the conversation with Putin. “We will talk about land. We will talk about energy plants, ”Trump explained to journalists when asked about concessions. “I think that much of this was already discussed by both parties, Ukraine and Russia. We are already talking about that, distribute certain assets. ”
The head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, had also spoken about the possibilities of Moscow accepting the agreement. Given this scenario, it was described days ago as “cautiously optimistic” after the last contacts, although he acknowledged that the situation of the war is “complex.”
The Foreign Ministers of the G-7, the group of the seven greatest economic powers in the world, which leads the USA, launched, on the other hand, a notice to Russia, advancing that they will apply new sanctions if Putin does not accept the truce offer on the table. Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, summoned a videoconference on Saturday to deal with the situation in Ukraine. “Sooner or later, Putin will have to sit down to negotiate,” he warned. The Russian response, for the moment, goes through Putin’s last message, which only contemplates that Ukrainian soldiers in the Russian region are surrendered.
