US President Donald Trump and the Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to speak this week, said civil servants on Sunday, while the European allies of Washington and Kyiv Moscow press on Moscow to accept a ceasefire in the three-year war.
The United States presented a stop this week in the war after conversations in Saudi Aarabia, where Kiev accepted the proposal.
However, Putin did not give a clear answer, instead list a series of conditions and collect “serious questions” about the proposition.
Trump's envoy for the conflict, Steve Witkoff, who met Putin days ago, told DailyExpertNews in an interview on television that he thinks “the two presidents will have a really good and positive discussion this week.”
Earlier, the Moscow said that the American State Secretary Marco Rubio called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and that the couple had discussed “concrete aspects of the implementation of insights” last month at a US-Rorsland-Top in Saudi Arabia.
VolodyMyr Zensky van Ukraine accused the Kremlin of not wanted to end the war on Saturday and warned that Moscow first wanted to improve their situation on the battlefield “before he agreed to a ceasefires.
The Riyad meeting in February was the first meeting at a high level between the United States and Russia since Moscow launched its invasion in February 2022.
“Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio agreed to remain in contact,” said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without reporting the ceasefire chattering by the US.
Spokeswoman Tammy Bruce of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tammy Bruce said on Saturday that the couple “had discussed the next steps” on Ukraine.
She also said that Rubio and Lavrov “agreed to continue to work on recovery between the United States and Russia”.
The Lavrov-Rubio call came hours after the VK organized a virtual summit on Ukraine, in which Prime Minister Keir Starmer Putin accused of “dragging his feet” on the ceasefire.
“The” Yes, but “from Russia is not good enough,” Starmer said and called for a stop for the “barbaric attacks on Ukraine once and for all”.
Kyiv said the next day that Russia launched 90 Iranian Shahed drones on nine Ukrainian regions.
Zensky says that Putin 'lying'
In his response to the cessation -the fire earlier this week, Putin said that the initiative would in the first place benefit from Ukraine and not from Russian troops, who, according to him, “move forward” in many areas.
He called “serious questions” about the initiative.
The proposal came as Russia – which occupied sinks of southern and east -umbrain – Momentum had in some parts of the front.
It has deposited the Ukrainian troops from parts of his Kursk region, where Kiev hopes to retain Russian territory as a potential negotiation ship in future negotiations.
Putin said he wanted to discuss Moscow's worries with Trump in a phone call.
Zensky said on Saturday that by not agreeing with the cessation – the Fires, also went against Trump – who made remaining against Russia – and accused Moscow to try to find manners not to end the war.
He accused Putin of “lying about how a cease -the fire is supposedly too complicated”.
Ukraine said on Sunday that one person was killed by a Russian drone strike in the city of Izyum -in the Kharkiv region, which fell in Russia at the beginning of the Ukraine before he was recaptured by KYIV's armed forces.
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