The American president said in the night of Sunday to Monday to Monday, that he would speak Tuesday, March 18 to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as part of the American-Russian rapprochement to put an end to the war in Ukraine.
“I will speak to President Putin on Tuesday,” said Donald Trump to journalists aboard the presidential plane, adding that “a lot of work has been done”. “Many things have already been discussed with both parties, Ukraine and Russia. Evoking” land “and” energy production factories “, he stressed:” We are talking about this, sharing of certain assets “.
On Sunday, the American special envoy had already announced that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were to meet in the coming days. “Many things must still be discussed but I think the two presidents will have a really good and positive discussion this week,” said Steve Witkoff, that Moscow, kyiv and Washington “, on CNN, Kiev and Washington.
The Kremlin said on Friday that Vladimir Putin had given the American emissary a message to Donald Trump about his 30 -day truce proposal, already endowed by Ukraine.
“Next steps”
On Saturday, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had mentioned on the phone the “next steps” of the diplomatic process aimed at ending the Russian-Ukrainian war. The two men have “discussed the next stages of monitoring recent meetings in Saudi Arabia and agreed to continue working to restore communication between the United States and Russia,” said the State Department, without other details.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its part noted that the two men had addressed “the concrete aspects” of monitoring Jeddah talks and that they were “agreed to stay in touch”, without mentioning the cease-fire project.
While the United States puts pressure on Russia to accept a cease-fire with Ukraine, Vladimir Putin posed maximalist conditions such as Ukraine’s sale of five regions annexed by Moscow, the abandonment of the ambitions of this country to join NATO and the dismantling of Ukrainian power in place.