Donald Trump: ‘On Monday I will talk to the Green and Putin about stopping the war …’

« The subject of the conversation will be to stop the bloodshed, which is killed on average by 5000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, and trade, » Trump wrote on his Network Truth Social.

He added that he would then talk to Ukrainian President Volodimir Zeleni and certain NATO members.

« I hope it will be a productive day, that there will be a ceasefire and that this violent war, a war that was never supposed to break out, would end, » Trump wrote.

On the eve of the interview between Trump and Putin, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrova, State Department said.

Rubio welcomed the exchange of prisoners of war, agreed at the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey, said the Ministry’s spokeswoman.

The Secretary of State also reiterated the invitation of Trump for the current truce and end of violence in the Russian war in Ukraine, the statement said.

Russia is looking for the withdrawal of Ukraine from the areas conquered – Ukrainian official

A senior Ukrainian official familiar with the negotiations in Istanbul said earlier on Saturday that Russian negotiators had requested that, before consenting to the cessation of fire, Ukraine withdrew his forces from all Ukrainian areas that Moscow’s.

This request, along with the others expressed on Friday, goes beyond the framework of the Draft Peace Agreement, which he now proposed last month after consultation with Moscow.

The first direct negotiations in Istanbul between the two pages in three years ended with an agreement on the exchange of prisoners of war, without an agreement on the termination of fire.

According to the Ukrainian official, the Russians suggested as a conditions for the peace agreement with the withdrawal of Ukrainian soldiers from Doneck, Password, Herson and Luhanska, and only after that would a break of fire.

Russia mostly controls all these regions, but the Ukrainian army is still struggling in some parts.

Moscow further demands that the international community recognize five areas of Ukraine as Russian. In addition to Doneck, Luhansk, Password and Hesron, a recognition of Crimea, annexed in 2014, is also sought as part of the Russian territory.

In the US proposal, there is a ‘de jure’ (legal) recognition only for Crimea and ‘de facto’ (factual) recognition for parts of other regions under Russian control.

Moscow demanded that all parties be given up to war in war, while now asking Ukraine to get compensation.

The Ukrainian official said that the Russian negotiators had made these demands verbally, not inscribed.

Ukraine said that the Russian negotiating position in Istanbul showed that Moscow is not serious about the achievement of peace, and the European allies seek Kiev from Trump to impose new sanctions on Russia.

Kiev and European Allies have drawn up an alternative proposal that would first be interrupted by fire, and only she started negotiations. They also refuse discussions on territorial issues to a later phase.