Trump and Putin want to « memorandum » – DiePresse.com in front of ceasefire
The conversations should begin immediately. Europe wants to increase pressure on Moscow. After a phone call: Trump favors a peaceful solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump has given the prospect of immediate negotiations in the Vatican about an ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Trump wrote on Trump on Truth after a phone call to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, the conversations should begin immediately – And the Pope offered the Vatican as a negotiating location. Putin had previously agreed to work with Kiev a « memorandum » to prepare a « possible future peace agreement ».
Waffen rest possible
Russia will make a corresponding proposal, Putin said on Monday after a telephone conversation with Trump. The memorandum could « include the principles of a regulation, the time frame of a possible peace agreement and so on, including a possible ceasefire », « if appropriate agreements are made, » said the Russian head of state.
Putin described the two -hour phone call with Trump as « useful » and « very honest » at a press conference. The Ukraine and Russia would now have to « show a maximum will to peace » and « find compromises that satisfy all sides ».
The telephone conversation followed the first direct discussions between delegations from Russia and Ukraine for more than three years that had taken place in Istanbul on Friday. The Istanbul meeting means the resumption of contacts between the two sides, said Putin. It has « the appearance that we are on the right track on the whole ».
Europeans want to increase pressure on Moscow
According to Germany, Europeans are determined to increase the pressure on Moscow after the president’s phone call. Trump had Germany’s Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz as well as the President of Finland, France and Ukraine as well as the Italian Prime Minister and the EU-Commission president taught about his phone call, it said from Berlin. It was agreed to “closely coordinate” the discussed negotiation process.
You want to « closely accompany » Ukraine on the way to a ceasefire. Then the explanation states: « The European participants announced that they increase the pressure on the Russian side through sanctions. »
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen thanked Trump « for his tireless efforts for a ceasefire in Ukraine ». In a post on X, she also wrote that it is important that the United States continued to be involved.
USA and Russia are planning a prisoner exchange
Meanwhile, Moscow and Washington are planning a prisoner exchange. According to Kremlin, nine detained are to be released. According to the Russian agency Interfax, Kreml advisor Juri Uschakow said that Putin and Trump had spoken on their phone call. « This is an important humanitarian campaign, » said Putin’s foreign policy consultant. (APA/Reuters)
