US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Russia and Ukraine \u201cwill immediately start negotiations\u201d toward a ceasefire and an end to their three-year-old war, speaking after he held a call with Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
\u201cNegotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately,\u201d Trump said in a Truth Social post following his call with Putin, which lasted two hours.<\/p>\n
After the call, Putin said efforts to end the war were \u201cgenerally on the right track\u201d and that Moscow was ready to work with Ukraine on a potential peace deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have agreed with the president of the United States that Russia will propose and is ready to work with the Ukrainian side on a memorandum on a possible future peace accord,\u201d Putin told reporters near the Black Sea resort of Sochi.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the statement that talks would begin immediately. A source familiar with the matter earlier said Zelenskiy spoke \u201cfor a few minutes\u201d with Trump before the US leader\u2019s call with Putin.<\/p>\n
Kyiv has said it is ready for a ceasefire now, while Moscow has said conditions must be met first. In his social media post, Trump said the Vatican, \u201cas represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations. Let the process begin!\u201d<\/p>\n
Putin and Trump spoke after direct talks last week in Turkiye between Moscow and Kyiv, the first since 2022 in the early months of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Talks last week failed to agree on a truce.<\/p>\n
US Vice President JD Vance earlier repeated a warning that Washington could walk away from the peace process.<\/p>\n
Putin said the memorandum would define \u201ca number of positions, such as, for example, the principles of settlement, the timing of a possible peace agreement\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said that if appropriate agreements were reached, there could be a ceasefire, adding that direct talks between Russia and Ukraine gave \u201creason to believe that we are generally on the right track\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main thing for us is to eliminate the root causes of this crisis,\u201d Putin said. \u201cWe just need to determine the most effective ways to move towards peace.<\/p>\n
He thanked Trump for supporting the resumption of direct talks between Moscow and Kyiv and said Trump noted Russia\u2019s support for peace, though the key question was how to move towards peace.<\/p>\n
Trump, who has promised to bring a swift end to Europe\u2019s deadliest war since World War Two, has repeatedly called for a ceasefire after three years when Washington joined other Western countries in arming Ukraine.<\/p>\n
European leaders have said they want the United States to join them in imposing tough new sanctions on Russia for refusing a ceasefire. The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Italy spoke to Trump on Sunday ahead of his call with Putin.<\/p>\n
Putin was speaking from Russia\u2019s Black Sea resort of Sochi while Trump was in Washington. Shortly before the call, Vance told reporters that Washington recognised there was \u201ca bit of an impasse here\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think the president\u2019s going to say to President Putin: \u2018Look, are you serious? Are you real about this?\u2019\u201d Vance said as he prepared to depart from a visit to Italy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think, honestly, that President Putin, he doesn\u2019t quite know how to get out of the war,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cIt takes two to tango. I know the president\u2019s willing to do that, but if Russia is not willing to do that, then we\u2019re eventually just going to say, \u2018This is not our war.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to try to end it, but if we can\u2019t end it, we\u2019re eventually going to say: \u2018You know what? That was worth a try, but we\u2019re not doing any more.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump wanted to see a ceasefire, but that he had grown \u201cweary and frustrated with both sides of the conflict\u201d.<\/p>\n
Asked if a package of secondary sanctions against Russia remains on the table, she said: \u201cI think everything\u2019s on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n
Putin, whose forces control a fifth of Ukraine and are advancing, has stood firm on his conditions for ending the war, despite public and private pressure from Trump and repeated warnings from European powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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