ABC News reported that on March 17, US President Donald Trump said that a phone call between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin was scheduled to take place on March 18 as the Washington administration was trying to end the conflict in Ukraine.
Mr. Trump revealed that over the weekend, he and his team have done a lot of work related to the situation in Ukraine. While uncertain whether his plans can end the conflict completely, President Trump said: I think we have a very good chance.
According to Reuters, Mr. Trump is trying to convince Mr. Putin to agree to the 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week in the context that the Kremlin only supports this proposal but still wants more security guarantees.
When asked about the grants being considered in the ceasefire negotiations, Trump said: We will talk about territory. We will talk about power plants, he stressed, stressing that these are issues that Russia and Ukraine have discussed many times before.
President Trump said that the division of certain assets will also be discussed with both countries at conflict in Eastern Europe.
Meanwhile, both Russia and Ukraine continued to conduct fierce airstrikes against each other over the weekend and Moscow was getting closer to pushing Kiev's forces back from the position they had held for many months in Russia's Kursk region.
Last week, President Putin said Russia would determined to reclaim every piece of land in Kursk - a border area of Russia that was launched by the Ukrainian army in a surprise attack, on a large scale to create a strategic cards with Russia on the negotiation table.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has long affirmed that peace will only come when Ukraine reclaims all the territories that Russia has controlled during the conflict.
Russia previously annexed the Crimea peninsula in 2014. By 2022, Russia will soon add part of Ukraine's Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces, but has yet to take control of all of these territories.
