• Trump said a “good opportunity” could end the war in Ukraine.
• Russia demands Ukraine’s neutrality and is excluded from NATO.
• If the ceasefire agrees, Europe and Britain are ready to send peacekeepers.

Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and discuss ending the Ukrainian war after active negotiations between Russian officials in Moscow.

“We want to see if we can make the war end,” Trump told Air Force One reporter during a late flight back to the Washington area from Florida. “Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think it’s very likely that we can.”

“I will talk to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work has been done over the weekend.”

Trump is trying to win backing Putin’s support for a 30-day ceasefire proposal accepted by Ukraine last week as Russia is getting closer and closer to the pop-up of Scottish troops from a few-month-old foothold in western Kurs Russia as both sides continue a massive air strike over the weekend.

The Kremlin did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.

The Kremlin said Friday that Putin sent Trump information on his ceasefire plan through U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, who held talks in Moscow to express “cautious optimism” that a deal could be reached to end the three-year conflict.

In a separate show on the U.S. Sunday TV show, Witkov, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz stressed that there are still challenges before Russia agrees to a ceasefire, not to mention the ultimate peaceful solution to the war.

ask ABC Waltz replied whether the United States accepted a peace agreement that would allow Russia to retain Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, and Waltz replied: “Are we going to expel every Russian from every inch of Ukrainian soil?” He added that the negotiations must be based on “reality.”

Rubio told CBS The final peace agreement will “involve a lot of hard work, concessions from Russia and Ukraine” and it will be difficult to start these negotiations as long as they shoot each other”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that he had a good chance to end the Russian war after Kyiv accepted a 30-day temporary ceasefire.

However, Zelenskiy has always stated that his country’s sovereignty is unnegotiable and that Russia must surrender its occupied territory. Since its invasion in 2022, Russia has occupied the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and now controls most of the four eastern Ukraine regions.

Russia requires “Ironclad” guarantee

Russia will seek assurances of “Ironclad” that NATO countries exclude Keeff from any peace agreements outside of membership, and that Ukraine will remain neutral, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia said in a remark Monday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, who did not mention the ceasefire proposal in an extensive interview with Russian media Izvestia, said any long-term peace treaty in Ukraine must meet Moscow’s requirements.

“We will require Ironclad’s security assurance to be part of this agreement,” Izvestia quoted Grushko as saying.

“Part of these guarantees should be Ukraine’s neutrality, and NATO countries refuse to accept the alliance.”

Putin said his military invasion of Ukraine was because NATO’s spread and expansion threatened Russia’s security. He asked Ukraine to abandon NATO ambitions, Russia maintains control over all Ukrainian territory, and the size of Ukrainian troops was limited. He also hopes to relax Western sanctions and hopes to hold a presidential election in Ukraine, which Keefe said was premature birth during martial law.

Peacekeeping staff

Trump has subverted U.S. policy by moving Moscow to Moscow, saying Ukraine is harder to cooperate than Russia. He held an explosive meeting last month with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, ending with Ukrainian leaders leaving the White House as early as possible.

But Ukraine’s acceptance of the proposed ceasefire now makes Russia’s responsibility avoid Trump’s demands and will test the U.S. president’s view of Putin more positively.

Ukraine’s allies in Europe and the UK said any ceasefire and final peace agreement must be negotiated with Ukraine, which is involved in the negotiations.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday that Western allies outside the United States are stepping up preparations to support Ukraine in a ceasefire with Russia, and the defense chief will strengthen “strong plans” next week.

Both Britain and France have said they are willing to send peacekeeping forces to monitor any ceasefires in Ukraine.

Russia ruled out peacekeepers before the war ended.

“It doesn’t matter which tag to deploy on the NATO contingent on Ukrainian territory: whether it’s the EU, NATO or as a national identity,” Grushko said.

“If they appear there, it means they are deployed in the conflict zone, all consequences for these contingents as parties to the conflict,” he said.

“We can talk about unarmed observers, which is a civilian mission that will oversee implementation or assurance mechanisms in every aspect of the agreement. At the same time, it’s just hot air.”

French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech on Sunday that the Ukrainian peacekeeping force’s station was a matter of Kiev’s decision rather than Moscow.