Donald Trump confirms time he'll speak to Putin for Ukraine ceasefire talks
The US President announced on Truth Social that he has a time set for a call with the Russian hardman - saying "hopefully" a ceasefire will follow
Donald Trump says he will speak to Vladimir Putin on Monday - and hopes to finally agree a ceasefire in Ukraine.
The US President announced on Truth Social that has a phone call scheduled with the Russian hardman for 10am US time on Monday - saying "hopefully" a ceasefire will follow.
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As well as ceasefire talks, Trump said he would be discussing "trade" with the heavily sanctioned country.
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Trump said he would be speaking to Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky after his call with Putin - and then with Mr Zelensky and other Nato allies.
He wrote: "I will be speaking, by telephone, to President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Monday at 10am. The subjects of the call will be stopping the "bloodbath" that is killing on average more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, and trade.
"I will then be speaking to President Zelensky of Ukraine and then with President Zelensky, various members of Nato.
Article continues below"Hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place and this very violent war, a war that should never have happened, will end.
"God bless us all."
READ MORE:MIKEY SMITH: 9 unhinged Donald Trump moments in 24 hours as he says Ukraine cash was 'p****d away'President Trump had faced heavy criticism for choosing to continue with his tour of the Middle East rather than attending peace talks in Turkey on Thursday and Friday.
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Putin, who had only been expected to attend if Trump also did, snubbed the talks, sending Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his place.
This morning, a Russian drone hit a bus evacuating civilians from a front-line area in Ukraineâs northeastern Sumy region, killing nine people, Ukrainian officials said. The strike came hours after the Russian and Ukrainian delegations left Istanbul after agreeing to a large exchange of prisoners of war.
Seven people were also injured in the attack in Bilopillia, a town around 6 miles from Russia's border, three of them seriously, according to local Gov. Oleh Hryhorov and Ukraineâs national police. The Associated Press couldn't independently verify the report. There was no immediate comment from Moscow.
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Zelensky described the attack as âdeliberate killing of civilians,â adding in a post on the Telegram messaging app that "Russians could scarcely not realize what kind of vehicle they were hitting.â
The local media outlet Suspilne said the passengers on the bus were being evacuated from the town when the strike happened. Authorities are working to identify some of the victims, most of them elderly women. A mourning was declared in the town through Monday.
Zelensky lamented the missed opportunity from Friday's peace talks, saying that âUkraine has long proposed this â a full and unconditional ceasefire in order to save lives.â
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"Russia only retains the ability to continue killing,â Zelensky added.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he was âappalledâ by the attack. âIf Putin is serious about peace, Russia must agree to a full and immediate ceasefire, as Ukraine has done,â he wrote on X.
Russia's Defense Ministry claimed its forces hit a military staging area in the Sumy region on Saturday morning, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) southeast of Bilopillia, without mentioning any other attacks there.
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According to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think tank, Ukrainian forces have been inching forward into Russian territory in the Kursk region, just north of Bilopillia.
Russia said last month that its forces had fully reclaimed the Kursk region, nearly nine months after Kyiv's lightning incursion captured more than 100 settlements there and promised to hand Ukraine a bargaining chip in possible negotiations. Ukrainian officials claimed fighting in Kursk was still ongoing.
READ MORE:Join our Mirror politics WhatsApp group to get the latest updates from WestminsterRussian shelling, drones and airstrikes killed at least five other civilians on Friday and overnight across Ukraine's Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions, according to local officials there. Russian forces overnight also launched 62 drones, Ukraine's air force reported. It said 36 of the drones were shot down and six more veered off course.
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The talks in Istanbul on Friday ended after less than two hours without a ceasefire, although both sides agreed on exchange 1,000 POWs each, according to the heads of both delegations, in what would be their biggest such swap. Ukraineâs intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, said on Ukrainian TV Saturday the exchange could happen as early as next week.
But the Kremlin has pushed back against a proposal by Ukraine and its Western allies for a temporary ceasefire as a first step toward a peaceful settlement.
Zelenskyy said he had discussed the outcome of the talks with Trump and the leaders of France, Germany, Britain and Poland. In a post on X from a European leadership meeting in Albania on Friday, he urged âtough sanctionsâ against Moscow if it rejects âa full and unconditional ceasefire and an end to killings.â
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Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to Putin, said both sides also agreed to provide each other with detailed ceasefire proposals, with Ukraine requesting the heads of state meeting, which Russia took under consideration.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Saturday held open the possibility of Putin holding talks with Zelenskyy, providing the agreed prisoner swap goes ahead and if Russian and Ukrainian delegations reached unspecified further âagreements.â
Peskov also told reporters that Moscow will present Ukraine with a list of conditions for a ceasefire but gave no timeframe, or say what needed to happen before Zelenskyy and Putin can meet.
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