In a telephone name with US President Donald Trump, Russia’s chief Vladimir Putin mentioned “a ceasefire is possible if the right agreements are reached.”
The Russian chief did not provide an explanation for what the ones agreements have been however mentioned that Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov or the pinnacle of Moscow’s negotiating workforce, Vladimir Ushakov, would give extra main points later.
Putin additionally mentioned that Russia is able to paintings on a memorandum with Ukraine, which incorporates a attainable ceasefire for a hard and fast time frame.
Putin additionally mentioned that contacts between the negotiating teams that met in Istanbul for talks closing week had “resumed.”
Russia’s state-owned information company, TASS, reported that the decision between Trump and Putin had lasted for about two and a part hours.
Growing frustration
Commenting at the name previous on Monday, the White House press secretary mentioned Trump’s function was once “to see a ceasefire.”
Karoline Leavitt additionally admitted that the USA president has “grown very frustrated with both sides” of the conflict.
“Nothing’s going to happen until Putin and I together,” the USA president instructed journalists on 15 May, later including “I think it’s time for us to just do it.”
US Vice President JD Vance additionally mentioned on Monday that Trump meant to press Putin about whether or not he’s in actuality concerned with finishing the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“We realise there’s a bit of an impasse here,” Vance mentioned, including “And I think the president’s going to say to President Putin: ‘Look, are you serious? Are you real about this?'”
He mentioned that he was once no longer positive Putin has a method for finishing the conflict, however added that Washington may stroll clear of seeking to mediate any deal if no significant development in opposition to peace was once made.
Although it was once Putin himself who urged directs talks between Russia and Ukraine, he didn’t settle for a call for participation via Volodymyr Zelenskyy to talks in Istanbul closing week, as a substitute sending a lower-level delegation.
Ukraine’s president met together with his workforce previous on Monday to “evaluate the outcome” of the ones talks, announcing that Kyiv had achieved the whole lot to carry a ceasefire nearer and that Russia was once the impediment to peace.
ADVERTISEMENT“The meetings on May 15–16 demonstrated to the world our readiness to bring peace closer and, accordingly, the need to put pressure on Russia to end the war,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
He mentioned that an important end result of the talks was once an settlement to switch 1,000 prisoners of conflict from each and every facet. Preparations for that switch are underway via Ukraine’s Security Service.
