<figure id="attachment_3029161" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3029161" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3029161" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/78d76eef-russia-military.jpg" alt="Russia military" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3029161" class="wp-caption-text">Russia has shown little inclination to make concessions in the Ukraine conflict. (Russian defence ministry/AP pic)</figcaption></figure>
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said today he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to discuss stopping the war in Ukraine, days after the first face-to-face talks in three years between Russia and Ukraine took place in Istanbul.
Trump had offered to travel to Turkey for the talks while in the Gulf last week if Putin would also attend, but Putin declined to take him up on the offer.
The president has been pressuring Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to a ceasefire in the three-year-old war.
Trump said in a Truth Social post that his call with Putin will be on Monday at 10am.
&#8220;THE SUBJECTS OF THE CALL WILL BE, STOPPING THE &#8216;BLOODBATH&#8217; THAT IS KILLING, ON AVERAGE, MORE THAN 5000 RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS A WEEK, AND TRADE,&#8221; he said.
Trump said he would speak with Zelensky and various members of Nato afterwards.
&#8220;Hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war, a war that should have never happened, will end,&#8221; he wrote.
Russia has shown little inclination to make concessions in the Ukraine conflict.
Russian negotiators at the Istanbul peace talks yesterday demanded Ukraine pull its troops out of all Ukrainian regions claimed by Moscow before they would agree to a ceasefire, a senior Ukrainian official familiar with the talks told Reuters.

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Trump says he will speak with Putin, Zelensky on Monday

The US president has been pressuring Russia and Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire.

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