Trump made the announcement while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday during a flight from Florida to Washington, D.C., according to The Daily Wire.
“We will see if we have something to announce maybe by Tuesday. I will be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday,” Trump said. “A lot of work’s been done over the weekend. We want to see if we can bring that war to an end.”
On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the two leaders are set to speak but declined to get into the specifics, stating, “We never get ahead of events” and “the content of conversations between two presidents are not subject to any prior discussion.”
U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff met with Putin in Moscow last week for a several-hour-long conversation that he described as “positive.”
“Back before this visit, there was another visit, and before that visit, the two sides were miles apart in where they were,” Witkoff said in an interview with CNN on Sunday. “The two sides are today, a lot closer. We had some really positive results coming out of Saudi Arabia, discussions led by our national security advisor, Mike Waltz and our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.”
Ukraine agreed to accept a 30-day ceasefire following negotiations with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia last week.
