President Donald Trump revealed that he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday amid negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump made the announcement while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday during a flight from Florida to Washington, D.C., the Associated Press reported.
“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,” according to the AP.
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