The White Home stated Trump had a “excellent and productive” name with Zelenskyy on Thursday and that Trump hopes each Ukraine and Russia will agree subsequent week to a proposed 30-day ceasefire.
White Home spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, talking to reporters at a briefing on Friday, additionally reiterated {that a} Trump assembly with Putin subsequent week within the Center East was not going to occur.
In Kyiv, Zelenskiy’s chief of employees, Andriy Yermak, stated he spoke by phone on Friday with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and different officers in regards to the proposed ceasefire as a part of strikes in direction of a peace settlement.
“The principle focus was the query of the ceasefire and prospects for a peace settlement,” Yermak wrote on Telegram, including that US envoys Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg had additionally taken half. Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov was additionally current.
“Additionally mentioned was the significance of implementing the factors on which our presidents agreed,” Yermak wrote.
