Russia and Ukraine on the road to peace, Trump and Putin talk again

Washington, Mar 18^th. - The presidents of the United States, Donald Trump, and of Russia, Vladimir Putin, will hold a telephone conversation today, the second in just over a month, an issue that focuses here all media attention.

We'll see if we have anything to announce, maybe on Tuesday. "I will speak to President Putin on Tuesday," the US president on board his Air Force One plane anticipated the eve.

He said a lot of work was done over the weekend. "We want to see if we can end that war," Trump added, referring to the war conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has passed the three years.

President Trump even mentioned some of the issues he and Putin will address. We'll talk about territories. We'll talk about power plants, he stressed.

The first conversation between the two leaders took place on February 12, a fact that took not a few by surprise the change of course that began to give the events. Ukraine and Europe immediately felt excluded from participating in a possible peace agreement.

Last week the U.S. President of the Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said that, although much remains to be discussed, he is convinced that Putin and Trump will have a productive conversation.

Witkoff met with Putin in Moscow to assess the offer of a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine, which was then agreed at Saudi Arabia's meeting between Washington and Kiev.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov confirmed the call and that the presidents will deal with several issues on the international agenda with an emphasis on the issue of the resolution of the conflict around Ukraine, although he refused to reveal details by warning that we are never ahead of events. (Text and photo: PL)