Putin ceasefire talks to discuss 'land and power' plants: Trump

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about ending the Ukraine war, with territorial concessions by Kyiv and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant expected to feature prominently in the talks.

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"We want to see if we can bring that war to an end," the US president told reporters on Air Force One during a flight back to the Washington area from Florida. "Maybe we can, maybe we can't, but I think we have a very good chance."

"I'll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work's been done over the weekend." Trump is trying to win Putin's support for a 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week, as both sides continued trading heavy aerial strikes through the weekend and Russia moved closer to ejecting Ukrainian forces from their months-old foothold in the western Russian region of Kursk.