Both the US and Russian sides have confirmed that Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will hold another phone call on Tuesday. Trump previewed that he plans to continue discussions to end the war in Ukraine, and he cryptically referenced negotiators having already discussed "dividing up certain assets."

"I’ll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work’s been done over the weekend," Trump told reporters on Air Force One while en route back from Florida to Washington.

"We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance," Trump said.

The US is still proposing a 30-day temporary ceasefire, which Putin has already questioned as a likely means by which Ukrainian forces can simply rearm, replenish, and regroup.

"We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants," Trump said when asked by a reporters about concessions. "I think we have a lot of it already discussed very much by both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We are already talking about that, dividing up certain assets."

Trump's special envoy who met with Putin in Moscow last week, Steve Witkoff, has said that the Russian president "accepts the philosophy" of Trump’s ceasefire. Still, the Kremlin has repeatedly said it will not accept anything that's a short-term solution.

Putin and Trump had an initial phone call spanning 90-minutes less than a month after Trump was inaugurated, to talk about moving toward a potential Ukraine peace plan. 

The Russian Defense Ministry has meanwhile indicated that Moscow will demand Kiev's neutral status and that NATO can never accept Ukraine for membership.

Trump confirming the next phone call with Putin, to take place Tuesday...

This appears to be Moscow's only and main 'security guarantee' that it wants in place: "Part of these guarantees should be the neutral status of Ukraine, the refusal of Nato countries to accept it into the alliance," Russia's deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko said Sunday. Of course, this is to include a ban on NATO building up military infrastructure in Ukraine as well.

But other Western allies are challenging the progress made, and are likely even trying to sabotage any potential deal. "If Ukraine requests allied forces to be on its territory, it is not up to Russia to accept or reject them," French President Emmanuel Macron has said.

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