Trump and Putin discuss Russia and Ukraine ceasefire plan

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded their high-stakes phone call Tuesday on a possible 30-day ceasefire deal to pause the war in Ukrainea White House official told NBC News.

The call, which began at 10 a.m. ET, lasted at least 90 minutes, the official said.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino earlier had said the call was “going well.”

Russia was expected to lay out its conditions for a break in the fighting during the call, which could include all weapons shipments to Ukraine being halted, according to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg.

Trump has signaled that the U.S. could be willing to compromise with Russia, too.

“We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power plants,” Trump told reporters Sunday after being asked about concessions to Moscow in negotiations to end the more than three-year war in Ukraine.

“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,” he added, without giving further detail.

“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 noted.

The Trump administration wants to gain Moscow’s support for a 30-day pause in the fighting in Ukraine.

Kyiv has already accepted a ceasefire proposalwhich led Washington to restart military aid and intelligence sharing with the war-torn country after a brief collapse in ties following a heated White House clash in late February.

Russia gave a more muted response, with Putin saying last week that he agreed to the idea in principle while listing caveats and requesting further negotiation.

“The idea (of a ceasefire) itself is correct and we are certainly supporting it, but there are issues that need to be discussed,” he said Thursday, according to an NBC translation.

“I think that we need to talk to our American colleagues and partners,” Putin said. “Maybe call President Trump and discuss it together. But we support the very idea of ending this conflict through peaceful means.”

Putin also said a deal must “lead to long-term peace and eliminate the root causes of this crisis” and questioned both the enforcement of the ceasefire and whether the 30-day pause in fighting would allow Ukraine to “supply weapons” or “train newly mobilized units.”