Say Trump and Putin

President Trump said on Saturday that on Monday, days after the first direct peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, he would speak to President Vladimir V. Putin from Russia for years, a temporary ceasefire.

Mr. Trump said on Saturday that he would also call President Volodymyr Zelensky from Ukraine, who approved unconditional and immediate ceasefire and the leaders of NATO alliance.

“Hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war-in war that would never have been able to happen-” wrote on social media.

The Kremlin confirmed on Saturday evening that Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin would speak in a second publicly recognized call in Mr. Trump's second term in the discussion of Ukraine. Her first call in February was celebrated by many in Moscow, especially after Mr. Trump called himself in front of Mr. Zelensky.

It is not the first time that Mr. Trump, who said in the campaign lane that he “settled the war before I even became president”, optimistic that he could end it quickly. The phone calls are to take place because the Kremlin intensifies the attacks on the front and bombed bombing of the Ukrainian cities.

On Saturday morning, a Russian drone attack killed at least nine people after having met a shuttle bus with civilians in the Sumy region in the northeast of Ukraine, according to the residents and the Ukrainian authorities. According to the Ukrainian authorities, attacks in other parts of the country killed at least five other civilians.