Trump says he will talk about a potential ceasefire Russia-Ukraine on Monday with Zelenskyy and Putin

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was separated with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday when he increases the efforts to help the two nations achieve an armistice.

“I will talk to President Vladimir Putin from Russia by phone on Monday at 10:00 a.m.,” Trump wrote on Saturday in an all-caps contribution about Truth Social and added: “I will then speak to President Zelenskyy from Ukraine.”

Trump said that he would talk to Putin about “stopping the bloodbath, who on average kills more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, and trade.”

“Hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war, a war that should never have happened will end,” he added.

Trump asked Zelenskyy and Putin for months to achieve a ceasefire to end the three -year war. The end of the war was an important election promise for Trump during the election cycle of the President 2024.

Officials from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul on Friday to have their first direct discussions since the beginning of the war. The two sides achieved an agreement on a captured exchange, but did not seem much closer to the fixed conditions for a permanent ceasefire.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about peace talks on Saturday, said Tammy Bruce, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.

Putin did not take part in the talks of Istanbul. Trump said reporters on Friday that he and the Russian president “have to meet”.

“He and I will meet. I think we will solve it or maybe not,” added Trump.

The President has had rhetoric against Putin for weeks and has stupid him for striking Ukraine strikes when US officials tried to initiate talks between both sides.

“Vladimir, stop!” Trump wrote in an April post after Russia bombed Ukraine in attacks in which at least 12 people were killed.

Trump met Zelenskyy for a private conversation on the sidelines of the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome in April. After this meeting, the US President Putin's commitment to the end of the war in Ukraine questioned and wrote in another social contribution to the truth that the youngest Russian strokes, “[make] I think he might not want to stop the war, he just types me. “

At the beginning of his government, Trump and Top US officials such as Vice President JD Vance aimed with a meeting of the White House of the White House between the three men between the three men who turn into a shouting match.

Last month, Ukraine and the United States completed a deal about an “economic partnership” between the two nations in which Ukraine minerals were involved in Ukraine.

NBC News turned to the Russian and Ukrainian messages to get a comment.