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“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.

While the Ukrainian and Russian officials in Istanbul first agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners each since the beginning of the war, there is hardly any evidence that the frenetic vertebrae of diplomatic activities brought the two sides closer to the negotiation of a weapon fir.

On Saturday, Mr. Zelensky condemned the strike on the bus as a “conscious attack on civilians”.

“The Russians could not have understood the type of vehicle they were aiming at,” he said in an explanation. The Russian military had no direct comment.

In his explanation, Mr. Zelensky said, he believed that the only way to make the Kremlin peace if Mr. Putin was forced to do so.

“We expect strong sanctions against Russia from the United States, Europe and all of our partners,” said Zelensky.

The European Union will enforce a new series of sanctions on Tuesday, but Mr. Trump did not say whether the United States would do the same.

On Friday evening he said Fox News that he believed that he could personally convey an end to the fights by setting himself with Mr. Putin and adding that “Putin was fed up with this whole thing”.

After the US President spoke to Mr. Putin in February, he expressed similar trust in Mr. Putin's desire for peace.

At that time, the Kremlin said that Mr. Putin said Mr. Trump of “the need to eliminate the basic causes of the conflict”, and the Russian guide did not fluctuate in his maximum territorial conquest and prevents Ukraine from joining NATO.

With the global leaders and dignitaries, on Sunday for the first fair of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Highly diplomatic conversations took place on the edge in Rome.

Mr. Zelensky should take part in the ceremony, the Vatican said in a statement. This is how Vice President JD Vance, who joined the Ukrainian leader at the end of February in a catastrophic meeting in the Oval Office.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that the Vatican could be an event location for peace talks in Russia-Ukraine, after Pope Leo swore to personally “all efforts” to end the war.

Mr. Rubio also spoke to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov on Saturday. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the call was initiated by the American side. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Mr. Rubio emphasized Mr. Trump after “immediate ceasefire”.

Kyiv has been worried for a long time that Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin would come to a mutual understanding and then try to force their terms into Ukraine. Since Washington has recovered more with Moscow's position, the leading military mights in Europe have confirmed their commitment to supporting Ukraine.

Military analysts and critics of the Politics of the Trump government, including the Republicans, have stated that the oppression of Ukraine was also doomed to fail against Russia.

“I don't think there is a prospect of the end of the war this year,” said Mick Ryan, a retired Australian general and Fellow at the Lowy Institute, a research group based in Sydney. “Russia has retained and doubled its maximum minor goals in the negotiations in Turkey this week.”

The focus on territorial profits and demands on which the White House focused on misses the point, he said.

“Mr. Putin's main goal is to expand the democracy and culture of Ukraine and to refuse its agency in her own affairs,” said Ryan.

The 44 -year -old Serhii, a volunteer in Sumy, who contributed to saving people on the bus attack on Saturday, said that he feels cheated by the diplomatic efforts of the Trump government. He asked that his family name is not used out of concern for her security, and said: “Everything that Trump does – or not – leads to more destruction, the collapse of peace.”

The 60 -year -old Viktor Vovk took the bus and had just withdrawn from a control point when the drone hit.

“I didn't even notice what had happened first,” he said when he reached by phone when he recovered from his injuries. But then he turned his head and saw body apart and others caught in the wreck.

“God helps you never see anything like this,” he said.

The nine killed people were a family – a father, a mother and a daughter, said the Ukrainian authorities. At least seven people were injured.

The bus was hit by a Russian Lancet drone at 6:17 a.m. local time outside of Bilopillia, a few miles away from the Russian border that had a pre -war population of around 15,000 people.

Oleksandr Merezhko, the chairman of the foreign committee of the Ukrainian parliament, said that bloodshed on Saturday was further evidence of a failed American policy.

He pointed out that Mr. Trump had asked for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire that Mr. Zelensky accepted for 30 days, even though Kyiv insisted long that security guarantees would precede every military unit. He then asked Mr. Zelensky to start Mr. Putin's offer, to restart direct negotiations in Istanbul, undermine these talks and said that only he and Mr. Putin could solve the war together.

“Such inconsistency, illogical steps and the lack of strategy undermine us the credibility and encourage Putin to continue to insist on his maximum demands,” said Merezhko. “Putin has over -maneuvered Trump.”

Nataliia Novosolova And Anatoly Kurmanaev Reported reports.