Russia ready to end Ukraine conflict: Putin

21-May-2025

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After a two-hour-long call with US President Donald Trump on May 19, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said that Moscow is ready to work with Ukraine to end the three-year-long conflict.

"We have agreed with the President of the United States that Russia will propose and is ready to work with the Ukrainian side on a memorandum on a possible future peace accord, defining a number of positions, such as, for example, the principles of settlement, the timing of a possible peace agreement," Putin told reporters, according to news agency Reuters.

Putin said that any progress toward peace would require setting terms for a ceasefire, including its duration. Ukraine, along with its European partners and the US, have all urged Russia to accept an immediate, unconditional 30-day ceasefire.