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Trump, Putin meet tomorrow on Ukraine
Donald Trump says he is set to speak with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to discuss a Ukraine ceasefire deal, as Moscow said it wanted any peace agreement to include a ban on Kyiv joining Nato.
Mr Trump said he and Putin will discuss “dividing up certain assets” and that “we will be talking about land [and] power plants.”
“A lot of work’s been done over the weekend. We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” the US president said while flying from Florida to Washington on Air Force One on Monday night.
The US president’s comments came as a Russian official said Moscow will seek “ironclad” guarantees in any peace deal that Nato nations will exclude Kyiv from membership, and that Ukraine will remain “neutral”.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko also repeated the Kremlin’s position that Moscow is categorically against the deployment of Nato observers to Ukraine.
Elsewhere, Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Andrii Hnatov as the new chief of the general staff of the armed forces, as the war-hit nation said it was restructuring and strengthening its military.
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