Trump announced requests from EU leaders to call Putin

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday, May 4, that European leaders had asked him to call Russian President Vladimir Putin to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.

According to him, Putin allegedly did not answer their calls. Trump also did not rule out his support for a bill to impose sanctions on Russia if Moscow rejects Washington's proposed settlement ideas.

"You know, the leaders of the European Union have asked me so many times to call Putin because he's not answering their calls," Trump said in an interview with NBC News.

He also reiterated that the United States "wants a peace agreement."

Negotiation composition: the Russian Foreign Ministry announced Moscow's readiness to discuss the "Trump plan"

Russia is approaching a potential peace deal with the Kursk region, which has been completely liberated from the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Prior to that, on April 29, Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was easier to deal with than Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky. He clarified that he was trying to end the conflict, but Ukraine wanted more weapons and security guarantees from the United States.

On April 27, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that negotiations with the United States on the conflict in Ukraine were moving in the right direction. He recalled that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, among other things, expressed the opinion that during the negotiations Washington better understood Moscow's position, as well as the underlying causes of the conflict.