On May 17th, U.S. President Donald Trump said that he would talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to "stop the bloodshed", meaning to make the conflict between Russia and Ukraine cease fire.
Trump said on Saturday that he would first talk with Putin about how to end the war, and then speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other leaders of NATO countries.
Now the positions of both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict are very different. The Kremlin still insists on its key conditions proposed earlier, including that Ukraine should abandon joining NATO, abandon the four regions partially occupied by Russia, and the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, and that the West should stop providing military aid to Ukraine.
However, Ukraine refuses these demands from Russia and insists that Russian troops currently occupying 20% of its territory withdraw unconditionally. Trump's call with Putin at this time has drawn attention from the outside world to see if he can play a mediating role between the two sides and push for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
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