(NewsNation) — As the war betwixt Ukraine and Russia ramps up, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming deadline from President Donald Trump connected bid talks to extremity the fighting.
Putin has said helium and Trump person reached an knowing connected ending the war, but helium has not said whether helium agreed to bid talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Trump antecedently floated a Monday deadline for Putin to respond to ceasefire negotiations.
Putin was successful attendance Monday astatine a security league meeting with respective satellite leaders aimed astatine countering Western influence. At the conference, helium expressed openness to a imaginable deal.
"We worth the efforts and propositions to lick the Ukrainian situation that China, India and different strategical partners person offered," Putin said. "An knowing that was reached astatine a U.S.-Russia summit heads the aforesaid direction, I hope. I pave the mode to bid successful Ukraine, I hope."
Trump has threatened to contented much economical tariffs if Russia does not hold to a ceasefire. In a societal media post, helium pointed to the information that India buys astir of its lipid and subject products from Russia and "very small from the U.S."
"They person present offered to chopped their Tariffs to nothing, but it's getting late," Trump wrote. "They should person done truthful years ago."
Trump antecedently vowed to increase tariffs connected India arsenic a secondary measurement if a ceasefire is not reached. White House officials said they stay assured that bid successful Ukraine is simply a possibility.