On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly said he would bring an end to the war within a day of taking office. Putin said Russia's goal is to remove what he called the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine and create conditions for lasting peace, according to the RBC news agency.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he plans to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO leaders in separate phone calls on Monday to try to arrange a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump announced he will speak with foreign leaders on the war in Ukraine next week after representatives from Ukraine and Russia went to Turkey for discussions on Friday.The conversation follows the president's first foreign trip of his second administration,

Ukraine rallied support from its Western allies on Friday after Kyiv and Moscow failed to agree to a ceasefire at their first direct talks in more than three years, with Russia presenting conditions that a Ukrainian source described as "non-starters".

It was the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks since the early weeks of Moscow's 2022 invasion. While both sides agreed to a prisoner swap, they remain far apart on ending the fighting.

Russia and Ukraine agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war from each side, Defence Minister Rustem Umerov told Ukrainian TV on Friday as talks in Istanbul ended. If the exchange goes ahead, it would be the biggest prisoner swap in more than three years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.