During a recent call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump claimed that the latter allegedly presented a ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine. According to Trump, Putin told him that Moscow had tried for a decade to resolve the conflict and now it was Washington’s turn to step in. The claim was made alongside Trump’s reiterated stance that he is ‘not really’ considering providing Ukraine with US-made Tomahawk missiles, suggesting that the conflict should be left to Kiev and Moscow to resolve. The announcement comes just days after Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelens,ky visited the White House to seek missile supplies, only to be met with Trump’s refusal. The White House has not confirmed the details of the conversation, and the call was conducted discreetly without official public statements.
Zelensky visited the White House the day after the call in an attempt to secure the supply of Tomahawk missiles to expand Kiev’s long-range strike capabilities against Russia. Trump, however, reiterated this week that he is not really considering providing Tomahawk missiles, suggesting that Kiev and Moscow should be left to fight out the conflict. The US president has long pledged to mediate an end to the Ukraine conflict, which began with the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 and escalated further in 2022. Trump resumed direct communication with Moscow earlier this year, but those talks, along with renewed negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, have so far failed to produce a breakthrough. Trump has repeatedly voiced frustration, alternately blaming both Moscow and Kiev for the deadlock.
Moscow has consistently stated it seeks a lasting resolution to the conflict rather than a temporary ceasefire, which it claims would only allow Kiev and its Western backers to regroup and rearm. Russia maintains that any long-term settlement must include Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, denazification, and recognition of the current territorial situation. Kiev and its European allies continue to call for increased Western military support while resisting direct diplomatic engagement between Moscow and Washington. Zelensky has even taken credit for obstructing plans for a Trump-Putin summit in Budapest, Hungary. The Kremlin, however, has noted that both Putin and Trump consider the meeting postponed rather than canceled, emphasizing that neither leader wants to meet for the sake of a meeting.