Trump wants to talk to Putin and Zelenskyy

Trump announced this on his social network Truth Social.

According to Trump, he is going to talk to Putin about "the bloodshed, which is killing an average of over 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers per week, and trade."

After a personal conversation with Zelensky, Trump is going to hold a collective call with the president of Ukraine and representatives of NATO countries.

I hope it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will be reached, and this very brutal war, a war that should never have happened, will end.

Donald Trump

President of the United States

The exact number of Ukrainian military deaths is unknown. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported in an interview with CBS in April that about 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the start of the full-scale invasion.