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Putin and Trump to discuss Ukraine today

Activists carry a makeshift coffin draped with the Ukraine flag as they march in the "Ukraine will never surrender" protest near US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 14, 2025. [AFP]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump will speak by phone today, as one US official expressed hope the two could agree on a Ukraine ceasefire within weeks.

Trump said earlier that "a lot of work" had been done between the United States and Russia on settling the three-year Ukraine conflict, and that there was a "very good chance" hostilities would end.

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