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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin plan to call Russia-Ukraine war in the coming week, said the US official how Washington seeks to conclude a ceasefire agreement.

On Sunday, Trump’s messenger Steve Vitkoff said CNN that he had a “positive” meeting with Putin and that Russian and Ukrainian parties are much closer today in the negotiations.

“I suppose that this week will be a call from both presidents, and we also continue to deal with the Ukrainians,” he said.

Comments are coming after the US and its G7 partners on Friday prevent Moscow that they could extend sanctions and use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine because Trump seeks to defeat Putin in his ceasefire. A joint statement followed by the week at which Kyiv signed up for 30-day truce But Moscow signaled the reluctance to do it right away.

Witcoof said CNN that he witnessed an improvement in the ceasefire negotiations. Previously, the parties were “miles apart,” he said.

Following the negotiations in Saudi Arabia, led by US National Security Advisor, Mike Wols and US Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, as well as the “equally positive” meeting with Putin: “We narrowed the differences between them, and now we are sitting,” he added.

The White House and the Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to comment requests.

The messenger said the CBS that the negotiations were difficult, which involved numerous angles and large territories, including the “main confrontation area” in the Kursk region, a nuclear reactor that supplies electricity to Ukraine and access to ports.

“There are so many elements here in the ceasefire,” Vitkoff said, adding that “it is to make people not fight each other on the border of 2000 kilometers.”

He also seemed to dismiss the statement of French President Emmanuel Macron, who claimed that Russia “seems to be not genuinely looking for peace.”

Witkoff refused to comment on Macron’s remarks, but added: “I think it is a pity when people make such estimates and they do not have, first -hand.. I saw constructive effort over a long period of time to discuss the specifics of what is happening in the field.”

Asked if he thinks there will be a deal, Vitcoof brought Trump, who said it would take weeks.

“I disagree with him,” said the CNN messenger.