President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as he stepped up efforts to help the ceasefire between the two countries.

"I will address Russian President Vladimir Putin at 10:00 a.m. Monday, adding: "I will then talk to President Zelenskyy of Ukraine." ”

Trump said he would talk to Putin about "stop 'bloody', killing more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week and conducting trade."

He added: "Hopefully this will be a productive day, there will be a ceasefire, this very violent war, a war that will never happen will end."

Trump urged Zelenskyy and Putin to a ceasefire deal in months to end the three-year war. In the 2024 presidential election cycle, ending the war is an important campaign promise for Trump.

Officials from Russia and Ukraine held their first direct negotiations in Istanbul on Friday since the war began. The two sides seem to have not come closer to reaching a consensus on the conditions for a permanent ceasefire.

Putin did not attend Istanbul's speech. Trump told reporters on Friday that he and the Russian president "must have a meeting."

"He and I will meet. I think we'll fix it, or maybe not," Trump added.

The president has escalated his remarks against Putin as U.S. officials attempted to initiate negotiations between the two sides, blowing up Ukraine.

"Vladimir, stop!" Trump wrote in an April article that Russia attacked at least 12 people in Ukraine.

Trump met with Zelenskyy for a private conversation at the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome in April. After this meeting, the U.S. president questioned Putin’s commitment to ending the Ukrainian war, writing in another truth society post that the recent Russian strike was: “(Let me think maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just laughing at me,” he said.

Earlier in his administration, Trump and senior U.S. officials, such as Vice President JD Vance, were angry at Zelenskyy's ongoing war and held a yelling match between three men at the White House in late February.

Last month, Ukraine and the United States reached an agreement on an "economic partnership" between two countries involving Ukrainian rare earth minerals.