Donald Trump ahead of presidential election victory last fall Famously boasting that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in a “day.”

During Trump’s second first tone as Trump, a ceasefire deal was reached, and both sides respect both sides (not to mention a peace deal) was much harder than the White House leaders expected.

Trump has reviewed his initial comments about a quick end to the three-year conflict.

“Well, I’m talking about it, I’m talking about exaggeration because I’m making a point of view,” Trump told Time last week. “Obviously, people know that when I say that, it’s said in a joke, but also that (the war) is going to end.”

Fair to the Trump administration, It doesn’t waste time talking with Russia and then talking with Ukraineto promote a ceasefire agreement that could lead to peace negotiations. So far, there hasn’t been a real improvement in this score.

Negotiations are underway between the U.S. teams in Kiev and Moscow, but Washington threatened to withdraw from the negotiations last week without signs of an imminent compromise. The belligerent parties continue to accuse each other of destroying the ceasefire agreement without respecting the U.S. broker agreement to not target their respective energy infrastructure.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Sunday, next week will be “very critical” for the White House Because it made “determining whether (the ceasefire talk) is an effort we want to continue to participate in.”

Rubio added: “There are some reasons for optimism, but there are reasons for reality, we are close, but we are not close enough.”

Russia and Ukraine continued to trade drone and missile attacks, while the hope of regaining its pre-war territorial sovereignty was sensational when the United States and Russia seemed to have to accept the Russian side of Russia, which could accept losses from occupied territories, such as part of peace.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin insists it is a peace agreement, a peace agreement, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that despite the continued Ukrainian war published by Russia, the U.S. efforts are to “make the process along the path of peace.”

“The President (Vladimir Putin) repeatedly confirmed that the Russian side was ready, and that the Russian side’s preparations began the negotiation process with Ukraine without any preliminary conditions in order to work hard. To continue working hard. That’s what we can say.”

Tina Fordham, founder of Fordham Global Vision, pointed out that while the coming week is framed as another “made or break” period of Russian-Ukrainian conflict diplomacy, she has not seen any optimistic reasons for a war resolution.

“It’s easy to start a war, it’s hard to stop them,” she told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Monday.

“Both sides will tell President Trump to achieve peace because that’s what Trump wants to hear. But Putin has an advantage in keeping the status quo for as long as possible,” Fordham pointed out.

“I think we’re very upset when we see President Trump,” she added. “Remember, he promised the first day of peace and he really wanted to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Vladimir Putin never rushes to achieve peace. And that situation does make Russia’s advantage work.”

But Trump also seems to suggest Zelenskyy is ready to consider ceding Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014, as part of the deal – a Ukrainian leader has previously refused to leap. When reporters asked on Sunday whether he thought the Ukrainian president was ready to give up the peninsula, Trump replied: “I think so.”

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy Tell the BBC Friday His country did not have “enough weapons to restore control of the Crimean Peninsula” and “a totally unconditional ceasefire opens up possibilities for discussion of everything.”

As far as Russia is concerned, The Kremlin said on Saturday Putin is ready to negotiate directly with Ukraine without advancement. European diplomats remain suspicious.

The head of EU foreign policy Kaja Kallas told CNBC on Monday that Russia has launched attacks on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure in recent weeks and Russia has not shown it yet. Despite multiple strikes, Russia has denied the civilian targets in the war.

“We are very clear here that Ukraine wants peace, two people need to want peace, just one person wants war, and we see that Russia doesn’t want peace.”

“Russia is someone who is bombing civilians and civilian infrastructure, and Ukraine has agreed to an unconditional ceasefire a month ago. So what we need to see is that there is greater pressure on Russia so that Russia also wants peace,” she said, adding that this Brock’s position on Crimea’s future is meaningless.

“International law is very clear: Crimea is Ukraine and I think if Crimea is gifted, the result is that it will only incite the invaders because it can change the borders by force,” she said.

“The only obstacle to peace is Russia and Putin because he doesn’t want peace. We Ukrainians, we want peace as soon as possible,” said Oleksiy Goncharenko, an independent Ukrainian MP, on Monday.

However, he agreed that there could be room for space when Russia still occupies Ukrainian land.

“Ukraine will never realize any inch of our territory, but hostilities may end with actual control over Russians in part of our territory, which will be illegally occupied. Unfortunately, this is not the first or may not be the last case in world history,” he told CNBC’s “Early European Edition” on Monday.

He said: “One day the Russian Empire will collapse as before, and we will bring them (territories) back. But for now, we cannot kick the Russians out of our territory. However, we will never realize that they are Russians again.”