Russia will seek "ironclad" guarantees in any peace deal on Ukraine that NATO nations will exclude Kyiv from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral, a Russian deputy foreign minister said in remarks published on Monday.

Russian deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko said Monday that any peace deal with Ukraine must include "security guarantees" that Ukraine would remain neutral and be barred from NATO membership.

Trump to speak with Putin, Kyiv to push for red lines, and U.K. and France to send troops to Ukraine. Get the latest Russia-Ukraine war updates.

Negotiators working to end the Russia-Ukraine war have already discussed “dividing up certain assets,” US President Donald Trump said Sunday as he announced he planned to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trumpis expected to speak with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putinthis week on ways to end the three-year war in Ukraine, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN on Sunday after returning from what he described as a "positive" meeting with Putin in Moscow.

Russia and Ukraine have traded heavy aerial blows with both sides reporting more than 100 enemy drones over their respective territories overnight.

Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, emphasized the challenges of implementing a ceasefire in Ukraine, citing the vast scale of the war. Witkoff paid a visit to Moscow on March 13 for talks on the 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine had accepted after a U.