Here's what White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says about prospects for an end to the war in Ukraine.

We have never been closer to peace than we are today.

That may be true, but the current situation is still a very long way from a lasting peace.

This week, the presidents of Ukraine and Russia agreed in separate phone calls with President Trump to a limited 30-day ceasefire.

The exact details are in dispute, but it would at least cover attacks on energy infrastructure, like power plants.

Both sides are already accusing one another of violating the agreement.

Meetings are scheduled for Monday in Saudi Arabia to work out the details.

Here's State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce on Wednesday.

Everyone now is at a table to get to the same goal.

That's a metaphorical table in this case, because Ukrainian and Russian officials will be in separate rooms with the U.S. acting as a go-between. All this for a

partial one-month ceasefire. One of the biggest things working against an agreement to end the war

is what happened after Ukraine's last agreement with Russia's president Vladimir Putin,

and the ones before that. There is a long history of broken promises.

In 2019, I signed with him the deal.

Volodemir Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, brought up that history in the Oval Office last month.

It's what prompted the pushback from Vice President J.D. Vance and the argument that ultimately ended the meeting.

He broken this ceasefire. He killed our people and he didn't exchange prisoners. We signed

the exchange of prisons. But he didn't do it. What kind of diplomacy, J.D., you are speaking about?

What do you mean?

Consider this.

Ukraine says it won't trust a promise from Russia.

It needs security guarantees.

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