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A Ukrainian serviceman kneels beside portraits of Ukrainian flags at a makeshift memorial for the fallen Ukrainian and foreign fighters, at the Independence Square in Kyiv, on Sunday, amid the Russian invasion on Ukraine. | AFP photo

US president Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to speak this week, officials said on Sunday, as Washington and Kyiv鈥檚 European allies press Moscow to accept a ceasefire in the three-year war.

The United States this week proposed a halt in fighting in the war after talks in Saudi Arabia, with Kyiv accepting the proposal.