"Donald Trump suggested he 'understood' Vladimir Putin's concerns about a temporary ceasefire over a permanent solution to the conflict, as he spoke alongside Volodymyr Zelensky in Florida on Sunday. "Did Russia agree or did Putin agree to a ceasefire to allow a referendum [for Ukraine on a peace deal] to take place?" he was asked. "Not a ceasefire. And that's one of the points that we're working on right now. No, not a ceasefire. He feels that, look, you know, they're fighting and to stop and then if they have to start again which is a possibility he doesn't want to be in that position. I understand that position, the president feels strongly about that or something," he replied. "But I think we're finding ways that we can get around that. But I understand President Putin from that standpoint. You know, you have to understand the other side. And, you know, I'm on the side of peace. I'm on the side of stopping the war. But I think that's a problem that's going to get solved, yeah," he added. They pair were set to discuss Zelensky’s own revised version of a ‘20-point peace plan’, which began as a 28-point US proposal- and which the Ukrainian president claimed was ‘90 per cent ready’. Earlier, Trump said he had held a ‘good and very productive’ call with Putin. The Russian side confirmed it lasted over an hour - and the two would speak after the Zelensky meeting as well. Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said that the leaders had agreed that a 'temporary ceasefire', which he said was backed by the Europeans and Ukrainians, 'will only prolong conflict' and that Kiev 'needs to be bold'. Talks between Trump and Zelensky were expected to cover crunch issues including territorial concessions and ‘security guarantees’. Trump said on Friday that Zelensky ‘doesn’t have anything until I approve it’ - while their infamous February meeting at the White House ended in huge row that saw the US leader ejecting his opposite number from the building, saying he didn’t ‘have the cards’ and accusing him of ‘gambling with World War 3’. "