By Tom Balmforth, Yuliia Dysa and Steve Holland KYIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump offered on Monday to join prospective Ukraine-Russia talks in Turkey later this week as European countries pushed to get the Kremlin to accept their demand for a 30-day ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.

Donald Trump said he could join Russia and Ukraine for talks on ending the war in Turkey on Thursday. The US president said on Monday that he was “thinking” of flying to Istanbul for negotiations after visits to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

US President Donald Trump raised the possibility of flying to Turkey on Thursday to join potential conversations over the war in Ukraine between Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.