PLANS to carve up Ukraine are “being negotiated as we speak”, Donald Trump insisted yesterday.

He claimed a “full ceasefire” was imminent despite Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin rejecting a 30-day pause this week.

Moscow appears to have ramped-up attacks since Putin and Trump spoke in a phone call on Tuesday.

Putin agreed to a 30-day break in his army’s strikes on energy infrastructure.

But since then, Moscow blitzed Odesa when Czech President Petr Pavel was visiting and Ukraine accused Russia of carpet bombing its city Kropyvnytskyi.

Speaking last night, the US President said: “I believe we’re pretty soon going to have a full ceasefire. Then we’re gonna have a contract.

“The contract is being negotiated in terms of dividing up the lands, etcetera. It is being negotiated as we speak.”

It came as Ukraine accused Russia of launching a “false flag” attack on a gas metering station in Russia’s contested Kursk province.

Kyiv said the station “was repeatedly shelled by the Russians themselves”.

Dramatic footage showed flames erupting on the site near Sudzha, where Ukraine’s frontline had collapsed earlier this month.

The pipeline had been used to send gas to Europe until Ukraine cut it off in December when the previous contract expired.