Zelenskyj: Will talk to Trump today – does not trust Russia's promise
Volodymyr Zelenskyj will talk to Donald Trump later today, Reuters reports. It is the first time the two presidents have spoken since the high-profile brawl in the White House. The conversation began at 15:00 Swedish time, according to both the White House and Kyiv.
On a visit to Finland, Zelenskyj thanks Trump for their envoys' meeting in Saudi Arabia and says he hopes a peace agreement can be implemented soon.
Yesterday, Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin about a possible ceasefire in Ukraine. Russia agreed to a limited one for 30 days where attacks on "energy and infrastructure" will be suspended. But hours later, the power grid was knocked out in the Ukrainian city of Slovyansk.
– This shows that Russia's words and actions do not match, Zelenskyy said at a press conference with Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
He also wants a limited ceasefire on energy and infrastructure to be monitored by the United States, writes AFP.
Analysis: Is Putin completely serious with his limitless demands?
Being a peace broker is demonstrably not as easy as Donald Trump had hoped, writes CNN's Stephen Collinson in an analysis. While Trump took the smallest possible step forward with his peace plan for Ukraine on Tuesday, another ceasefire that the president has taken credit for, the one in Gaza, was shattered.
Increasingly, it appears that Trump sees the Ukraine war as a sideshow to a broader effort to get closer to Russia, writes Collinson.
Putin's demands for a ceasefire in Ukraine are so bold that it is hard to believe that he is completely serious, writes The Guardian's Dan Sabbagh. The Kremlin’s “key demand” is that all foreign military aid and intelligence information to Ukraine cease. It is nowhere near something that Ukraine can accept, writes Sabbagh.
“The extraordinary demands [...] would make a mockery of any peace agreement,” he writes.
Trump and Putin probably discussed more things during their phone call on Tuesday than was conveyed to the outside world, writes SVT’s foreign correspondent Carl Fridh Kleberg. The minutes of the call do not mention President Zelensky or Ukraine’s occupied territories.
“Which does not mean that it was not discussed – you can fit a lot into a two-hour call.”
Trump: It is not true that Putin demanded a halt to aid
The Kremlin’s report after Tuesday’s phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin states that Putin “demanded an immediate halt to aid to Ukraine in order to be able to move forward with this deal.” But that's not true, Donald Trump told Fox News.
– No, he didn't. We didn't actually talk about aid, we talked about a lot of things, but aid was never discussed, Trump told Fox, according to Newsweek.
In the conversation, the presidents agreed on a 30-day ceasefire for attacks on "energy and infrastructure," Washington said after the meeting. But even on that point, they didn't fully agree with the Kremlin, which instead announced that the pause only applies to "energy infrastructure." That would suggest narrower targets, The New York Times notes.
Volodymyr Zelenskyj will talk to Donald Trump later today, Reuters reports. It is the first time the two presidents have spoken since the high-profile brawl in the White House. The conversation began at 15:00 Swedish time, according to both the White House and Kyiv.
On a visit to Finland, Zelenskyj thanks Trump for their envoys' meeting in Saudi Arabia and says he hopes a peace agreement can be implemented soon.
Yesterday, Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin about a possible ceasefire in Ukraine. Russia agreed to a limited one for 30 days where attacks on "energy and infrastructure" will be suspended. But hours later, the power grid was knocked out in the Ukrainian city of Slovyansk.
– This shows that Russia's words and actions do not match, Zelenskyy said at a press conference with Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
He also wants a limited ceasefire on energy and infrastructure to be monitored by the United States, writes AFP.
Analysis: Is Putin completely serious with his limitless demands?
Being a peace broker is demonstrably not as easy as Donald Trump had hoped, writes CNN's Stephen Collinson in an analysis. While Trump took the smallest possible step forward with his peace plan for Ukraine on Tuesday, another ceasefire that the president has taken credit for, the one in Gaza, was shattered.
Increasingly, it appears that Trump sees the Ukraine war as a sideshow to a broader effort to get closer to Russia, writes Collinson.
Putin's demands for a ceasefire in Ukraine are so bold that it is hard to believe that he is completely serious, writes The Guardian's Dan Sabbagh. The Kremlin’s “key demand” is that all foreign military aid and intelligence information to Ukraine cease. It is nowhere near something that Ukraine can accept, writes Sabbagh.
“The extraordinary demands [...] would make a mockery of any peace agreement,” he writes.
Trump and Putin probably discussed more things during their phone call on Tuesday than was conveyed to the outside world, writes SVT’s foreign correspondent Carl Fridh Kleberg. The minutes of the call do not mention President Zelensky or Ukraine’s occupied territories.
“Which does not mean that it was not discussed – you can fit a lot into a two-hour call.”
Trump: It is not true that Putin demanded a halt to aid
The Kremlin’s report after Tuesday’s phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin states that Putin “demanded an immediate halt to aid to Ukraine in order to be able to move forward with this deal.” But that's not true, Donald Trump told Fox News.
– No, he didn't. We didn't actually talk about aid, we talked about a lot of things, but aid was never discussed, Trump told Fox, according to Newsweek.
In the conversation, the presidents agreed on a 30-day ceasefire for attacks on "energy and infrastructure," Washington said after the meeting. But even on that point, they didn't fully agree with the Kremlin, which instead announced that the pause only applies to "energy infrastructure." That would suggest narrower targets, The New York Times notes.
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