While Russian and American officials prepared to talk about the 30-day ceasefire proposal, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zenskyy accused the Russian president Vladimir Putin To extend the war.
“Putin is afraid of directly telling President Trump that he wants to continue this war and continue to kill Ukrainians,” Zenskyy wrote In a post on X. “That is why she ceases it in Moscow -the -fires -Idee with such conditions surrounding that it fails or is towed away for as long as possible.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy (Sputnik / Alexei Danichv / Pool via Reuters / Leah Millis / Alina Smutko)
Trump ‘Hoop’ Putin agrees to stop because Moscow does not yet indicate a truce
After Ukraine had agreed earlier this week to the American cease -the proposal, State Secretary Marco Rubio put the responsibility on Russia and reporters told that the “ball is now in (Russia) court”.
“As we have always said, Russia, the only one who is not instructive, is the only one who is not constructive.
Now Zenskyy says that stricter sanctions are needed to push Putin to close a deal and end the bloody three -year war. While president Donald Trump Reporters told that he wanted peace, not sanctions, he acknowledged that the US could make financial movements that are ‘very bad for Russia’.
“In a financial sense, yes, we could do things, very bad for Russia. It would be devastating for Russia,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, meeting NATO -Secretary -General Mark Rutte. “But I don’t want to do that because I want to see peace.”
US President Donald Trump responds as he met NATO -Secretary General Mark Rutte, with the American Vice President JD Vance, the American Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth and the American national security adviser Mike Waltz who is sitting next to him, in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC, DC. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
Putin thanks Trump for principles of cease -fens, but does not say yes
On Thursday, Putin said he agreed with the American plan for a strike-it-fire of 30 days in “principle”, but indicated that Russia would not sign with the agreement in his current form. Ukraine agreed to the plan after conversations with American officials in Saudi Arabia, as long as Russia is committed to the plan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Rostelecom, the largest telecommunications supplier of Russia, president of the Kremlin in Moscow on June 7, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty images)
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Trump said on Thursday that if Russia does not come to the table and agrees to ceases -the fire, “it will be a very disappointing moment for the world.” During his campaign, the president promised to end the war in Russia-Ukraine and said that if he had remained in office in 2020, the war, which started with the Russian invasion of 2021 in Ukraine, would not have begun.
