President Donald Trump is “hopeful” Russia and Ukraine could make a deal this week after a short lived Easter ceasefire between the 2 international locations ended.
“Hopefully Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Fact Social.
“Each will then begin to do large enterprise with the US of America, which is prospering, and make a fortune!”
The struggle between the 2 international locations has raged for greater than three years and has value the lives of tens of hundreds of individuals on either side.
PUTIN ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY EASTER CEASEFIRE IN UKRAINE WAR
President Trump says the U.S. ought to management Ukraine’s nuclear energy vegetation in a safety transfer as ceasefire negotiations start. (Getty Photographs used to create Fox Information Picture)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of breaking their ceasefire settlement and stated “the Russian military has violated Putin’s ceasefire greater than two thousand instances.”
“The whole variety of violations by the Russian military of Russia’s personal ceasefire promise all through the day reached 2,935. The very best variety of shellings and assaults occurred within the Pokrovsk,” Zelenskyy wrote.
“The Russian promise of full silence didn’t unfold within the Kursk course both. In complete, there have been 96 Russian assaults on the entrance, 1,882 shelling of our positions, and particularly 812 with heavy weapons, Russian FPV drones have been used greater than 950 instances.” — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy added that Ukraine will stay a mirror-image and “will reply to silence with silence our strikes in protection of Russian strikes.”
“Actions are at all times extra eloquent than phrases,” Zelenskyy stated.
PUTIN CONSCRIPTS 160K MEN AS RUSSIA EYES UKRAINE OFFENSIVE
Native residents stroll among the many particles close to a broken home, a day after a Russian strike on a suburb of Odesa, southern Ukraine, on March 7, 2025. (OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Putin ordered his forces to cease all army exercise alongside the entrance line within the non permanent Easter ceasefire till midnight, Moscow time, on Sunday.
Zelenskyy beforehand stated that if the Easter ceasefire really held up, he would suggest extending it longer.
“That’s what will reveal Russia’s true intentions – as a result of 30 hours is sufficient to make headlines, however not for real confidence-building measures,” he stated. “Thirty days might give peace an opportunity.”
Zelenskyy added that “there isn’t a belief in phrases coming from Moscow” after one in every of his army leaders reported that Russia had appeared to interrupt their truce.
“We all know all too nicely how Moscow manipulates, and we’re ready for something. Ukraine’s Protection Forces will act rationally – responding in type. Each Russian strike will probably be met with an applicable response,” Zelenskyy stated.
ZELENSKYY SENSATIONALLY PREDICTS PUTIN ‘WILL DIE SOON’
President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Getty Photographs)
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., echoed Zelenskyy and stated on “Face the Nation” on CBS that the probability of Russia upholding the deal is “solely as much as Vladimir Putin.”
“The person has by no means stored his phrase, ever, in any context, so far as I am conscious,” Fitzpatrick stated. “So now we have to know what we’re coping with. Our authorities, I hope, is aware of who they’re coping with Vladimir Putin. He is not a person of his phrase. He is not serious about peace. I hope he will get there.”
Fitzpatrick added that he felt like Secretary of State Marco Rubio is “doing an ideal job and understands Putin.”
“He understands the dynamic of the Russia-Ukraine battle and the historical past there. And I’ve full religion in his means to barter a simply and truthful settlement,” Fitzpatrick defined. “But it surely’s vital to recollect, and this is applicable to all agreements the place we facilitate as a nation, that it is in the end as much as the nations to simply accept and abide by these situations.”
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“President Zelensky, the Ukrainian individuals desperately need peace. They’ve at all times needed peace. They have been a peaceable nation earlier than Russia wrongfully invaded them, and so they wish to get it again. However it’s got to be a simply and lasting peace,” he stated.
The non permanent ceasefire got here after Trump on Thursday stated an 80-page minerals deal will probably be signed with Ukraine in a single week. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later stated it will possible be signed on April 26.
Particulars on the settlement stay comparatively unknown, although latest reporting by Bloomberg has prompt the U.S. has eased again its calls for for compensation for its support in Ukraine’s combat towards Russia from $300 billion to $100 billion.
Fox Information Digital’s Michael Dorgan and the Related Press contributed to this report.
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