Trump’s ceasefire call with Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Tuesday to halt strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure after a lengthy conversation with President Donald Trump, a first step toward easing Russia’s war on Ukraine, but he appeared resistant to the fuller ceasefire championed by the U.S. leader and endorsed by Kyiv.

The limited agreement showed the difficulty Trump may have in bringing to a close the war in Ukraine despite a campaign promise to do so in “24 hours.” Still, the Kremlin embraced the broader conversation with Trump as a signal that it was being welcomed back into the club of global superpowers despite its years-long campaign to capture neighbors’ territory, undermine democratic elections and make common cause with U.S. foes in Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang.

A top Russian official, Kirill Dmitriev, deemed it “a PERFECT call,” capturing the Kremlin’s glee at the sharp turnabout in White House attitudes toward Russia after Trump’s reorientation of generations of U.S. policy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that he would agree to the limited 30-day halt on strikes on energy targets provided that the United States ensure that the Russians were doing the same. He noted that he had not yet been briefed by Washington on the outcome of the talks, itself an extraordinary situation given Ukraine’s stake in their outcome.

The energy infrastructure ceasefire was more limited than the broader halt to hostilities that Trump had sought and that the Ukrainians endorsed last week, an apparent concession to Putin. Russia and Ukraine began secret talks last year on a mutual halt on strikes on energy infrastructure, but the conversations ended after Kyiv seized Russian territory in a surprise incursion in August. Trump and Putin also agreed Tuesday to start negotiating a maritime ceasefire that they said could lead to a full ceasefire and a permanent peace.

In one sign of the questions about the deal, the White House said that the two sides had agreed to a halt to strikes on “energy and infrastructure,” while the Kremlin said it was “energy infrastructure” — a difference that would allow it to continue pounding Ukrainian bridges, railways, ports and other targets.

Caption from article by Michael Birnbaum, Mary Ilyushina and Cat Zakrzewski.

[Tanktaco]

He broke it immediately, this news is already old not even 10mins later.

[kingace]

A temporary, very limited ceasefire that Russia immediately violated.
That tie will never not be funny tho

[madaug]

Putin kept trump waiting an hour before talking to him. Then Putin laughed about it to his cronies.

[mertisogluisoglu]

Münich aggreement called they want the sudetenland back

[matthewserrao]

Friendly reminder that Trump is currently the same age as Biden was during the start of his administration.

[airyevermore]

Czechoslovakia called. They said someone tried something similar a while ago and it didn’t work.

[owtkast]

"Have you said thanks even once?" YES. HE'S THANKED EVERYBODY WHO HAS HELPED

[olliec]

remember when zelenskyy said to trump's face "putin has not honoured past ceasefire agreements and won't honour future ones"
and instead of listening trump told him he wasn't grovelling enough

[katelyn]

“Everyone in school knows.” Amazing. 😂

[MasterofBlades]

he broke it within three hours of agreeing and an hour of Trump tweeting it. by attacking Energy Infrastructure

[jayemar]

I already had no respect for Donald Trump but the little respect I had for VP JD Vance went away with that video of them with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. This was a president of a country in war, seeking help from an ally country, and Vance and Trump just kept interrupting him and bullying him while being overall so rude.

[windfromfelixia]

*Looks at the Münich Agreement*
"Woah, dejavu"

[Fishpasta]

Trump: "I have agreed a ceasefire on energy and infrastructure with Putin, I am the great negotiator, some would even say the best."
Putin not 24 hours later: [Attacks Ukrainian infrastructure.]
Trump: "What the hell man?"
Putin: "Oh you meant a ceasefire for us? Yeah that's not going to happen."

[Iban-Underground]

Oh look, Zelensky was right, Putin doesn't follow ceasefire deals and negotiating with him is beyond useless.

Anyways, hope he said thanks or something!

[tobiwan]

Eventually Trump will be in the dictionary as a synonym for:
- stupidity
- narcissism
- pushover
- all of the above

[ZeroTooL]

Why is JD Vance calling Russian JD Vance? These storylines are hard to follow!

[brennenfoerst]

Vance: “You didn’t even say thank you!”

Zelensky: **Literally starts the “conversation” by saying thank you**

[jxckel]

The comically large tie on the table is what really ties this together.

[seventyeight]

“Have you ever said thank you once?”
-JD Vance

[outsider]

Imagine the Kafkaesque horror of living in an active war zone; and knowing your life, future, and nation are in the hands of Donald Trump.