{"id":421769,"date":"2025-03-19T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/19\/putin-trump-colloqui-tregua-ucraina\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T13:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:26:05","slug":"putin-doesnt-seem-truly-interested-in-a-truce-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/19\/putin-doesnt-seem-truly-interested-in-a-truce-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin doesn’t seem truly interested in a truce in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Few expected Vladimir Putin<\/strong> to agree to stop\u00a0hostilities in Ukraine quickly. Despite ongoing talks with the United States, there is little willingness by\u00a0the Russian side to reach a real truce any time soon, nor to respect the (partial)( one agreed on with Donald Trump last night — as can be seen\u00a0by the attacks\u00a0Moscow swiftly ordered on the former Soviet republic, as well as the conditions put forward by the occupant of the Kremlin to accept a halt\u00a0to the fighting, unacceptable for\u00a0Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Following a script\u00a0that has become familiar to the world, Vladimir Putin <\/strong>again kicks the ball into the stands\u00a0without admitting it publicly. He had done so before meeting with the White House envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff<\/strong> (who, despite his title, is also leading the negotiations on the war in Ukraine),\u00a0stalling<\/a>\u00a0by placing a series of onerous conditions<\/strong> on the form a ceasefire should take to be acceptable to Moscow.<\/p>\n

He did it again last night when he spoke on the phone<\/a>\u00a0with Donald Trump<\/strong> for the second time in two months. Officially, as stated in the Kremlin<\/a> statement after the talks, the Russian leader reportedly agreed with his US counterpart to\u00a0a 30-day truce in bombings against energy and civilian infrastructure<\/strong> between the two belligerent countries.<\/p>\n

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US president Donald Trump (photo: Jim Watson\/Afp)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Putin says he is ready to “work with his American partners on a thorough examination of possible solutions<\/strong>, which should be comprehensive, sustainable, and long-term.” And, of course, taking into account the “unconditional need to eliminate the root causes of the crisis<\/strong> and Russia’s legitimate security interests<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

However, the Russian note mentions, among other things, a condition deemed “fundamental” by the Federation “to prevent the escalation of the conflict and work toward its resolution” diplomatically: “The complete cessation of foreign military assistance<\/strong> and the provision of intelligence information<\/strong>” to Kyiv:\u00a0a\u00a0point\u00a0that, according to statements made by<\/a>\u00a0Trump was\u00a0not addressed during the call.<\/p>\n

More importantly, this is an unacceptable condition for both Ukraine and its European allies<\/strong>, who just these days renewed<\/a> (at least some) a commitment to support the former Soviet republic with new shipments of funds, weapons,\u00a0and ammunition<\/strong>. Putin also reportedly pointed out “the need to stop the forced mobilization in Ukraine and the rearmament<\/strong> of the Ukrainian armed forces.” The\u00a0request came as\u00a0Russian troops were\u00a0advancing<\/strong> at various points on the frontline, from the Donbas to the oblast’<\/em> of Kursk, and one that seems designed on purpose to be rejected by Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Further testifying to the lack of credibility of Moscow’s commitments, shortly after the end of the phone call between the two presidents,\u00a0drone strikes on Ukraine<\/strong> resumed, even though\u00a0(according to the Kremlin communiqu\u00e9) Putin had given orders to\u00a0stop bombing<\/strong> against infrastructure\u00a0immediately.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Finnish President Alexander Stubb (right) welcomes Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Helsinki, March 19, 2025 (photo: Heikki Saukkomaa\/Afp)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Volodymyr Zelensky<\/strong>, visiting Helsinki, denounced the night attack carried out by 150 drones as proof that Putin does not truly\u00a0want a truce<\/strong>: his words are “very different from reality<\/strong>,” he said at a press conference alongside Finnish President Alexander Stubb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He said he would hear from Trump later today<\/strong> to discuss the meeting scheduled for Sunday in Jeddah<\/strong> (the very place where the Kyiv and Washington delegations had drafted<\/a> the proposal for a comprehensive ceasefire, trashed by Moscow) between the Russia and US negotiating teams, where they should discuss the next steps of the truce starting with the extension of the ceasefire to operations in the Black Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the time of writing, there has been no word yet on the prisoner exchange<\/strong> announced yesterday, which should\u00a0involve 175 Russian soldiers and as many Ukrainians<\/strong>, plus 23 seriously wounded Kyiv soldiers being treated in Federation clinics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In last night’s telephone conversation with Trump, the Kremlin leader again proposed unacceptable conditions for Kyiv to agree on a ceasefire. And he ordered new attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, despite a pledge to halt fighting in the skies for 30 days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":421766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[25907,26458,26042,25802,26411],"class_list":["post-421769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421806,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421769\/revisions\/421806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}