An old trick. What's wrong with the Trump-Putin talks?
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Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:03:18 +0200
Trump and Putin may not have disclosed all their agreementsJournalists draw attention to the fact that during negotiations between the US and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia, Volodymyr Zelenskyys team accepted the US proposal for a 30day ceasefire.After that, State Department Secretary Marco Rubio said that now the ball is in Russias court.What is important to understand is that Putins phone call with Trump on March 18 was exactly the moment when the ball needed to be turned.
But the main public result was Putins refusal to accept a full ceasefire and his agreement only to suspend attacks on energy and infrastructure.
And even this agreement, it is said, did not last long within hours, Russian troops struck the energy infrastructure of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region.
As the publication notes, Putin has once again demonstrated his old trick, which ties Ukraines hands much more tightly than Russias.Another important point is that the negotiations between the Russian dictator and the US president lasted quite a long time over an hour and a half.It is quite possible that they managed to agree on many specific things, but did not announce it publicly.
Ukraine and the rest of Europe are not participating in these negotiations they can only guess what may be happening behind the scenes, the journalists emphasize.
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