Ukraine conflict newest: Putin units out powerful situations for ceasefire whereas Trump hopes Russia will do ‘right thing’ | EUROtoday

It appears that perhaps Vladimir Putin doesn’t “have something” on Donald Trump in spite of everything.

The US president’s risk that he would “ruin” Russia if Putin doesn’t get on board together with his plan for a 30-day ceasefire doesn’t counsel that Trump is beholden to his Russian counterpart: “There are things you can do that wouldn’t be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially.”

There are “positive messages” emanating from Moscow, Trump has instructed reporters, however “a positive message means nothing” – a uncommon second of cynicism in direction of Putin from a president who has hitherto appeared unaccountably indulgent in direction of the Russian autocrat.

Admittedly, Trump is inviting Putin to enroll to what’s a extremely profitable provide, however nonetheless, it doesn’t sound like Trump is afraid of something the Kremlin may do. The risk arises that the deal is on, and that, if it isn’t, Trump will spend much more cash supporting Ukraine, and apply nonetheless extra strain than the Biden White House did to alter Putin’s thoughts.

Russian air defence models repelled an assault by 4 drones flying in direction of Moscow, mayor Sergei Sobyanin mentioned this morning.

The assault got here after three males have been killed within the Moscow area in what was described as the most important drone assault on the Russian capital for the reason that begin of the conflict in Ukraine.

A big hearth broke out at an oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai in a single day following an alleged assault by Ukraine, governor Veniamin Kondratyev claimed.

Over 100 hearth division officers have been working to extinguish a hearth that engulfed the gasoline storage tank, he added.

Videos posted on social media confirmed a big hearth burning within the depot.

Mr Kondratyev claimed that the area was rocked by explosions in an assault carried out by Kyiv.

The launch of the Kursk operation was marked by makes an attempt to interrupt by Ukrainian strains exterior the salient of land captured by Kyiv in a shock assault in August.

Likening the North Korean ways to a cyber assault that may crash an internet site with mass makes an attempt to entry it, a Ukrainian navy officer instructed The Independent: “[We faced] human waves like DDOS attacks on our positions… we killed eight out of 10 North Koreans.”

Sam Kiley experiences from Ukraine.

The US is reportedly poised to renew shipments to Ukraine of long-range bombs often known as Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB), after they have been upgraded to raised counter Russian jamming.

The munitions will arrive amid experiences that Ukraine’s provide of similarly-ranged Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) has been depleted, Reuters reported.

The glide-bombs have been bought below the US administration of former president Joe Biden utilizing the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.

The US has purchased practically $33.2bn value of latest arms and navy gear for Kyiv straight from US and allied protection contractors.

President Donald Trump’s administration agreed this week to renew navy assist and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Kyiv mentioned it was able to assist Washington’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia.

US president Donald Trump referred to as Vladimir Putin’s assertion on the US-proposed ceasefire “very promising” and mentioned he hoped Moscow would “do the right thing”.

“Now we’re going to see whether or not Russia is there, and if they’re not, it’ll be a very disappointing moment for the world,” he mentioned.

Mr Putin yesterday mentioned that Russia supported the ceasefire in Ukraine in precept, however sought plenty of clarifications and situations that appeared to rule out a fast finish to the preventing.

“We agree with the proposals to cease hostilities,” Mr Putin instructed reporters on the Kremlin. “The idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it.”

“But we proceed from the fact that this cessation should be such that it would lead to long-term peace and would eliminate the original causes of this crisis.”

Vladimir Putin’s overseas coverage adviser complained in televised remarks {that a} proposed ceasefire would grant a “temporary break for the Ukrainian military”.

Yuri Ushakov’s feedback got here a day after his telephone name with US nationwide safety adviser Michael Waltz.

Russia has reportedly introduced the US with an inventory of calls for for a deal to finish its invasion of Ukraine and reset relations with Washington.

It is unclear what was included in that letter however former senior British officers with a give attention to Russia have urged to The Independent that Moscow will attempt to extract maximal calls for from Washington in change for a ceasefire.

They say it’s more likely to embrace calling for Ukraine to disarm and for it to be barred from becoming a member of Nato or the European Union, tantamount to creating Ukraine a “non-country”.

European Union overseas coverage chief Kaja Kallas mentioned she thinks Russia will possible say sure to a ceasefire however with situations.

Ms Kallas mentioned the US has instructed members it understands that Russia could also be taking part in a sport to increase the method by blurring the image, she instructed Reuters.

Any delay would give Russia extra time for its troops to push the final Ukrainian forces out of Russia’s western Kursk area. Moscow additionally calls for that Kyiv completely cede territory claimed by Russia, a place that Ukraine rejects.

Ukraine and its allies describe Russia’s 2022 invasion as an imperial-style land seize, and president Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly vowed to defeat Russian forces.

Russian forces management practically a fifth of Ukraine’s territory and have been edging ahead since mid-2024.

Putin has now mentioned the state of affairs in Kursk, the place a speedy Russian offensive has recaptured giant pockets of land.

“The situation is fully under our control and the group that invaded our territory has been isolated, fully isolated,” he mentioned.

“Ukraine’s control over the Ukrainian forces has been lost.

“If there is a physical blockade, in the next two days, nobody will be able to leave. There will be only two ways: surrender or die.”