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Trump-Putin agreement: The Russian President promised not to fire for a week!
US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff said Thursday negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine have made significant progress and are expected to continue next week.
Good things are happening
“We think we made a lot of progress,” Witkoff said at a Cabinet meeting. His remarks came after Russia and Ukraine held US-mediated consultations in the United Arab Emirates. A new round is due on Sunday, again in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi, the Turkish Anadolu news agency wrote.
The talks will continue in about a week, but lots of good things are happening between the counterparties discussing the land deal, Witkoff said.
He said negotiators have largely completed two key components of a broader agreement: a security protocol and a prosperity framework intended to support Ukraine’s postwar stability and reconstruction.
Security protocol agreement largely finished
“We have a security protocol agreement that’s largely finished, a prosperity agreement that’s largely, largely finished. And I think the people of Ukraine are now hopeful and expecting that we’re going to deliver a peace deal sometime soon,” he added.
Separately, addressing the Cabinet officials, Trump said he told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin not to fire into Ukraine’s capital Kyiv for a week.
“I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv and various towns for a week, and he agreed to do that,” Trump said, citing “extraordinary cold.” “It was very nice. A lot of people said, ‘Don’t waste the call, you’re not going to get that.’ And he did it,” Trump added.
Zelenskyy says energy ceasefire in Ukraine discussed at Abu Dhabi peace talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said an energy ceasefire was discussed during trilateral peace talks in the United Arab Emirates last week, after Donald Trump said Russia’s Vladimir Putin agreed to halt strikes for a week, based on Anadolu.
In a statement on US social media company X, Zelenskyy reacted to US President Trump’s remarks during a meeting that he “personally asked” Russian President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities amid extreme winter conditions.
“Power supply is a foundation of life. We value the efforts of our partners to help us protect lives,” Zelenskyy said, thanking Trump.
“Our teams discussed this in the United Arab Emirates. We expect the agreements to be implemented. De-escalation steps contribute to real progress toward ending the war,” he added.
In further remarks on the matter, Zelenskyy said in an evening video address that “the situation tonight and over these days” will “show how things stand.”
Check out our previous articles concerning the ongoing war in Ukraine:
- What is going on? Ukraine summoned the Hungarian ambassador
- Ukraine’s foreign minister: PM Orbán poses a danger to his own people
Featured image: Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska. Source: FB/Viktor Orbán.
We as Hungarian Canadians and others… do not give importance to VP and DT.
But the present Russian political administration must simply, totally withdraw from Ukraine, and stay within its own original borders.
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Any search will show that Moscow is also in the dark and has huge supply line problems because of Ukriane’s attacks on refinery sites, airports, missle sites etc. If you present the disparity in reporting to any AI platform, you will find that western media has not been reporting Ukraine successes most of the time, why is an unknown. So Putin wants to stop now, what a surprise. I hope Ukriane says no, since it will only help Putin reload, and he will try to reload with the troops and ground vehicles he has left.
I just looked that up. I was unaware that these power outages were happening in the Moscow region. Electrical stations in multiple locations have been hit. Good work Ukraine! Give the Russian bastards some of the same pain that they have been inflicting on Ukraine. They very much deserve it.
Not just moscow and not only because of Ukrainian attacks… cities all over russia are reporting loss of heat and/or power. Infrastructure has been neglected for years to fuel russia’s war machine and a harsher than usual winter is pushing barely functioning infrastructure over the edge.
There are videos of people begging political leaders for help….
But none of this personally affects the russian leadership so nothing will change.
I guess Russian week last for 3 days as today, 4th day since this “week long truce” started, Russia hit Kiev hard with missiles: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwng25114ro
“The combined missile and drone strikes hit power plants and infrastructure in Kyiv”