SCHEMING Vladimir Putin has announced another temporary ceasefire in Ukraine for Russia’s Victory Day – as Donald Trump’s patience runs out.
A four-day ceasefire in Ukraine will begin from midnight on 8 May until May 11, based around mad Vlad’s 80th anniversary celebrations marking the end of the Second World War.
Putin speaks during a news conference with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko[/caption]
A woman is helped from the rubble after a strike in Kyiv on 24 April[/caption]
Ukrainian service members of the 25th Sicheslav Airborne Brigade fire a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launch system towards Russian troops[/caption]
The Kremlin said on Telegram that Russia “believes that the Ukrainian side should follow this example”.
It added: “In case of violation of the ceasefire by the Ukrainian side, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will provide an adequate and effective response.
“The Russian side once again declares its readiness for peace negotiations without preconditions, aimed at eliminating the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis, and constructive interaction with international partners.”
Putin had previously announced a 30-hour ceasefire in Ukraine over the Easter weekend – but Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian troops violated it nearly 3,000 times.
It comes hours after Trump urged the Russian dictator to “sit down and sign a deal” as he said Ukraine’s battlefields are covered in body parts.
The US President also revealed Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to make a major concession following their historic Vatican talks prior to the late pontiff’s final farewell.
Trump said on Sunday he was both “surprised and disappointed, very disappointed” that mad Vlad continued to bomb Ukraine – despite the dictator engaging in crunch talks with US peace envoy Steve Witkoff.
The pair held three-hour “constructive and very useful” talks, according to Witkoff.
And Trump said he thought Russia and Ukraine were “very close to a deal” with “most of the major points agreed”.
Prior to the talks, Putin flagrantly ignored Trump’s demands to end Russia’s barbaric attacks on civilian targets and launched vicious missile attacks that pounded Kyiv last Wednesday night.
Speaking to reporters at an airport in New Jersey on Sunday, the Republican said: “I was very disappointed that missiles were flying, by Russia.”
And, upon being asked what he wanted Putin to do, Trump responded: “Well, I want him to stop shooting. Sit down and sign the deal.”
Displaying similar impatience to Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week on the lack of peace progress, Trump added: “We have the confines of a deal, I believe, and I want him to sign it and be done with it.”
The President revealed he would find out “in about two weeks” whether he actually trusts Putin.
When asked what two weeks would mean, he added: “Two weeks or less, and if it’s a little more at the time, I say they’re losing a lot of people.
“We have three, four thousand people dying every week.”
Trump even described seeing “horrible” satellite images of “body parts laying all over the field” – and believes “it can’t get any worse”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, meeting with US President Donald J. Trump, left, in Saint Peter’s Cathedral[/caption]
Smoke rises in the sky over the city of Kyiv after a Russian drone strike[/caption]
