Last night, Donald Trump addressed the ceasefire in Ukraine (Image: Getty)
US President said the White House had received some “pretty good news” on the 30-day ceasefire proposal between and . The speech held on Friday night followed talks between Ukrainian and US officials in Saudi Arabia earlier this week, when Kyiv agreed to a temporary ceasefire plan. Washington is now attempting to persuade Moscow to accept the deal.
Trump said: “We’ve had some very good calls today with and with . They’ve agreed to a ceasefire if we can get it with , and it’s not easy. It’s a tough one. But I think we’re doing it. … I think we’ve had some very good results. I haven’t been able to say that to anybody else, I haven’t wanted to say it until just before I came here, I got some pretty good news.”
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Trump didn’t elaborate on what the good news was and admitted there was still a “long way to go”.
This comes as reportedly set two “red lines” for any ceasefire deal during the country’s delegates’ meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. A source close to the meeting claimed to the European Pravda that the Kyiv administration would not bow to restrictions on which institutions it could join, including NATO, nor accept limits to the size of its military.
has since said he agrees with the idea of a ceasefire – but added “questions” remain about the nature of a truce. It is feared the Russian despot will set out a number of conditions for peace unacceptable for .
Mikhail Kasyanov, Putin’s first prime minister and now an opponent of the Russian president, said Moscow was only interested in a conditional ceasefire. Appearing on Radio 4’s Today programme, he said: “He rejected this proposal for an unconditional ceasefire, he wants conditional, he wants a ceasefire on his terms.”
The aftermath of a Russian missile attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih on March 14 (Image: Serhii Lysak/Telegram)
On the same night of Trump’s update on the ceasefire talks, Russian troops attacked ’s hometown, Kryvyi Rih, injuring at least 12 people, including two children.
Last week, as intensified attacks on , a strike on a hotel in Kryvyi Rih killed six people.
In the meantime, diplomats from G7 countries reaffirmed their commitment to , and , announced an allocation of €3 billion in new military aid to the country.