President Trump on Thursday called for a 30-day “unconditional” ceasefire in Ukraine and threatened sanctions if it is not “respected.”
Trump made the call in a post on Truth Social shortly after holding a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Talks with Russia/Ukraine continue. The US calls for, ideally, a 30-day unconditional ceasefire,” the president said.
“Hopefully, an acceptable ceasefire will be observed, and both Countries will be held accountable for respecting the sanctity of these direct negotiations. If the ceasefire is not respected, the US and its partners will impose further sanctions,” Trump added.
The president’s call with Zelensky came after the Ukrainian parliament ratified the US-Ukraine minerals deal, although there was contention about two technical agreements that still need to be signed to fully implement the deal.
Zelensky’s government hasn’t shared the details of the two technical agreements, leading Ukrainian MPs to add an amendment to the ratification. According to POLITICO, the extra paragraph says “that ratifying the main economic agreement does not mean lawmakers will automatically approve another the two technical side deals that they have not yet been shown.”
After speaking with Trump, Zelensky said they “welcomed the Ukrainian Parliament’s ratification of the Economic Partnership Agreement — a truly historic document that opens up many new opportunities for cooperation.”
The Ukrainian leader said he also welcomed the idea of a 30-day ceasefire. “I also informed him that Ukraine is ready for a 30-day ceasefire, starting even today. We are waiting for Russia to support this proposal,” he wrote on X.
The Trump-Zelensky call came after Russia declared a three-day ceasefire for Russia’s celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union defeating Nazi Germany in World War II. Zelensky rejected the truce, and the two sides have accused each other of violations.
Trump's desperate efforts to save Kiev neo-Nazi regime are doomed to failure.
Trump can at least play Operation Paperclip II (import neo-Nazi Ukrainian scientists) and Operation Sunrise II (import & shelter 1000's of Ukrainian neo-Nazi military veterans, and politicians) once the Ukrainian Reich falls.
It's on Zelenskiyy to either kill himself in a Kiev bunker as the Russians close in OR sneak off to Argentina in a Ukrainian u-boat to die of complications related to Parkinson's 15-20 years later.
lol
Argentina is fine but Israel is safer for him. The best Ukrainian scientists relocated to North Korea long time ago, and it looks, they are okay.
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There is no such thing as a unilateral ceasefire. A ceasefire is an agreement between at least 2 parties. Since Ukraine did not agree to the 3-day ceasefire offered by Russia, and since Russia did not agree to Ukraine's counter offer of a 30-day ceasefire, no ceasefire is in effect, and there is nothing to violate. It's understandable that both sides regularly report the attacks of the other, but these are not ceasefire violations.
General Ben Hodges: It's a valid target. If I were Zelensky, I'd hit that parade with drones by the hundreds.
Imagine how many enemy presidents US weapons could kill.
What is you point? Should the Ukraine not respond to Putin specially targeting civilian populations.
Good visuals for the world: nazis bombing a parade held for victory over nazis.
MUH NATZEEES REEEEEEEEEE
Sweet living Hells.
We corrected you on this multiple times.
We shared this link :
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/20/on-neo-nazi-influence-in-ukraine/
…and you CONFIRMED YOU READ THE ARTICLE.
And WW2 was literally a victory for the Soviets over the original Nazis.
At this point you are ACTIVELY LYING, pretending there aren't neo-Nazis influencing Ukrainian politics and warfighting.
Quit f**king around, Vila. I Block liars, I'd rather you join is in Reality than be a dipwad white-feather propagandist hiding out in Poland 'til you can go back home & capitalise on the ruins of Ukraine that your special brand of dipsh*ttery has supported.
Stop overreacting about the nazis
I see you are enthusiastic about them.
They only dreamed about bombing the parade. Parade was okay. Chinese, Vietnamese and some other military units participated, even Egyptian.
OMFG, can you imagine ! FauxNews would use outdated footage of an Obama campaign rally and claim the Victory Day parade was celebrating Maoism's victory over Jesus.
And half my family would enthusiastically repost it on Facebook as "fact".
"Maoism's victory over Jesus" – Maoism is not a great diversion from Christianity
Na’ah, that’d just be FauxNews lumping together things their fan base hates (Maoism, Russians, certain kinds of parades) and things their fan base thinks is always a victim (Jesus).
FauxNews are doing their job, but seriously, Maoism is nearer to Christian ideals than any other modern pro-Christian ideology.
To add, Putin initiated this mess by specifically targeting civilians, and that should be unacceptable to world that does business with Russia. Shut them down!
Both Countries are wealthy in resources, both are Christian, both are the same race and share many foods and traditions. Why is it that in the 21st century that they cannot coexist???
To add: The Russian Orthodox Church, led by Patriarch Kirill, is generally seen as supporting the invasion of Ukraine, with Patriarch Kirill himself having publicly expressed support for the conflict. This has led the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which had previously been under the authority of the Moscow Patriarchate, to declare its independence and autonomy in protest.
General Hodges,,"Mr. Macho Man".
Maybe Trump has a cabinet spot for him??
Trump continues to show his incompetence.
Why does everyone pay so much attention what Trump says? He says one thing one day, something different the next and then reverses again. MAGA calls it diplomacy and 5D chess. What it is , it is the manipulation of people and countries so they never know where they stand and what Trump will finally end up doing like bombing Yemen while screaming that he is the best "peace president".
The US and Western main stream media and even some commenters here glorify Trump every day… but antiwardotcom exposes his foolishness every day as well…! So they neutralize each other…! All glorifications go down the drain at some point…!
I'm glad someone else gets it. Not sure why this is so hard for people to see.
It's all a shitshow since most of minerals are under Russian control territories…!
I thought this was something the Russians already said “Нет!” to ?
More bluster, less results.
“More bluster, less results.”
Yes, on both sides.
I think the Russians have remained consistent while Trump is up and down, up and down: Claiming agreements where there are none.
Bluster is in the eyes of the beholder.
May 9, 2025 Vladimir Putin's 80th Anniversary Victory Day Speech – English Subtitles
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses members of the Russian Armed Forces and international guests at the Military Parade to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.
https://youtu.be/-GR6PnQSSXo?si=MhcEgYd9w2iM5U0D
The Soviet Union and Nazis were dictatorships. It was a one-party state, with the Communist Party and the Nazi Party wielding absolute power, suppressing dissent, and controlling all aspects of life. Look how Russia and Germany has evolved today.—- What are you trying to say by posting this video???
I am not trying to say anything, I just allow others to speak for themselves, you will never get the global media. I count on you to be informed more than you were before you viewed, and listened.
Sanction all you want… Russia ain't gonna abide…!
All the U.S. sanctioning of the world is doing is driving other countries away from the U.S. In many ways, the U.S. still believes this is 1901, and we are still the indispensable nation. For one thing, the U.S. has willingly given away its manufacturing base to first China and now the rest of Asia. For the most part, the U.S. doesn't produce much that can't be had in some other place at a cheaper and equal or better quality then what you would get in the U.S. without the hassle of dealing with a U.S. administration that is constantly threatening and changing the rules. The U.S. is not a business-friendly country at the present time.
Keep waiting…! Or Zelenski thinks the 30-day ceasefire has already started at the same time with the Russian declared 3-day Victory Day ceasefire…!
Smartest dumbman comment:
A 30 day cease fire only allows Ukraine to rearm and strengthen defenses on the front lines. This is a hollow gesture which accomplishes nothing of substance.
Trump is receiving bad advice from the likes of dinosaur's like Kellogg who think it is still 1945 or 1953.
Russia will never again trust America not one inch, after America promised not to expand NATO one inch past East German's boarders if the Warsaw Pact was dissolved in the early 1990s..
"A 30 day cease fire only allows Ukraine to rearm and strengthen defenses on the front lines" – that is exactly what they are hoping for.
If that's what Kiev uses the proposed maybe-future ceasefire for, they'd be bigger idiots than they seem.
At Day 31, the Russian Federation would know for sure that's what Ukraine was up to in the preceding 30 days, and Kiev would NEVER get even a 30-SECOND ceasefire out of Moscow after that. Zelenskiyy's flimsy Reich would be proven utterly untrustworthy and Putin would therefore accept nothing less than unconditional surrender from Ukraine to end the war.
“Zelenskiyy’s flimsy Reich” has prevented the Russian forces from finishing the six-week job of securing Donetsk for more than three years now.
When it comes to what Putin will “accept,” that’s a function of what he can get. Which is likely eventually securing Donetsk, declaring “victory,” and withdrawing from the areas he’s had even less success in conquering.
Are you sure you are a former military man? Oh i forgot …you were in the USA military.
Ukraine's flimsy Reich + everything Biden et al could scrape together to the tune of a better part of half a billion in western nation taxpayers.
Why perpetuate the theme that it has been lonely little Ukraine fighting in this proxy war which everyone agrees was planned and executed by the Americans and the British over a 24 year stretch starting in 1991?
Let’s not pretend NATO and its members (USA foremost) aren’t 99.98% of the reason Ukraine is still in this fight.
Replay this war from the moment of the Russian Federation invading, with Ukraine and the RF in a “glass dome” sealed off from any external assistance (military, economic) for either side, and tell me how the Russian Federation doesn’t win this flat-out 99 of 100 times we reiterate these conditions.
I agree that if the US/NATO/EU states abandon the Ukrainian regime (or if they hadn’t backed it in the first place), things would look very different.
The early 2022 ceasefire deal would almost certainly have ended up happening, if Putin had invaded at all — which he probably wouldn’t have done, since the motivator for the invasion was his loss of the proxy war he and NATO waged in the Donbas from 2014-2022, and he would probably have won that.
If US, and some of the other, support ended today, Putin would probably still end up with the Donbas (and, of course, Crimea). The difference would be in how long it took for him to give up on Kherson, Zaporizhizhia, etc, where he’d be fighting a counter-insurgency instead of a conventional war.
And what do you think the Russians will be doing in the 30 days ceasefire? Both sides will strength their positions.
Russia doesn't need to 'strengthen' their position, they have been steadily advancing even if too slowly for many in Russia such as Medvedev, so you might see a push to end the war since it's obvious Zelensky, NATO, the E.U. and whomever else believe that they can still defeat Russia and aren't serious about an end to the war. Putin made the mistake in the beginning of believing the Ukrainians would agree to a treaty early on and if not for BoJo the Clown from the U.K, it might have happened. The longer they wait to give up the illusion of defeating Russia, the more land they lose.
In any war, there is always a need to strengthen one position during a cease fire. So yes Russia will strength their position. The biggest mistake Putin made at the beginning was assuming his army would run over Ukraine in matter of weeks. It did not work out for him. He is not the first nor will he be the last dictator to over estimate his arm forces.
"A 30 day cease fire only allows Ukraine to rearm and strengthen defenses on the front lines" And Russians will not do the same?
"threatened sanctions " Against who? Russia, what is left to sanction? Ukraine, any sanctions against them will just increase the chances of a Russian victory.
So despite him not understanding it, like pretty much anything other than the indispensible use of gold kitsch in bad taste interior decorating, it is Trumps war now. So now Trump, having met his inner neocon and unsurprisingly got on tremendously with himself, is aligning – well at least the coming few days probably – with authoratarian Zelensky and the unelected usurpers of the EU.
Mr Deals, mediator my ass, says Minsk III is the big beautiful idea. Brilliant!
Trumpenomics and so forth…..
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87j03x9px2o European leaders pressure Russia over 30-day Ukraine ceasefire
Not going to happen. Russia has said numerous times that a cease-fire would have to address the underlying conditions that caused the war in the first place. The U.S./Ukraine agreement would be like, "Okay you(Russia) won the war, now surrender". A 30-day cease-fire just gives Ukraine and the E.U. time to regroup and re-new the war in a stronger position.
End game of Western Clowns poking nuclear armed Russia!
This is what Antichrist Zelensky and evil Ukrainians want. America and Russia annihilating each other and the world.
Honestly, nobody gives a crap about what Trump calls for. He's not just completely tone deaf, he's so wrapped up in himself that the population of the world he inhabits is himself. There's no room in there for anyone else.
I see no point in looking for any solutions to any real problems from Donald Trump.
How sweet, fascist and nazi neoliberals cozying up together over another wealth transfer.
https://www.rt.com/russia/617329-zelensky-talks-unconditional-ceasefire/
Keith Kellogg presided over this meeting.
Not going to happen. Russia has said numerous times that a cease-fire would have to address the underlying conditions that caused the war in the first place. The U.S./Ukraine agreement would be like, "Okay you(Russia) won the war, now surrender". A 30-day cease-fire just gives Ukraine and the E.U. time to regroup and re-new the war in a stronger position.
" the underlying conditions that caused the war in the first place" The only way that would happen if the aggressor Putin would resign and that is not going to happen. Putin started this war for personnel gains. All the reasons Russia give for invading another nation is just made up to justify their large numbers of deaths. How many Russians have died? Who knows, but it is North of 100,000.