On Tuesday the US President Donald Trump held a call with Vladimir Putin for 90 minutes to discuss a 30 day ceasefire in the war which was rejected by the Russian tyrant.
The Chairman of Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Committee told Sky News the call was a “total disaster” as Putin “doesn’t want to negotiate.”
Oleksandr Merezhko told Sky News, “It’s absolutely clear that Putin cannot and doesn’t want to negotiate in earnest.
“He doesn’t want negotiations. He doesn’t understand the meaning of negotiations or compromise.
“He can be dealt with only by the use of force, by using sanctions against their energy sector, against the banking sector in Russia, by giving more military aid to Ukraine. This is the only way we can exert pressure and to make him do anything at all.”
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Last week Trump warned Putin that he “can do things financially” which will be “very bad for Russia.”
The BBC reported, “There are things you can do that wouldn’t be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially. It would be very bad for Russia.
“I don’t want to do that, because I want to get peace.”
The US President that he believes the Ukrainian’s were once “difficult” and he has changed his opinion.
Merezhko said that the ball is now firmly in Trump’s court and everyone will learn very quickly if the US President will “deliver on his promise to be tough with those who disagree” with the ceasefire.
However, whilst Putin did not agree to a ceasefire, he did agree to the Russian military to stop bombing energy infrastructure for 30 days and said he will think about stopping all military action in the Black Sea.
Overnight the Russian military targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure which President Volodymyr Zelensky said whilst in Helsinki, Finland, Putin’s words is “different from reality.”
Zelensky accused Putin of breaking his promise to Trump during their phone call, he said, “Even this night, after Putin’s talk with Trump, when Putin allegedly said he had given the order to stop strikes on Ukrainian energy targets, 150 drones struck energy infrastructure and transport.”
The Kremlin has denied they attacked energy infrastructure and claims that Ukraine themselves fired on their own facilities.
The Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “There were no other orders from the president” Putin to target energy infrastructure in Ukraine adding Kyiv has shown “no reciprocity.”
He added, “It is absolutely clear that this is another provocation specially prepared by the Kyiv regime, aimed at disrupting the peace initiatives of the US president.”
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