About a hundred days after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, no outcome is in sight but the cards are rebatted: the United States has come closer to Russia, leaving Ukraine in a position of weakness. This Sunday, April 20, the President of the United States said he hoped for an agreement “in the week” between the two protagonists, after threatening to withdraw from the negotiations.
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⇒ Donald Trump hopes for a “this week” agreement between Russia and Ukraine
⇒ Russia resumes its air strikes in Ukraine after the truce
⇒ Ukraine and Russia are accused of raping the truce
Crimea, NATO, Zaporijia: Washington expects concessions from kyiv, according to “Wall Street Journal”
Ukraine is under pressure to respond this week to an American proposal aimed at ending the war with Russia. This proposal includes the possibility for Washington to recognize the annexation of Crimea by Moscow in 2014 and to exclude Ukraine from NATO, reported the Wall Street Journal,, Sunday April 20, citing a document obtained. These proposals, presented by senior officials of the Trump administration during a confidential meeting with their Ukrainian and European counterparts in Paris on April 17, were confirmed by Western officials Wsj.
Donald Trump hopes for a “this week” agreement between Russia and Ukraine
Donald Trump said he hoped for a “week” agreement between Russia and Ukraine, in a brief message broadcast on his Truth Social network on Sunday. “We must hope that Russia and Ukraine will come to an agreement this week,” the American president wrote. “Both can then do good business with the United States of America, which is booming, and winning a fortune!”.
On Friday, Donald Trump had, on the contrary, threatened to withdraw from negotiations, due to the lack of rapid progress in the separate discussions that his lieutenants have started for several weeks with kyiv and with Moscow.
Russia resumes its air strikes in Ukraine after the truce
Russia has resumed its air strikes on Ukraine after the expiration of the 30 -hour Pascale Truce decreed by Moscow, Ukrainian officials announced on Monday April 21. “The Russian army has launched drones in the region” of Dnipropetrovsk, said the governor of this region in eastern Ukraine, Serguii Lyssak. A house was damaged and a fire broke out in a food factory, but no one injured was reported, he said on Telegram. Vitalï Kim, governor of the Mykolaïv region, in southern Ukraine, said that Russian air attacks have also taken over in this region.
Ukraine and Russia are accused of raping the truce
Ukraine and Russia have mutually accused themselves of continuing their attacks, despite the 30 -hour Pascale truce announced the day before by Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who had accepted the truce announced by Russia, said in the evening that the Russian forces had violated this ceasefire “more than 2,000 times” since the start of the morning, while stressing that they had not carried out any Russian attacks “today”. Seven in the last day, regional authorities reported on April 21.