Ukrainian president earlier rejected US call for Kyiv to stop bombing oil refineries, saying Moscow must first end attacks on energy infrastructure

Ukrainian president earlier rejected US call for Kyiv to stop bombing oil refineries, saying Moscow must first end attacks on energy infrastructure

Donald Trump has announced an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, apparently without consulting Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said the deal to stop long-range attacks was “news to me”.

In a social media post, the US president claimed the two sides had reached an agreement. “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!” he wrote on Truth Social.

He offered no further details. Zelenskyy said he was surprised by the announcement but would agree to it if Vladimir Putin did the same. “If President Trump negotiated it with Putin – please tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready and we will accept it,” the Ukrainian president told the Axios website.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      34 minutes ago

      He negotiated it in his head, and is probably surprised that his thinking doesn’t equal reality.
      The man is completely delusional, he actually thinks he can make things real with his will!
      When he claims “only I can fix that”, he actually believes it. Because he believes he is the only one with a mind strong enough to will it to happen.

      This is a common phenomenon among for instance the very rich and highly positioned CEO’s and wall street traders, although generally to a smaller degree, like thinking they can influence how dice fall.
      It is also common within religion, like thinking praying actually works, which again turns to things like prosperity gospel, something Trump apparently also believes is true.
      And finally it is also something that tend to happen to narcissists.

      Trump is all these things, and has been delusional about having “powers” for decades, and his progressing dementia is making it worse.

      It’s the same mechanism that made Steve Jobs declined to have his cancer treated when it was discovered early enough to have a very high chance of success. He thought he could get rid of it himself somehow. When he finally realized he couldn’t, it was too late.

  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    35·
    3 hours ago

    He offered no further details. Zelenskyy said he was surprised by the announcement but would agree to it if Vladimir Putin did the same. “If President Trump negotiated it with Putin – please tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready and we will accept it,” the Ukrainian president told the Axios website.

    Zelenskyy shouldn’t offer to accept a Trump-brokered deal so readily given that Trump has no incentive to negotiate with Ukraine’s best interests in mind.

    • blarth@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      6·
      1 hour ago

      This is so that he can say Ukraine broke the ceasefire when Russia doesn’t observe the fake ceasefire and Ukraine keeps hitting Russian energy targets.

      Trump is a Russian asset.

  • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Seems like a setup to make Ukraine look like the “bad guys” here.

    Everyone “talking” peace but NOTHING changed.

    America better go in there and “teach” Ukraine a lesson.

    Any fair and accurate reporting going on?