Trump announces partial ceasefire in Ukraine war as Zelenskyy says deal is ‘news to me’

16 hours ago by MicroWave to c/world

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.

Zedstrian 64 points 16 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.

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ephrin 86 points 16 hours ago

It won’t matter, Putin won’t accept it anyways. This has happened many times before. Zelenskyy knows how to deal with Trump.

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Cethin 4 points 4 hours ago

No, this is a good play. It's all bullshit anyway, but it buys Zelenskyy some goodwill if he plays along. It also makes Trump look stupid when he doesn't follow up. There's literally no downsides. The only downside would be if it's real and Putin actually follows it. Neither of these would happen though.

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BlaestEgnen 3 points an hour ago

The only downside would be if it's real and Putin actually follows it.

Not sure how this would be a downside, Ukraine would be happy to get an energy ceasefire going into the cold months

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Cethin 0 points 40 minutes ago

Fair. Maybe it wouldn't be. Strategically, I think it'd be a negative for them though. They've had much more luck striking energy targets than Russia has. I can see the argument for it being a win no matter what too though.

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ji59 -15 points 15 hours ago

Plot twist, Zelensky agreed it to Trump privately, but refuses to admit it publicly, knowing nobody will believe Trump

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PattyMcB 2 points 11 hours ago

Now he's just fucking with Trump? That would be hilarious

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Malica -16 points 14 hours ago

Zelensky is in a desperate position :(

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massacre 43 points 14 hours ago

not really? He knows Putin won't follow it. He knows he can say "sure thing" knowing Putin wont' follow it to appease trumps bullying sense of power and finally, he has the upper hand with deep strikes on energy infra in Russia right now which he isn't going to have to stop because Putin won't. So really this is just useless posturing by Trump and he knows it.

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StabbingSky 32 points 14 hours ago

Nah, he's just calling trump's bluff. He knows Russia will never honor it.

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Malica 10 points 14 hours ago

I hope so, I trust the guy, smarter than me :)

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Davel23 19 points 13 hours ago path: 0 26284525 26285295 26285350 26285385 26286046, hotness: undefined, score: 19, children: 0
watson387 14 points 14 hours ago

He's definitely smarter than Trump.

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CannonFodder 2 points 11 hours ago

Ukrane can stockpile long range weapons for future strikes. They can also pivot and target other logistics

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Ilovethebomb 56 points 14 hours ago

He really did negotiate something with one party being completely uninvolved, didn't he?

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LifeInMultipleChoice 61 points 14 hours ago

I doubt he talked with either

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Buffalox 25 points 14 hours 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.

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SkaveRat 16 points 9 hours ago

if I read this correctly, it seems that neither russia nor ukraine were involved

just pure halucinated bullshit

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azimir 7 points 7 hours ago

He's been hallucinating things since before AI made it cool. A true trendsetter. The best.

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Cethin 1 point 4 hours ago

Almost certainly not. This is to shift attention from Iran for gas prices increasing I suspect. He's going to say the reason prices have gone up is because Ukraine is bombing Russian refineries (it has technically had an effect), not because of his invasion of Iran. He's going to say he signed a deal with Russia, but prices aren't decreasing quickly because Ukraine broke the ceasefire that he made up.

Assuming I'm right, it's actually a smart move. It only needs to be made because of a bunch of really dumb moves, but this would be smart. Most people, let alone most Americans, don't have a firm grasp on any of this, so the truth doesn't really have much power.

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SailorFuzz 29 points 16 hours ago

further proof that Trump just says shit

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blarth 20 points 14 hours 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.

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KindnessIsPunk 24 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, we call that lying, he does that a lot.

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DontRedditMyLemmy 4 points 7 hours ago

"Have you even told the truth once?"

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 3 points 7 hours ago path: 0 26288254 26289710 26289898, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
CatGPT 22 points 16 hours ago

Trumps lies aren’t worth reporting besides to say he’s lying again

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bold_atlas 1 point an hour ago

But then how will insiders trade stock for a massive profit if the news doesn't report what they're fed?

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icelimit 12 points 3 hours ago

Please continue to bomb russian oil and seize/sink their tankers. I'll gladly pay increased fuel prices on my end.

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Tollana1234567 11 points 6 hours ago

hes scared because Zelensky targeted the yandex datacenters that were responsible for the troll farms, traffic from the bots has fall drastically as a result.

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BC_viper 8 points 15 hours ago

Fuck you trump. You don't announce shit.

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SeeMarkFly 7 points 15 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?

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bold_atlas 4 points 6 hours ago

Ukraine would win.

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bertlewirth 2 points 3 hours ago

Considering that Putin thought he could just steamroll over Ukraine and 4 years later, Ukraine is still going, that doesn’t surprise me

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jubilationtcornpone 3 points 9 hours ago

Maybe, but I bet it's more that he's shitting himself over high fuel prices, caused by his illegal war with Iran, and has deluded himself in believing he can market manipulate his way out of Republicans getting destroyed in the midterms.

But unlike the stock market, oil supplies and wars don't magically respond anytime the moron in chief word vomits on the internet.

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SeeMarkFly 1 point 5 hours ago

wars don’t magically respond anytime the moron in chief word vomits on the internet.

Ooh you silver tongued wordsmiths amaze me sometimes. Thanks for being you.

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modernangel 6 points 15 hours ago

pedo announce what

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switcheroo 5 points 14 hours ago

Dumbass just spouts on nonsense expecting everyone to go along with it!

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rogsson 4 points 14 hours ago

Oh for fuck sake can someone just choke him with his diaper already

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Cethin 4 points 4 hours ago

(Copied from my reply to a comment, but it should be a top level comment.)

This is to shift attention from Iran for gas prices increasing I suspect. He's going to say the reason prices have gone up is because Ukraine is bombing Russian refineries (it has technically had an effect), not because of his invasion of Iran. He's going to say he signed a deal with Russia, but prices aren't decreasing quickly because Ukraine broke the ceasefire that he made up.

Assuming I'm right, it's actually a smart move. It only needs to be made because of a bunch of really dumb moves, but this would be smart. Most people, let alone most Americans, don't have a firm grasp on any of this, so the truth doesn't really have much power.

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JeeBaiChow 2 points 9 hours ago

Just rapist doing rapist things. His next statement will be that Ukraine doesn't want peace.

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bertlewirth 1 point 3 hours ago

Haven’t looked it up, but I recall trump saying something along these lines in recent times?

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Sam_Bass 2 points 33 minutes ago

the world, both good and bad sides of it, already knows that every word from trumps mouth is a lie so it behooves us all to watch his actions and go by them rather than what he says

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BilSabab 1 point an hour ago

whose side is he on?

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foenkyfjutschah 2 points 31 minutes ago

Profit.

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Sam_Bass 1 point 33 minutes ago

his own

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bstix 1 point a few seconds ago

He is always on his own side - the same way that shooting yourself in the foot is.

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Pratai 1 point 4 hours ago

That putz just says whatever the fuck his geriatricly addled mush of a brain can think of regardless of reality checking his ass like a shopping list.

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