Ukraine-Russia War Live: Zelensky accuses Putin of ‘Deception’ Trump with new 72-hour ceasefire

Of all the 20 percent of Ukraine’s territory taken after Russia invaded Crimea 11 years ago and launched its wider Anschluss in 2022, Crimea is the largest Russian award.

Whoever controls Sevastopol is likely to dominate the Black Sea and the sea of ​​Azov. Outside of Tartus, in Syria, which Russia recently lost, it is that is-or-Russia’s only hot weather gate.

US President Donald Trump said he thinks he “saves” the war hit Ukraine and that he is performing a “good service” for the country.

When he talked to Atlantic’s editor-in-chief of a sit-down interview on his first 100 days in office, Mr. Trump said, “I think I save that nation.”

“I think nation will be crushed very soon. It’s a big war machine … I think I’m doing a good service to Ukraine. I think so,” the US president said.

Mr. Trump accused his predecessor Joe Biden of the war he didn’t want to be “saddled with” in an interview with the news site.

“And again, this is (former US President Joe) the bite of the bite. I will not be saddled – I will not be saddled with it. It is a terrible war. Should never have happened. It would never have happened, so sure when you sit there,” said Mr. Trump.

When he repeats the threats of the United States of giving up the peace talks when his team hits a dead end to a ceasefire, Mr. Trump said, “We will have to see what happens in the next period in almost a week. We are down on final strokes.”

While claiming he was “on Ukraine’s side,” the US president said he “had a hard time with Zelensky.”

A Washington -Team has been engaged in intense shuttle diplomacy and looking to force through an agreement between Ukraine and Russia as progress towards peace seemed to be slower.

Washington also suggested de facto American recognition of Russian control of the occupied Eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk and parts of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Kherson, all of whom are on the front line.

It is unclear where the boundary lines would be and whether Washington requires Ukraine to release all the land currently occupied by Russia in the Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Kherson regions.

Russia’s drone attack overnight killed a 12-year-old girl in the DNIPROPROVSK region and wounded her parents, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said this morning.

Another child was rescued from under the rubble, the emergency said in a post on social media.

An unspecified number of drones from Russia have targeted Ukrainian cities this morning.

Russia said its air defense units destroyed at least 91 Ukrainian drones overnight, with 40 of them being set up over the Kursk region bordering Ukraine.

Of these, two of the drones were set up over the Moscow region, while the rest were destroyed over Russia’s western and southern regions as well as the Crimean Peninsula, the Russian Department of Defense said in a statement this morning.

Russia does not report the damage from Ukraine’s drone attacks and how many drones were launched in everything.

The latest drone attack comes just a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his troops had pushed Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region more than eight months after Kyiv staged a lot of cross-border intrusion.

Russian President Vladimir Putin exploits unilateral truce for information and battlefield benefits in Ukraine, says a US-based think tank.

The strategic ceasefire announced by Mr. Putin goes against Donald Trump’s goal of using a general ceasefire as a stepping stone against a sustained and sustainable peace agreement in Ukraine, said Institute for The Study of War.

“Putin seems to be opportunistically to declare a ceasefire during major religious and military holidays to force Ukraine to accept the ceasefire or risk that appears inconsistent to the West,” ISW said in his latest assessment.

It added that the Russian president “probably considers the Victory Day weapon to a chance for Russian forces to rest prior to future front-line activity in Ukraine and as a way of ensuring that Ukraine does not make any significant long-range strikes against Russia during Victory Day celebrations.”

“Putin probably doesn’t see the Victory Day weapon as a serious step towards lasting peace in Ukraine,” Isw said.

Ukraine’s allies will mount pressure on Russia in the coming days to force Vladimir Putin to accept a ceasefire, said French President Emmanuel Macron.

“For the next eight to 10 days we will increase the pressure on Russia. I remain careful (of a ceasefire) because part of the equation depends on Moscow,” Mr. Macron told the French outlets Market Paris yesterday.

Credit the progress that European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky made at Pope Francis’ funeral this weekend, Mr. Macron said: “We must be united and deterrent. I think we have succeeded, thanks to this meeting in the Vatican by putting pressure on Russia.”

The French leader said the intended goal of peace agreement was to make heavy concessions for Ukraine “because it was not true that the pressure is practiced solely on Ukraine”.

“We must be prepared with the Americans to harden our attitude towards Russia to get this truce,” Mr. Macron said.

A woman has been injured after Russia launched a drone attack overnight on Kiev, Ukrainian officials said today.

The attack burned a recreation center in the northeastern part of the Ukrainin.

Emergency aid was called Kyiv’s scattered Desnianskyi district, where dirt from a broken drone triggered a fire in the recreation building and wounded the woman, said Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

Head of Kyiv’s Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko, said that air defense systems were deployed just before 1 o’clock local time (2200 GMT yesterday) to try to reject the attack.

The extent of the attack is not immediately known.

The attack comes just days after Russia knocked the Ukrainian capital with missiles and drones, killed at least 12 people, and withdrew a rare decrease from US President Donald Trump, who said his administration was pushing Russia to stop the war.

As Kyiv claims its soldiers continue to cling to parts of Kursk after a Russian counter -peace involved North Korean troops quoted KCNA State News Agency North’s reigning party to say that its contribution showed the “highest strategic level of permanent militant friendship”.

“We cannot continue to dedicate time and resources to this effort if it is not going to perform,” the Secretary of State told NBC News.

Volodymyr Zelensky has said that an agreement with the US on the development of Ukraine’s minerals had become “stronger, more fair” after negotiations between the two sides.

“Today, our government also reported – representatives of Ukraine in negotiations with the United States – regarding the financial partnership agreement,” Mr. Zelensky said in his nightly address.

“The document has become much stronger – more fair – and could be beneficial to both our people, for Ukraine and for America,” he said.

Ukraine’s minerals have become central to global geopolitics, with US President Donald Trump, who is seeking an agreement with Ukraine’s President Volodymy Zelensky to access them.

On April 17, the Ukrainian officials announced that they had signed an overview of a mineral agreement with the United States and said a last deal could be reached by the end of next week.