Trump threatens more sanctions against Russia if it does not agree with an extensive ceasefire

President VolodyMyr Zensky van Ukraine and President Trump talked late on Thursday on the phone, after which Mr Trump placed on social media that the United States would impose sanctions on Russia if it did not accept extensive cease-fire in his war with Ukraine.

During interviews in Saudi Arabia in March, the Trump government had proposed a 30-day truce to allow peace negotiations. Ukraine accepted the idea, but instead, Russia pushed for negotiating conditions for a settlement before he accepts a ceasefire.

After A meeting in Vatican City With Mr Zensky on the sidelines of the funeral of Pope Franciscus last month. Mr. Trump threatened Russia with sanctions when it originated from the negotiations. But his social media post after his call with Mr. Zensky was his clearest explanation so far that he linked extra American sanctions to Russia to acceptance of a 30-day reinforcement for negotiations.

“If it is striking -the Fire is not respected, the US and his partners will impose further sanctions,” Mr Trump wrote in the post, made on Truth Social, his social networking site.

The United States, Mr Trump, wrote, “Ideally, calls in a 30-day unconditional ceasefire.”

Mr. Zensky’s office published an reading of the call with Mr Trump that the two leaders had congratulated each other on the birthday of the end of the Second World War in Europe. It also said that the call: “President Trump confirmed that he wants to see this war end and is ready to help.”

Mr. Trump’s call with Mr. Zensky and his post marked a rotation through the administration closer to the functions of Ukraine in the conversations, after two months of concessions to Russia, including the broadening of diplomatic relations and voices against a UN resolution that Moscow convicted before the war.

The call was marked on May 8, commemorated in both Ukraine and the United States and the day of the Second World War in Europe. Russia celebrates the holiday on May 9.

Mr. Zensky quickly welcomed the approval of Mr Trump of a 30-day ceasefire, and posted on X on Wednesday that: “Ukraine is ready for a completely cease-fire that starts now, from this moment.”

Ukraine had rejected a Russian offer of a three-day truce around the Victory Day holiday and Parade in Moscow on FridayIt was attended by two dozen world leaders, including President Xi Jinping from China. Mr Zensky said that the Russian proposal did not allow enough time to negotiate a peace agreement and that it was only offered to put guests of the Moscow parade at ease.

Both Russia and Ukraine were launched in the days before the parade Volleys of exploding drones On the way to the capitals of the countries, disturbing flights near Moscow and killing two people and starting fires in Kiev.

Those attacks stopped after the start of Russia’s proposed ceasefire, but fighting along the front line in Eastern Ukraine took place as before. The army of Ukraine reported 193 combat assignments along the approximately 700-MIJL front in the last 24 hours on Friday morning.

In a movement that Ukrainians was certainly furious, Russian authorities revealed a bust of Stalin on Friday, decorated with red carnations, as part of Victory Day parties In the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol. A plaque commemorated by the bust Stalin’s leadership in the Second World War. Stalin is a described figure in Ukraine for the famine of the 1930s, known as the Holodomor who killed at least three million people, and is considered a genocide in Ukraine and several other countries.