Zelensky thanked Trump for the “productive” conversations before the ceasefire ends

Volodymyr Zelensky from Ukraine said that Donald Trump discussed sanctions against Russia, defensive cooperation and drone production before Moscow’s visit by American envoy Steve Witkov.

Thanks to Trump for “fruitful” talks on Tuesday, Zelensky claimed that Moscow was particularly “sensitive” to the possibility of sanctions.

Trump has previously stated that if Russia fails to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine by Friday, he will face huge sanctions or see secondary penalties imposed against all those who trade with it.

Witkoff will be in Moscow on Wednesday, and Vladimir Putin is expected to meet.

The Kremlin mostly cleared the threat of Trump’s sanctions, although a spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated last week that the Russian economy “developed a specific share” of the sanctions because it was under their long framework. Trump also admitted that he does not know whether the sanctions were “bothering” Putin.

The American president may hope that commercial partners in Russia will be sufficiently inconvenience from the customs tariff they will choose to stay away from buying oil in Moscow – ultimately in the revenues that the Kremlin needs to continue its war on Ukraine.

On Monday, Trump said he would do Imposing a huge new tariff on IndiaOne of the main buyers of Russian oil, accused of not paying attention to “the number of people in Ukraine who are killed by the Russian war machine.” “The two countries are trying to force countries to reduce trade relations with Russia,” it was “illegal,” the Kremlin said.

In the post post Zelensky telegram, he said that he and Trump also talked about a “increasing brutality” of Russian strikes on Ukraine.

The US President has already referred to Moscow’s repeated attacks on Ukrainian cities, indicating irritation that the bombings often follow “nice” phone conversations between him and Putin.

Only last February, Zelinski was asked to leave the White House after a catastrophic meeting accused by the American president of not thanking him enough to help in the United States and “Gambling with World War III.”

The two men gradually fixed their relationship. In July, Trump said that the United States would sell “late weapons” to NATO members who will then transfer them to Kiev-and this week it was announced that Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden would be the first country to buy weapons from the United States under this plan.

Their shared contributions will reach more than a billion dollars and will go towards air defense and ammunition equipment.

Danish Defense Secretary Truez Lundes Bolsen said the speed was “very critical” and that Denmark would be ready to consider additional financing at a later time.

After more than three years of the full invasion of Russia, Ukrainian cities are still suffering from major bombing and regular drone attacks. The authorities said last day, six people were killed across eastern Ukraine.

Before he took office repeatedly and repeatedly, he said he would be able to end the conflict in one day – and at his request from Russia and Ukraine sat on the ceasefire for the first time last May.

But the discussions failed to make the two sides closer to peace and it seems that the American president has been increasingly patient with no progress.

Despite Trump’s deadline on the horizon, Vladimir Putin poured cold water last week on any hopes for a long -term rapid ceasefire with Ukraine. Although he said he had seen talks with Kiev “positively”, he also pointed out that “all disappointments arise from enlarged expectations.”