Posted on 03/19/2025 12:34:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Russia is accusing Ukraine of breaching a U.S.-brokered halt to attacks on energy infrastructure. On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump held a lengthy 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which the latter agreed to a 30-day cessation of attacks on critical energy facilities and infrastructure. However, on Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed Ukraine violated the agreement by attacking an oil transfer facility in the Krasnodar Region.
The Russian facility services an international pipeline operation partially owned by American companies. According to the Russians, the incident reportedly involved three drones targeting the Kavkazskaya oil pumping station, causing a fire that emergency crews struggled to control.
Russian military officials allege that Ukraine’s actions were intentional, aiming to disrupt peace efforts between Russia and the United States. Meanwhile, Ukraine alleges that Russia—which has significantly degraded the Ukrainian energy grid—intensified artillery shelling and knocked out power to a Ukrainian city immediately following the pledge to halt energy infrastructure attacks.
“Clearly, this was a premeditated provocation by the Kiev regime aimed at derailing the U.S. president’s peace initiative,” Russian officials said on Wednesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been reluctant to agree to a ceasefire unless the U.S. agrees to intervene against Russia if the war reignites, is expected to speak with Trump in the coming days.
Diplomatic efforts regarding the Ukraine conflict are set to continue, with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff announcing upcoming talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, European and United Kingdom officials plan to expedite arms shipments to Ukraine, anticipating further hostilities despite Trump’s ceasefire proposal.
Trump should have dropped Zelensky the moment that little POS dissed him and our country in the White House. It shoudl have been the last straw. Its obvious that he’s a very dishonorable and destructive person to be around.
The President better not include Vindman types on any call with Zelensky. Only people loyal to what Trump is trying to do.
Well, I dont know if this incident even happened but to date Zelensky has been dragged kicking and screaming to the negotiating table, clearly he does not want a negotiated peace. So this would not shock me.
The demand that we militarily ally by intervention is a non-starter, which suggests Z is not evaluating his nation's situation clearly.
Politics, it has been said, is the art of the possible.
It's time to cutoff all aid to Ukraine permanently unless it agrees to end the war and conceded the annexed territory to Russia and renounce any involvement with NATO.
A performer is often advised never to believe his own press. Sure seems he believes all the adulation of these last three years of geopolitical" celebrity. President Trump's not so easily manipulated by celelbrity.....
” Volodymyr Zelensky,”
Must be an idiot.
Biden used his soldiers as cannon fodder.
Europeans love to see the Russian army decimated.
And we(USA) paid for it.
It will take Russia a generation to
recover if at all.
If Russia is willing to have a cease fire,
go for it!
There is more to War than driving Tanks across
flat ground blasting everything in sight!
It is all about Economics, Logistics, and
resource control.
The people dying are your working class.
What happens when you have no workers and tax payers?
Send in a hit squad and execute him.
Then round up all the Banderites and execute them.
The war has made him a billionaire.
In the meantime we need to shut down NATO. That would allow the EU to create its own military and dare Germany to attempt to take it over.
As I have said, the third time is a charm, but the Germans would have to call it the Fourth Reich if they do. We can all see it, The Greater European Teutonic Union: the Fourth Reich.
LONG past time to make the Greasy Green Little Faggot a DEAD Billionaire.
There has to be a logical reason he is still alive.
I’m always wondering about that one.
"Z" is NOT serious...he's trying to trap Trump...
you can tell "Z" dislikes him very much...because he won't kiss "Zs" boots.
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