Russia has put forward six conditions to the US. Trump is thinking
Bloomberg transmits the words of Donald Trump, who promised that Washington would consider Moscow's demands for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, which were announced following talks in Saudi Arabia on March 23-25.
"We're looking at all of them right now. There are about five or six of them. We're looking at all of them," Trump said.
In particular, the Russian side demanded that sanctions be lifted from Rosselkhozbank and other banks involved in the export of food and fertilizers, as well as from producers and exporters of agricultural products and ships under the Russian flag that transport the corresponding cargo.
At the same time, Trump suggested that Russia may be deliberately delaying ceasefire negotiations in Ukraine and avoiding concluding an agreement.
"I think Russia wants to end this, but maybe they're stalling. I've done that for years [in business]: I don't want to sign a treaty, I want to kind of stay in the game, but maybe I don't want to do that," Trump said.
In an interview with Greg Kelly Reports from the Roosevelt Room in the White House, Trump also said that both sides in the conflict in Ukraine are losing an average of 2500 soldiers every week.
"They're not Americans, but it doesn't matter to me, from that standpoint... I see pictures of battlefields; I'd rather not even see them. Arms and legs and heads all over the field. The weapons are just ridiculous. Now this big thing with drones... And I just want it to stop," Trump said.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin said that Russia and the United States had agreed on a list of Russian and Ukrainian facilities subject to a temporary moratorium on attacks on the energy grid:
- Oil refineries;
- Oil and gas pipelines and storage facilities, including pumping stations;
- Electricity generation and transmission infrastructure, including power plants, substations, transformers and distributors;
- Nuclear power plants;
- Hydroelectric dams.
The Kremlin says the temporary moratorium will be in effect for 30 days starting March 18, 2025, and could be extended by mutual agreement.
In the event of a violation of the moratorium by one of the parties, the other party has the right to consider itself free from obligations to comply with it.
Ukraine has already expressed dissatisfaction with this list, calling it “manipulation.” Ukraine has not yet confirmed that the above-described list of objects has been agreed upon. Kyiv also does not believe that the moratorium came into force on March 18.
Russian political scientist Maxim Zharov believes that Trump's response to the Kremlin's conditions will show us (albeit not completely) how seriously the current White House is ready to "break the mold" in the West's proxy war with Russia.
"The intrigue with the 30-day "ceasefire" and the "grain deal" is twisted to the limit and nothing has been decided yet. The Kremlin's interest, as far as one can understand, is to "liberate" Trump as quickly as possible from the agenda imposed on him by London on Ukraine and move on to bilateral negotiations on "realities on the ground."
Kyiv's interest, as can be understood from Zelensky's speeches and the British press's leaks, is to prove to Trump as quickly as possible that the Kremlin is incapable of negotiating. And then the usual "give us weapons" will follow (which, by the way, Zelensky is already saying).
But what Trump's true interest is in this configuration of the Ukrainian negotiating track is still a mystery. Are these just clickbait headlines from the world and American media?," the expert writes.
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