Trump hopeful Russia and Ukraine could make a deal this week

[ad_1] President Donald Trump is "hopeful" Russia and Ukraine could make a deal this week after a short lived Easter ceasefire between the 2 nations ended.

"Hopefully Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week," Trump posted on his social media platform, Fact Social.

"Each will then begin to do large enterprise with the US of America, which is prospering, and make a fortune!"

The war between the two nations has raged for greater than three years and has value the lives of tens of 1000's of individuals on either side.

PUTIN ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY EASTER CEASEFIRE IN UKRAINE WAR

President Trump says the U.S. ought to management Ukraine's nuclear energy crops in a safety transfer as ceasefire negotiations begin. (Getty Photographs used to create Fox Information Picture)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of breaking their ceasefire settlement and mentioned "the Russian military has violated Putin’s ceasefire greater than two thousand instances."

"The full variety of violations by the Russian military of Russia’s personal ceasefire promise all through the day reached 2,935. The very best variety of shellings and assaults occurred within the Pokrovsk," Zelenskyy wrote.

"The Russian promise of full silence didn't unfold within the Kursk course both. In whole, there have been 96 Russian assaults on the entrance, 1,882 shelling of our positions, and particularly 812 with heavy weapons, Russian FPV drones had been used greater than 950 instances." — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Zelenskyy added that Ukraine will stay a mirror-image and "will reply to silence with silence our strikes in protection of Russian strikes."

"Actions are at all times extra eloquent than phrases," Zelenskyy mentioned.

PUTIN CONSCRIPTS 160K MEN AS RUSSIA EYES UKRAINE OFFENSIVE

Native residents stroll among the many particles close to a broken home, a day after a Russian strike on a suburb of Odesa, southern Ukraine, on March 7, 2025. (OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

Putin ordered his forces to cease all army exercise alongside the entrance line within the momentary Easter ceasefire till midnight, Moscow time, on Sunday.

Zelenskyy beforehand mentioned that if the Easter ceasefire truly held up, he would suggest extending it longer.

"That's what will reveal Russia’s true intentions – as a result of 30 hours is sufficient to make headlines, however not for real confidence-building measures," he mentioned. "Thirty days may give peace an opportunity."

Zelenskyy added that "there is no such thing as a belief in phrases coming from Moscow" after certainly one of his army leaders reported that Russia had appeared to interrupt their truce.

"We all know all too effectively how Moscow manipulates, and we're ready for something. Ukraine’s Protection Forces will act rationally – responding in form. Each Russian strike will probably be met with an applicable response," Zelenskyy mentioned.

ZELENSKYY SENSATIONALLY PREDICTS PUTIN 'WILL DIE SOON'

President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Getty Photographs)

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., echoed Zelenskyy and mentioned on "Face the Nation" on CBS that the chance of Russia upholding the deal is "completely as much as Vladimir Putin."

"The person has by no means saved his phrase, ever, in any context, so far as I am conscious," Fitzpatrick mentioned. "So we've got to know what we're coping with. Our authorities, I hope, is aware of who they're coping with Vladimir Putin. He is not a person of his phrase. He is not keen on peace. I hope he will get there."

Fitzpatrick added that he felt like Secretary of State Marco Rubio is "doing an excellent job and understands Putin."

"He understands the dynamic of the Russia-Ukraine battle and the historical past there. And I've full religion in his potential to barter a simply and honest settlement," Fitzpatrick defined. "However it's vital to recollect, and this is applicable to all agreements the place we facilitate as a nation, that it is finally as much as the nations to just accept and abide by these circumstances."

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"President Zelensky, the Ukrainian folks desperately need peace. They've at all times wished peace. They had been a peaceable nation earlier than Russia wrongfully invaded them, they usually need to get it again. However it's got to be a simply and lasting peace," he mentioned.

The momentary ceasefire got here after Trump on Thursday mentioned an 80-page minerals deal will probably be signed with Ukraine in a single week. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later mentioned it will probably be signed on April 26.

Particulars on the settlement stay comparatively unknown, although current reporting by Bloomberg has instructed the U.S. has eased again its calls for for reimbursement for its assist in Ukraine’s battle in opposition to Russia from $300 billion to $100 billion.

Fox Information Digital's Michael Dorgan and the Related Press contributed to this report.

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