{"id":22668,"date":"2026-04-30T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/22668\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:01:29","slug":"trump-and-putin-call-for-a-brief-cease-fire-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/22668\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Putin Call for a Brief Cease-Fire in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a lengthy phone call on Wednesday, President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia agreed that there should be a brief cease-fire in Ukraine in the coming days, according to both Mr. Trump and a top adviser to Mr. Putin.<\/p>\n

The cease-fire would coincide with the May 9 Russian holiday marking the end of World War II, said Yuri Ushakov, Mr. Putin\u2019s chief foreign policy adviser, but he did not give precise timing.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House: \u201cI suggested a little bit of a cease-fire and I think he might do that. There\u2019s so many people being killed, it\u2019s so ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Ushakov did not say explicitly who had suggested a truce, but said that Mr. Putin \u201cinformed his American counterpart of his readiness to declare a cease-fire for the duration of the Victory Day celebrations.\u201d Mr. Trump \u201cactively\u201d supported the idea, Mr. Ushakov said.<\/p>\n

This year, Russia has significantly pared down<\/a> its plans to celebrate Victory Day, which is among the most sacrosanct of state holidays under Mr. Putin, and usually sees parades in all major cities and many towns. In a departure from decades-long tradition, there will be no heavy military equipment rolling through Red Square, an acknowledgment of Ukraine\u2019s long-range strike capacity.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that Kyiv first needed to clarify what Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin had discussed before it could weigh in on a potential cease-fire. Moscow and Kyiv brokered a cease-fire earlier this month<\/a>, timed to coincide with Orthodox Easter, but each side accused the other of multiple violations.<\/p>\n

The conversation between the two leaders came a day after King Charles III, addressing Congress, said that \u201cunyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people in order to secure a truly just and lasting peace.\u201d It was not clear what private exchanges the king and Mr. Trump had on the matter.<\/p>\n

Most U.S. allies in Europe have remained committed to backing Ukraine, but Mr. Trump, who has at times blamed Ukraine for a war<\/a> that began with Russia\u2019s invasion in 2022 and spoken warmly of Mr. Putin, has sharply curtailed aid to Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ushakov said that both presidents expressed \u201cin essence\u201d similar opinions about Kyiv, which he said was being \u201cincited and supported by Europeans\u201d into \u201cpursuing a strategy aimed at prolonging the conflict.\u201d The White House has not yet issued a readout of the call.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ushakov also said Mr. Trump \u201cbelieves that a deal to bring an end to the conflict in Ukraine is now close at hand.\u201d Before taking office in January 2025, Mr. Trump said repeatedly that he could bring the war to a quick end, a claim he has not repeated publicly of late, saying instead that he has been surprised at how intractable it is. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump once again appeared somewhat optimistic, saying, \u201cI think we\u2019re going to come up with a solution relatively quickly, I hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Mr. Ushakov, Mr. Putin said his objectives in Ukraine would be achieved no matter what, though he \u201cwould have preferred for this to be the result of a negotiated settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Ushakov said much of the call, which lasted one and a half hours, was focused on the war in the Middle East. Mr. Putin said he supported Mr. Trump\u2019s decision to extend the cease-fire with Iran and \u201cdrew attention to the inevitable and extremely detrimental consequences \u2014 not only for Iran and its neighbors but also for the entire international community\u201d if the United States and Israel resumed military action.<\/p>\n

He said the Russian leader offered a \u201cnumber of considerations aimed at resolving disagreements regarding the Iranian nuclear program.\u201d<\/p>\n

The call was the 12th between the two leaders since Mr. Trump returned to office for a second term.<\/p>\n

Reporting was contributed by Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Ed Wong from Washington, Constant M\u00e9heut from Kyiv, Ukraine, and Michael D. Shear from New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a lengthy phone call on Wednesday, President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia agreed that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9937,6238,8,9,13025,790,7,1071,536,6237,13026,12631,12630],"class_list":{"0":"post-22668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-defense-and-military-forces","9":"tag-donald-j","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-putin","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-trump","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-united-states-international-relations","18":"tag-vladimir-v","19":"tag-volodymyr","20":"tag-zelensky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116494262769011977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}