{"id":40614,"date":"2025-04-22T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40614\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:42:08","slug":"putins-easter-pseudo-ceasefire-was-a-publicity-stunt-to-woo-trump-france-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40614\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s Easter pseudo-ceasefire was a publicity stunt to woo Trump, France says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia\u2019s Easter truce with Ukraine was a \u201ccharm operation\u201d to appeal to United States President Donald Trump, France\u2019s top diplomat said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot told broadcaster FranceInfo that the temporary ceasefire, which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday<\/a> \u2014 and which Kyiv accused Moscow<\/a> of breaking immediately and repeatedly \u2014 was only for appearances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Easter truce that he announced somewhat unexpectedly was a marketing operation, a charm operation aimed at preventing President Trump from becoming impatient and angry,\u201d Barrot told FranceInfo.<\/a><\/p>\n

As Trump\u2019s push for a negotiated peace between Russia and Ukraine has stalled, the U.S. president has become increasingly frustrated<\/a>, going as far as to say he is \u201cpissed off\u201d<\/a> at Putin, while slamming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

Moscow rejected Ukraine\u2019s proposal for a full ceasefire, issuing a long list of delaying questions and conditions, and repeatedly violated<\/a> an agreed-upon pact to not strike Ukraine\u2019s infrastructure for 30 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Easter truce with Ukraine was a \u201ccharm operation\u201d to appeal to United States President Donald Trump, France\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[32,2000,299,36,13302,332,9322,1771,657,49,333,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-40614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-jean-noel-barrot","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-russian-politics","15":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-vladimir-putin","19":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114380730843429062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}