Russia declares ‘Trump’s peace deal is dead’ as Kremlin threatens to seize all of Ukraine
A senior Russian politician released a map showing almost all of Ukraine taken over by Putin’s forces.
Donald Trump told reporters he was not happy with Putin’s continued aggression (Image: Getty )
The Russian press had declared Donald Trump’s peace deal is “dying a slow death” as a key ally of Vladimir Putin mocked Western ceasefire plans by posting a map showing almost all of Ukraine occupied by Kremlin forces. The Moscow-based daily newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets ran an editorial on current ceasefire negotiations, commenting that it believed the President’s “energy charge” had “gone flat” and that it would soon become “obvious” even to Mr Trump that any deal was in its “death throes”.
The bleak assessment was reported by the BBC‘s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg during his regular dispatch covering the nation’s headlines. He added that the piece in the Moskovskij Komsomolets said: “The Trump factor was significant and strong enough to get Moscow and Kyiv to the negotiating table, but judging by the current picture, it feels like Trump’s peace plan is dying a slow, but necessarily painful death.
The newspaper continued: “What will happen when these death throes become so obvious that even the chronically optimistic US President cannot ignore them is a big question.”
A map posted by Putin’s crony Dmitry Medvedev showed Ukraine almost fully occupied by Russia. (Image: X)
The editorial said it did not believe Moscow wanted to “lose Trump”, but that the desire not to “alienate” him took second place to the priority, which was “victory in Ukraine“.
Ukraine‘s President Volodymyr Zelensky has already publicly agreed to a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, but Vladimir Putin has been reticent to attend any peace talks personally, instead only sending lower-ranking officials to a meeting in Turkey earlier this month.
