Trump hopeful Russia and Ukraine can make a deal this week

president Donald Trump is “optimistic” in Russia and Ukraine that can conclude this week after the end of the temporary ceasefire between the two countries.

“We hope that Russia and Ukraine will explain this week’s deal,” Trump posted on the social media platform, Truth Social.

“Both of them will start carrying out major businesses with the United States of America, which thrives, and makes a fortune!”

The war between the two countries erupted for more than three years and cost tens of thousands of people on both sides.

Putin announces a temporary ceasefire in the Ukraine war

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of violating the ceasefire agreement and said, “The Russian army has violated the ceasefire Putin more than two thousand times.”

“The total number of violations made by the Russian army reached the rudeness of the ceasefire in Russia throughout the day to 2935. The largest number of shells and attacks that occurred in Bakroufsk.”

“The Russian promise did not spread completely in the direction of Kursk as well. In total, there were 96 Russian attacks on the introduction, and 1882 of our positions, especially 812 with heavy weapons, Russian FPV aircraft were used more than 950 times.” President Ukraine Voludmir Zelinski

Zelinski added that Ukraine will remain a mirror image and will silence silently our strikes in defending Russian strikes.

“The procedures are always more eloquent than the words,” Zelinski said.

Putin reaps 160 kilometers

Local population between the debris is running near a damaged house, a day after a Russian strike in a suburb of Odessa, southern Ukraine, on March 7, 2025. (OLKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin ordered his forces to stop all military activity along the confrontation line on the temporary Easter until midnight, Moscow time, on Sunday.

Zelenskyy said previously that if the shooting is actually stopped on Easter, it suggests its extension for a longer period.

“This is what will reveal the real intentions of Russia-because 30 hours are sufficient to export the headlines, but not for the measures of building real confidence,” he said. “Thirty days can give peace a chance.”

“There is no confidence in the words coming from Moscow” after one of his military leaders stated that Russia seemed to break their truce.

“We know very well how Moscow is manipulating, and we are ready for anything. The Ukrainian Defense Forces will work rationally – responding somewhat. Each Russian strike will be met with an appropriate response,” Zelinski said.

Zelenskyy predicts an exciting form of Putin “Simut soon”

President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Folomer, the left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Getty Images)

Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, Ra Pa, Zelesky said in “Confronting the Nation” on CBS that the possibility of Russia’s support for the deal “is completely up to Vladimir Putin.”

“The man never kept his word, in any context, as much as he realized,” said Fitzpatrick. “So we have to know what we are dealing with. I hope our government will know those who deal with Vladimir Putin. He is not a man from his word. He is not interested in peace. I hope he will get there.”

Fitzpatrick added that he felt that he was Foreign Minister Marco Rubio “is doing a great job and understands Putin.”

“He understands the dynamics of the Russian-Ukraine conflict and history there. I have a complete belief in its ability to swap a fair and fair agreement,” Fitzpatrick explained. “But it is important to remember, and this applies to all the agreements that we facilitate as a nation, that it is eventually left to the nations to accept these conditions and adhere to them.”

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“President Zellinski, the Ukrainian people strongly want peace. They always wanted peace. They were a peaceful nation before Russia invaded them incorrectly, and they want to restore it. But it must be a fair and permanent peace,” he said.

The temporary ceasefire came after Trump said on Thursday that the 80 -page metal deal will be signed with Ukraine in one week. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessin later said he was likely to be signed on April 26.

The details of the agreement remain relatively unknown, despite the recent reports before Bloomberg She indicated that the United States has responded its demands to pay its assistance in combating Ukraine against Russia from 300 billion dollars to $ 100 billion.

Michael Durgan of Fox News Digital and Associated Press contributed to this report.

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