{"id":258679,"date":"2025-03-13T22:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T22:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/trump-sees-good-signals-on-russia-ukraine-cease-fire-zelensky-does-not\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T22:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T22:55:05","slug":"trump-sees-good-signals-on-russia-ukraine-cease-fire-zelensky-does-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/trump-sees-good-signals-on-russia-ukraine-cease-fire-zelensky-does-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Sees \u2018Good Signals\u2019 on Russia-Ukraine Cease-Fire. Zelensky Does Not."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13dc-prexy-kglj\/13dc-prexy-kglj-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Trump Sees \u2018Good Signals\u2019 on Russia-Ukraine Cease-Fire. Zelensky Does Not.\" title=\"Trump Sees \u2018Good Signals\u2019 on Russia-Ukraine Cease-Fire. Zelensky Does Not.\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump said Thursday he saw \u201cgood signals\u201d toward finalizing a 30-day cease-fire agreement between Russia and Ukraine, as U.S. officials visiting Moscow were expected to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The remarks, delivered in the Oval Office while meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, came as Mr. Putin made clear he was in no hurry for a cease-fire, laying out numerous conditions before he could agree to a truce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean anything until we hear what the final outcome is, but they have very serious discussions going on right now with President Putin and others, and hopefully they all want to end this nightmare,\u201d Mr. Trump said of the meetings his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, was having in Russia. \u201cIt\u2019s a nightmare. It\u2019s a horrible thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump said he hoped to speak to Mr. Putin soon. He also said the U.S. had discussed with Ukraine possible concessions as part of a peace agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been discussing with Ukraine land and pieces of land that would be kept and lost, and all of the other elements of a final agreement,\u201d Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added: \u201cA lot of the details of a final agreement have actually been discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine struck a pessimistic tone in his evening address to Ukrainians on Thursday. Mr. Putin\u2019s response to the cease-fire proposal, he said, was \u201cvery predictable.\u201d Mr. Putin, he said, set so many preconditions \u201cthat nothing will work out at all, or that it will not work out for as long as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite Mr. Trump\u2019s years of complaints about NATO, an organization from which he has repeatedly threatened to withdraw, the meeting with Mr. Rutte, a former Dutch prime minister, proceeded amicably as the two leaders discussed areas of cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump commended Mr. Rutte for \u201cdoing a fantastic job\u201d while Mr. Rutte heaped praise on Mr. Trump, crediting him with revitalizing the organization by pushing countries to contribute more military spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI really want to work together with you in the run-up to The Hague summit to make sure that we will have a NATO which is really reinvigorated under your leadership, and we are getting there,\u201d Mr. Rutte said, referencing this summer\u2019s meeting in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many American presidents have complained that other European allies do not spend enough on defense, relying instead on American protection, but Mr. Trump has escalated the rhetoric to a new level, suggesting the U.S. may not fulfill its mutual defense commitment for countries that have not contributed enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s more conciliatory approach to Russia and his sweeping tariffs on the European Union have also divided the alliance and its member states, some of which are starting to explore a future that does not depend so heavily on the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Rutte, seeking to avoid the kind of confrontation that blew up <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-zelensky-us-ukraine-russia.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Trump\u2019s meeting with Mr. Zelensky in early March<\/a>, complimented the U.S. president and tried to steer away from conflict \u2014 at least in front of news cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Mr. Trump was asked about his efforts to annex Greenland \u2014 a territory controlled by Denmark, a NATO member \u2014 the president noted that Mr. Rutte \u201ccould be instrumental\u201d in making that happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have to do it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe really need it for national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Rutte deflected the question of the United States taking Greenland, saying he did not want to \u201cdrag NATO into that.\u201d Instead, he pivoted to agreeing with Mr. Trump that Russia and China posed threats to the Arctic region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Marc Santora<!-- --> in Kyiv and <!-- -->Luke Broadwater<!-- --> in Washington contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-rutte-zelensky-ukraine-ceasefire.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said Thursday he saw \u201cgood signals\u201d toward finalizing a 30-day cease-fire agreement between Russia and Ukraine, as U.S. officials visiting Moscow were expected to meet with President Vladimir V. 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The remarks, delivered in the Oval Office while meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, came as Mr. Putin made clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/13\/multimedia\/13dc-prexy-kglj\/13dc-prexy-kglj-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7275,163575,14314,1551,209,23147,4944,837,15136,52,128437,163486,128440,34139,168654,8774],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258681,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258679\/revisions\/258681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}