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Ukrainian president earlier rejected US call for Kyiv to stop bombing oil refineries, saying Moscow must first end attacks on energy infrastructure

Donald Trump has announced an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, apparently without consulting Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said the deal to stop long-range attacks was “news to me”.

In a social media post, the US president claimed the two sides had reached an agreement. “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!” he wrote on Truth Social.

He offered no further details. Zelenskyy said he was surprised by the announcement but would agree to it if Vladimir Putin did the same. “If President Trump negotiated it with Putin – please tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready and we will accept it,” the Ukrainian president told the Axios website.

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[-] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 83 points 1 week ago

He offered no further details. Zelenskyy said he was surprised by the announcement but would agree to it if Vladimir Putin did the same. “If President Trump negotiated it with Putin – please tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready and we will accept it,” the Ukrainian president told the Axios website.

Zelenskyy shouldn't offer to accept a Trump-brokered deal so readily given that Trump has no incentive to negotiate with Ukraine's best interests in mind.

[-] ephrin@sh.itjust.works 103 points 1 week ago

It won’t matter, Putin won’t accept it anyways. This has happened many times before. Zelenskyy knows how to deal with Trump.

[-] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

He thinks he's rich and can just "grab 'em". He sees "dear leader" in the mirror. He's just a kindergarten teacher receiving every gold star, bragging about acing the tests he writes and grades himself.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

No, this is a good play. It's all bullshit anyway, but it buys Zelenskyy some goodwill if he plays along. It also makes Trump look stupid when he doesn't follow up. There's literally no downsides. The only downside would be if it's real and Putin actually follows it. Neither of these would happen though.

[-] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 11 points 1 week ago

The only downside would be if it's real and Putin actually follows it.

Not sure how this would be a downside, Ukraine would be happy to get an energy ceasefire going into the cold months

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Fair. Maybe it wouldn't be. Strategically, I think it'd be a negative for them though. They've had much more luck striking energy targets than Russia has. I can see the argument for it being a win no matter what too though.

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[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 week ago

He really did negotiate something with one party being completely uninvolved, didn't he?

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago

I doubt he talked with either

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He negotiated it in his head, and is probably surprised that his thinking doesn't equal reality.
The man is completely delusional, he actually thinks he can make things real with his will!
When he claims "only I can fix that", he actually believes it. Because he believes he is the only one with a mind strong enough to will it to happen.

This is a common phenomenon among for instance the very rich and highly positioned CEO's and wall street traders, although generally to a smaller degree, like thinking they can influence how dice fall.
It is also common within religion, like thinking praying actually works, which again turns to things like prosperity gospel, something Trump apparently also believes is true.
And finally it is also something that tend to happen to narcissists.

Trump is all these things, and has been delusional about having "powers" for decades, and his progressing dementia is making it worse.

It's the same mechanism that made Steve Jobs declined to have his cancer treated when it was discovered early enough to have a very high chance of success. He thought he could get rid of it himself somehow. When he finally realized he couldn't, it was too late.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 week ago

if I read this correctly, it seems that neither russia nor ukraine were involved

just pure halucinated bullshit

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

He's been hallucinating things since before AI made it cool. A true trendsetter. The best.

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Almost certainly not. This is to shift attention from Iran for gas prices increasing I suspect. He's going to say the reason prices have gone up is because Ukraine is bombing Russian refineries (it has technically had an effect), not because of his invasion of Iran. He's going to say he signed a deal with Russia, but prices aren't decreasing quickly because Ukraine broke the ceasefire that he made up.

Assuming I'm right, it's actually a smart move. It only needs to be made because of a bunch of really dumb moves, but this would be smart. Most people, let alone most Americans, don't have a firm grasp on any of this, so the truth doesn't really have much power.

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[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we call that lying, he does that a lot.

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 week ago

Please continue to bomb russian oil and seize/sink their tankers. I'll gladly pay increased fuel prices on my end.

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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

If you want Ukraine to stop bombing Russia there's actually a really easy fix that they could implement tomorrow.

Have Russia end their invasion.

[-] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

further proof that Trump just says shit

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 week ago

This is so that he can say Ukraine broke the ceasefire when Russia doesn’t observe the fake ceasefire and Ukraine keeps hitting Russian energy targets.

Trump is a Russian asset.

[-] CatGPT@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trumps lies aren’t worth reporting besides to say he’s lying again

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 points 1 week ago

hes scared because Zelensky targeted the yandex datacenters that were responsible for the troll farms, traffic from the bots has fall drastically as a result.

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[-] SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Dude is so sick in the head. Not a single serious person in the world is giving Trump an ounce of their mind. He's a powerless buffoon.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

(Copied from my reply to a comment, but it should be a top level comment.)

This is to shift attention from Iran for gas prices increasing I suspect. He's going to say the reason prices have gone up is because Ukraine is bombing Russian refineries (it has technically had an effect), not because of his invasion of Iran. He's going to say he signed a deal with Russia, but prices aren't decreasing quickly because Ukraine broke the ceasefire that he made up.

Assuming I'm right, it's actually a smart move. It only needs to be made because of a bunch of really dumb moves, but this would be smart. Most people, let alone most Americans, don't have a firm grasp on any of this, so the truth doesn't really have much power.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

It was another Trump lie. Russia just kept bombing.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

By partial, I'm sure he just means Ukraine.

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[-] BC_viper@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Fuck you trump. You don't announce shit.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Seems like a setup to make Ukraine look like the "bad guys" here.

Everyone "talking" peace but NOTHING changed.

America better go in there and "teach" Ukraine a lesson.

Any fair and accurate reporting going on?

Maybe, but I bet it's more that he's shitting himself over high fuel prices, caused by his illegal war with Iran, and has deluded himself in believing he can market manipulate his way out of Republicans getting destroyed in the midterms.

But unlike the stock market, oil supplies and wars don't magically respond anytime the moron in chief word vomits on the internet.

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

the world, both good and bad sides of it, already knows that every word from trumps mouth is a lie so it behooves us all to watch his actions and go by them rather than what he says

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

pedo announce what

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Dumbass just spouts on nonsense expecting everyone to go along with it!

[-] Pratai@piefed.ca 6 points 1 week ago

That putz just says whatever the fuck his geriatricly addled mush of a brain can think of regardless of reality checking his ass like a shopping list.

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 1 week ago

He is always on his own side - the same way that shooting yourself in the foot is.

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[-] kus@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

What does a partial cease fire even mean?

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Russia gets to keep attacking while Ukraine takes it, probably.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

It's like partial murder.

You didn't kill the person. Bleeding out after you severed their legs did.

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[-] rogsson@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Oh for fuck sake can someone just choke him with his diaper already

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Just rapist doing rapist things. His next statement will be that Ukraine doesn't want peace.

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[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

obvious lie number 1,748,747,495,494,381 told by Trump.

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