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With Ukraine signing US proposals for a 30 -day ceasefire, the Kremlin has now decided to put pressure on whether it will also accept President Donald Trump’s plan to stop the Ukraine war, although temporarily temporarily.
Russian officials have been referring to “contacts” with US representatives in the next few days, but have not said whether the terms of the ceasefire, as was presented in the US Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, would be acceptable.
For Moscow, this is a moment of truth and if it is serious about peace, strange compromises may be needed.
The Kremlin has long claimed to be open to negotiations to end the conflict, insisting that it has to achieve the goals of its precision war, such as gaining control over all the adjoining areas of Ukraine.
Just last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin, a strong Kremlin man launched this brutal war three years ago, pledged a group of tearing widows and a group of dead Russian soldiers that Moscow never believed.
The supporters of the war, Russian hardliners, sometimes encourage the Kremlin, can see the ceasefire as a fraud.
But any climb may be inevitable.
Even if Russian negotiators can impose their terms on ceasefire.
It can also be a decisive intersection in Putin’s strange warm relationship with Trump, which, in exchange for recent privileges and praise, can now expect the Kremlin leader to play the ball.
In fact, “the ball is now in their court,” it is exactly what US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said about the Russians after talking to Ukrainian officials in Jeddah.
A few days ago, Trump claimed that the Russians had “all cards”. Now, whether deliberately or not, he must have called Putin’s bluff.
