Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a limited ceasefire against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during a telephone conversation with Donald Trump on Tuesday, but remained opposed to a constant peace plan promoted by the US president.

Reports from telephone communication showed no sign that Putin was willing to make concessions to his greatest goals for the end of the war, which are essentially at the end of Ukraine’s existence as an independent state, report analysts, while seeking to prevent it.

The Kremlin said Putin stressed that “Russia’s main condition to prevent the escalation of the conflict” and to make an agreement would be “complete interruption of foreign military support and exchange of information with Kiev”.

It is noted that last week, Kiev agreed to cease fire 30 days after pressure from Washington, which had suspended both military assistance and exchange of information.

However, it seems that the initial claim for immediate ceasefire, the Trump administration seems to retreat, accepting a more limited and gradual way to peace.
As Politico says in its analysis, Russia insists on the terms of ending the war that will lead to the end of Ukraine’s independence.

“Plan A is: to stop violence,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday, noting that the US government’s main goal is to secure a quick ceasefire before moving on to broader talks on an agreement that will terminate it.

But this is clearly not the plan of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as it turned out to be refused to agree on a full ceasefire for 30 days during his 90 -minute conversation with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Indeed, shortly after the conversation, Russia launched a drone attack on Kiev and other Ukrainian cities.

Offering the diplomatic minimum, the Russian leader said he would delay attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 30 days, a self -serving concession, as this will protect the Russian energy system from Ukrainian hits, which have just increased the dramatically increasing seeds of 1,000 kilometers.

Overall, Trump’s team, with the various special envoys, members of his family and presidential friends, seems to want more to converge with Russia on broader geopolitical issues, rather than really pushing Putin for Ukraine, Politico notes.

The Kremlin’s announcement after the conversation focused on the idea of ​​a redefinition of Washington-Moscow relationships on issues ranging from economic cooperation to ice hockey, and it was poor in anything that could look like a meaningful peace deal for Ukrainians.

As an indication that a real overthrow is far away, Russia insists on its maximum demands, to end military assistance and exchange of information to Kiev, while wishing to resolve the “main causes” of the war, a phrase that the Kremlin uses to exterminate its democracy and the democracy.

Compromise with Volodya

Trump’s team shows that he is willing to follow Putin as he deliberately confuses the stages of negotiations, changing the order either to ensure that any final agreement will certainly be in favor of Russia or to avoid accepting a complete ceasefire completely.

The Russian leader and his senior associates have repeatedly identified their red lines to reach a peace deal in recent weeks, setting conditions that will, in essence, dismantle the state of Ukraine. They want guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO, that it will remain geopolitical neutral and unable to determine its own future, with serious arms restrictions. Moscow also wants Crimea and the four eastern regions that are seeking to be recognized internationally as part of the Russian Federation. And has excluded the development of European troops to survive any peace agreement to be achieved.

In summary, Russia responds with an absolute “no” to the security guarantees that Ukraine wants to protect it from future attacks by Putin.

Instead of waiting for the official peace talks, the Kremlin is trying to force the acceptance of its red lines now, keeping the proposal for a ceasefire as a negotiating paper without formally rejecting it, a move that would risk Trump’s wrath. Trump has threatened with more sanctions against Moscow if Putin is not committed to a peacekeeping agreement, but, at least for now, allows the Russian president to escape and set the pace.

A well -known plan

Watching the situation, some commentators argue that Putin is experiencing, playing with time and failing to make a decision. However, it can also be said that it simply uses a plan it has implemented in the past. As he did with US negotiators for Syria, he forces his interlocutors to “drown” in a series of demands, trying to exhaust them and either achieve his main goals or lead everything to an endless back.

In changing the process of negotiations, Putin has help from Trump’s team.

Trump and his special envoy, Steven Whitkov, have already discussed the terms of the agreement in an effort to secure the ceasefire, while Trump and Putin have talked about “territories”, “power plants” and “sharing of some assets” before any “assets”.

Before talking to Putin this week, Trump boasted on the social networking platform Truth Social that “many elements of a final agreement have been agreed”.

This is new to Ukraine. The fact that Trump is supposed to agree on Putin’s terms on the territories and assets of Ukraine forces Kiev or to accept the agreement that the two leaders have agreed privately, or to reject the prefabricated agreement.

If Ukraine does not agree on an accomplished event, Putin may simply blame Kiev of any failure in the negotiations, which would strengthen Trump’s characterization that Ukraine President Volodimir Zelnsky is the evil of the case.

Trump’s team has already shown her contempt for Zelenski. This was publicly evident during the fierce conflict at the Oval Office in February. It has also become obvious backstage, with the secret talks between members of Trump’s escort and Zelenski’s internal political opponents, revealed by Politico earlier this month.

These talks were part of an American attempt to gather support for early elections, in which they are convinced that Zelenski will lose, despite the results of the opposite polls. According to three Ukrainian MPs and a Republican Specialist in Foreign Policy, Trump’s son Don Junior, his bridegroom, Jared Kounsner, the controversial presenter of conservative television broadcasting, participated in the backdrop.

“They see Zelenski as an obstacle,” said Republican foreign policy expert. “How to undermine Zelenski and make him more obedient? Well, you are involved in his political opponents and shows him that the United States has other Ukrainian partners and other options. “

“But I think much of Trump’s world, or at least some of them, are deliberately believing that they can order someone in Ukraine as their partner and make him electoral in the short or medium term, whenever the elections are held,” he adds. “It is a lack of understanding of Ukraine.”

Similarly, there may be some illusion about what Putin is seeking, as he tries to impose the general terms of a final agreement before the weapons are silent – conditions that, if partially accepted, will achieve his main strategic goal: the submission of Ukraine and its maintenance.

“Putin seems to have partially succeeded in keeping a hostage cessation proposal as part of his efforts to get in advance from US President Donald Trump in negotiations for the end of the war,” the Institute notes.

“Putin is trying to change the series of talks to push Trump to make concessions on issues that are not included in the temporary ceasefire between the US and Ukraine, but is part of Russia’s war targets,” Think Tank warned.