Ukraine agrees to 30-day ceasefire as US prepares to lift military aid restrictions

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Ukraine said it was ready to accept an immediate 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia, as the US announced it would immediately lift its restrictions on military aid and intelligence sharing after high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia.

Donald Trump said he now hoped Vladimir Putin would reciprocate. If the Russian president did, it would mark the first ceasefire in the more than three years since he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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“That’s a total ceasefire,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Tuesday after the talks. “Ukraine has agreed to it. And hopefully Russia will agree to it.”

US officials said they hoped the agreement would help lead to talks to end the war. Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is expected to travel to Moscow in the coming days to propose the ceasefire to Putin.

It is not clear if Putin is ready to accept the ceasefire in its current form.

Trump continued: “We’re going to meet with them [the Russians] later on today and tomorrow and hopefully we’ll be able to [work] out a deal. I think the ceasefire is very important. If we can get Russia to do it, that’ll be great. If we can’t we just keep going on and people are gonna get killed, lots of people.”
[...] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/ukraine-agrees-to-30-day-ceasefire-as-us-prepares-to-lift-military-aid-restrictions

Also ich glaub ehrlich gesagt nicht daran, aber hey.. wenn der Fis Untersuchungen zum Anzug-Skandal einleitet, die Union auf die Grünen zugeht und BSW in Karlsruhe auf Neuauszählung der Bundestagswahl klagt(möge Gott und beistehen), sind ja wirklich noch Wunder möglich.
Ich brauche definitiv noch mehr Scotch und Zigarren dieses Jahr; wird sicher noch lustig.

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