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FILE PHOTO: Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky © Global Look Press / Kirill Chubotin.

The Ukrainian leader has hailed a US-advocated temporary truce initiative as a diplomatic “victory” for Kiev.

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that Kiev has received widespread applause from its Western backers over its handling of the recent talks with the US in Saudi Arabia. The diplomatic success, he stated, puts Russia in a difficult situation that could be hard to “wiggle out of.”

During a meeting in Jeddah on Tuesday, the Ukrainian delegation agreed to a US-proposed 30-day ceasefire.

“Everyone congratulated Ukraine on a real victory in Jeddah, the victory of diplomacy,” Zelensky stated on Saturday, without specifying who exactly reached out to Kiev. “Everyone believes that this is a serious progress,” he claimed.

At the time of the meeting, the Ukrainian military was facing a sustained Russian offensive along the entire front line, while Kiev’s troops suffered a major defeat in Russia’s Kursk Region. A surprise attack allowed the Russian military to reclaim hundreds of square kilometers of territory within days and liberate Sudzha, the largest town in the area previously occupied by Ukrainian forces.

The head of the Russian General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, reported on Wednesday that the Ukrainian troops in the area were largely “isolated” or “encircled.” On Friday, US President Donald Trump called on Moscow to spare the lives of the “thousands” of Ukrainian soldiers trapped in the area. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin has guaranteed merciful treatment to the surrounded fighters if they surrender.

The Ukrainian General Staff swiftly branded all the reports about an encirclement a “manipulation” by Russia. Talking to journalists on Saturday, Zelensky denied that the Ukrainian troops had been surrounded in the Kursk Region.

The Ukrainian leader also demanded “unconditional” agreement from Moscow to the US-backed ceasefire proposal. “If Ukraine takes such a step, it has to be unconditional,” he stated.

Putin welcomed the US ceasefire initiative by calling it “the right idea” and one that Moscow “certainly supports.” However, he maintained that certain issues, including the fate of the Ukrainian troops in Kursk Region, as well as mechanisms for monitoring the ceasefire, need to be addressed before any agreement could be reached.

France and the UK have also demanded that Russia agree to an unconditional temporary truce, which prompted a sharp rebuke from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who said the UK can stick such ideas back where they came from.

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  1. ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Threatens Putin – Includes NZ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bByuV42BIuY
    I Am not going to go on about the implications of what is happening in Ukraine and the likely ramifications and consequences of what will transpire with NZ’s involvement
    This is pure insanity
    Ukraine is the most corrupt country in the world
    NZ should not become anymore involved and should never have become involved
    Ukraine does not have a hope in hell of winning but in expanding the war
    This is a big and tragic mistake
    All I would say is have a good supply of body bags on hand because if Kiwi’s venture unnecessarily into this war of attrition operating on hopium and delusion to the reality there will be dire disastrous fallout

    • It will prove that this Uni-Party ‘Government’ is totally under J3wi$h, Talmudic Zionist control.
      After all, former PM and disruptive International Bankster John Key is…Jewish!
      IF this were to happen with sending Kiwi kids to die in a Zionist-led extermination of Gentiles, Goyim and Orthodox Christians, it would be interesting to see IF the NZ population would then over-throw the Uni-Party factions that would have allowed for this to happen.

      • Yes we found this out during covid
        When all Western Countries went into isolation in lockstep for a virus that hadn’t been identified
        Which was created on a computer
        The definition of isolated changed to fit the official narrative
        Backed up by the fake numbers provided with fake PCR Tests amplified up
        All Past Present and Future events pertain to Genesis 3:15
        The Jews want to kill of the White race who they are masquerading as
        And we want them gone

    • Europe is on the brink of financial collapse.
      There are forces at work wanting war for different reasons.
      1 . a country at war does not have to meet its financial obligation ( default)
      2. for the usual usury lenders, looting europe at war will only be financially beneficial.
      The question is, how will the population exposed now to revolting lies and war propaganda is going to react.

  2. I totally agree with Kapo, frightening to think that idiots like starmer are in control of Europe, you have to wonder about another agenda. Anyone remember the Cuban missile crisis, Nato have been poking the bear for years.

  3. Putin must be looking on in bemusement at these at these fourth rate politicians.When all else fails, childish comments and tantrum’s, are what remains.

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