Even though the United States brokered the partial ceasefire, there’s still no mechanism for monitoring it.
The Kremlin has accused Ukraine of hitting energy targets in Russia’s Belgorod and occupied Сrimea since the start of the ceasefire and reports shooting down Ukrainian drones almost every night over Russia. Ukraine calls that Russian “lies.”
Russia has hit Ukraine’s energy facilities at least eight times since March 18, when Putin announced he gave an order not to strike energy infrastructure, Zelenskyy’s communications adviser Dmytro Lytvyn said in a post on X.
“And every night our air defense forces shoot down nearly a hundred attack drones — and many of those drones were likely targeting other energy facilities,” Lytvyn added.
But again, the issue is where Trump’s heart lies, and there is a growing conviction in Kyiv that he’s leaning toward Moscow.
“We want Americans to be on our side. And even if America today has decided to be in the middle, then the middle is the middle, not closer to the Kremlin. This is important,” Zelenskyy said.
But then he was asked which is closer, the relationship between him and Trump or Putin and Trump.
“Who is closer? I don’t know, it’s hard for me to say … I would say that I don’t have close [enough] relations with Trump to understand how close his relations with Putin are.”
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