{"id":21037,"date":"2025-04-26T03:32:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/putin-keeps-pummeling-ukraine-convinced-trump-is-on-his-side\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T03:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:32:45","slug":"putin-keeps-pummeling-ukraine-convinced-trump-is-on-his-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/putin-keeps-pummeling-ukraine-convinced-trump-is-on-his-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Keeps Pummeling Ukraine, Convinced Trump Is on His Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Vladimir V. Putin is, brutally, walking a tightrope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Russian leader appears eager to keep up talks with President Trump as Moscow brims with optimism that energy deals, direct flights and the lifting of sanctions <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-rubio-putin-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">could all be in the offing<\/a>. After Mr. Putin met the White House envoy Steve Witkoff for the fourth time in three months on Friday, the Kremlin said the \u201cproductive Russian-American dialogue\u201d would continue \u201cin the most active mode.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Putin has cast aside Mr. Trump\u2019s calls for a quick peace in Ukraine, with the ferocity of Russia\u2019s airstrikes on civilian targets seemingly increasing. Mr. Putin openly admitted this week that Russia had bombed a restaurant because, he claimed, people \u201cdeserving the most serious punishment\u201d were \u201cdrinking vodka\u201d there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The result has been weeks of brinkmanship with Mr. Trump, as the American president threatens to walk away from negotiations while Mr. Putin keeps testing his patience with continued attacks. The Kremlin is exuding calm confidence, even after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/24\/us\/politics\/russia-trump-putin-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Trump posted <\/a>on Thursday <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/24\/us\/politics\/russia-trump-putin-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">on social media, \u201cVladimir, STOP!\u201d<\/a> in response to Russia\u2019s deadliest missile attack on Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, in nearly a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, Mr. Putin and two of his top aides met for three hours at the Kremlin with Mr. Witkoff, who was shown in videos released by the Kremlin sitting across from them accompanied only by a translator. Afterward, there was little indication of a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe had, I hear, a pretty good meeting,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Rome for the pope\u2019s funeral, noting that Mr. Witkoff yet to brief him directly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of Mr. Putin\u2019s aides in the meeting, Yuri Ushakov, said the discussion had helped \u201cbring the positions of Russia and the United States closer together, not just on Ukraine but also on several other international issues.\u201d He said the group discussed \u201cthe possibility of renewing direct negotiations\u201d between Russia and Ukraine, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-putin-zelensky.html\" title=\"\">a notion that both countries raised publicly earlier this week<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The other Putin aide at the meeting, Kirill Dmitriev, released his own statement saying it was symbolic that Mr. Witkoff\u2019s visit came on the 80th anniversary of the first meeting of Soviet and American troops during World War II. The meeting, Mr. Dmitriev said, stood for, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kadmitriev\/status\/1915785274065305657\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cshared hope for postwar peace.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There was no immediate comment from American officials about the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Overnight, before the meeting, Russia continued its airstrikes. The Ukrainian authorities said on Friday that a large-scale drone attack had killed three people, including a child, in the eastern city of Pavlohrad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Greeting Mr. Witkoff at the Kremlin a few hours later, Mr. Putin, speaking in English, responded to Mr. Witkoff\u2019s \u201cHow are you, Mr. President?\u201d with, \u201cFine, just fine, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Russia, experts and people close to the Kremlin say that Mr. Putin\u2019s calculus is simple: Until now, the Russian president has been convinced that he has more to gain by keeping up the pressure on the battlefield than by accepting the deal Mr. Trump appears to be offering. Even agreeing to a temporary cease-fire, Mr. Putin believes, would mean surrendering so much negotiating leverage that it would only make sense to do so after major concessions from Ukraine and the West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time, Mr. Putin \u2014 a leader who likes to keep his options open and hedge his bets \u2014 doesn\u2019t want to foreclose the possibility of a war-ending settlement. And Mr. Trump, given his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/08\/us\/politics\/trump-putin-russia.html\" title=\"\">obvious sympathy for Mr. Putin<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-zelensky-us-ukraine-russia.html\" title=\"\">distaste for President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> of Ukraine, has given the Russian leader plenty of reason to think he has room left to maneuver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFor him, it is still important to leave a window of opportunity open, but not to force the process,\u201d Grigorii Golosov, a professor of political science at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin believes, Professor Golosov added, that as long as he has the battlefield advantage, \u201cHe can gain benefits not only in terms of seizing territory, but also in terms of undermining Ukraine\u2019s defense capability and demoralizing the Ukrainian population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Europe and in the United States, the Trump administration was widely criticized for outlining a potential <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/23\/world\/europe\/ukraine-cease-fire-talks-london.html\" title=\"\">peace deal that seemed heavily skewed toward Russia<\/a>. Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance expressed a readiness both to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/24\/us\/politics\/trump-crimea-peace-agreement.html\" title=\"\">recognize Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea<\/a> and to freeze the current front line, a de facto acceptance of Russia\u2019s occupation of nearly one-fifth of Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump said on Thursday that Mr. Putin would be making concessions simply by \u201cstopping taking the whole country\u201d \u2014 a goal that analysts don\u2019t believe Russia has any chance of accomplishing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The current deal being floated by the Trump administration would fall well short of Mr. Putin\u2019s stated war aims. The concessions offered by Trump administration officials do not provide for Russian control of all of the Ukrainian land that Mr. Putin has claimed to be part of Russia, nor do they limit the size of Ukraine\u2019s army, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/06\/15\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-deal.html\" title=\"\">something that Mr. Putin has demanded<\/a> since the early weeks of the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Mr. Trump said in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7280114\/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Time interview<\/a> published Friday that he didn\u2019t think Ukraine would \u201cever be able to join NATO,\u201d Mr. Putin\u2019s designs on a renewed Russian sphere of influence in Eastern Europe go much further than blocking Ukraine\u2019s membership in the alliance. Weeks before he invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Mr. Putin called on NATO to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/17\/world\/europe\/russia-nato-security-deal.html\" title=\"\">halt all further expansion eastward<\/a> and to withdraw military infrastructure placed in Eastern European states after 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As if to make his point, Mr. Putin\u2019s military in recent weeks has launched fierce strikes on Ukrainian cities. Mr. Putin <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/76736\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">acknowledged on Monday<\/a> that Russia had struck civilian targets because, he claimed, they were being used by Ukrainian soldiers and \u201cnationalists,\u201d as well as by their \u201cinternational curators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey\u2019re holding gatherings, conferences, meetings in a restaurant, celebrating something, drinking vodka,\u201d Mr. Putin said, an apparent reference to a Russian missile strike on a restaurant in central Ukraine on April 4 that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/04\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-strike-zelensky-hometown.html\" title=\"\">killed nine children<\/a>. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/09\/world\/europe\/ukraine-kryvyi-ri-attack.html\" title=\"\">Security footage showed<\/a> that the restaurant had been filled with women attending a beauty industry event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many in Russia\u2019s elite insist that, despite the brutality of the fighting, Mr. Putin could still make a deal by relinquishing some of his most far-reaching demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A prominent Moscow newspaper editor, Konstantin Remchukov, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ng.ru\/politics\/2025-04-20\/1_9238_russia.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published a column<\/a> on April 20 arguing, for example, that the fine print of Mr. Putin\u2019s annexation of four Ukrainian regions in the fall of 2022 gave him the wiggle room to accept an armistice that would freeze the fighting at the current front lines. Mr. Remchukov headed the 2018 election campaign of Moscow\u2019s mayor, a close ally of Mr. Putin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reason Mr. Putin is continuing to fight, Mr. Remchukov wrote, is that he wants to expel Ukrainian forces completely from the Russian border region of Kursk, a goal that Russia\u2019s top military commander said last week was 99.5 percent accomplished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAs soon as the last half percent is liberated, the troops can stop where the news finds them,\u201d Mr. Remchukov wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a phone interview, Mr. Remchukov said that Mr. Putin should be ready to reach a Ukraine deal because doing so would unlock the vast benefits of cooperating with Mr. Trump, including sanctions relief, the return of frozen Russian assets, renewed direct flights to the West and joint energy projects in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t Putin stop fighting,\u201d Mr. Remchukov asked, \u201cif the foreign policy preconditions for doing so have been created in the form of the new president of the United States?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/25\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-trump.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir V. 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