President Donald Trump is “hopeful” Russia and Ukraine can make a deal this week after a temporary Easter ceasefire between the two countries ended.
“Hopefully Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social.
“Both will then start to do big business with the United States of America, which is thriving, and make a fortune!”
The war between the two countries has raged for more than three years and has cost the lives of tens of thousands of people on both sides.
PUTIN ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY EASTER CEASEFIRE IN UKRAINE WAR
President Trump says the U.S. should control Ukraine’s nuclear power plants in a security move as ceasefire negotiations commence. (Getty Images used to create Fox News Image)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of breaking their ceasefire agreement and said “the Russian army has violated Putin’s ceasefire more than two thousand times.”
“The total number of violations by the Russian army of Russia’s own ceasefire promise throughout the day reached 2,935. The highest number of shellings and assaults occurred in the Pokrovsk,” Zelenskyy wrote.
“The Russian promise of complete silence did not spread in the Kursk direction either. In total, there were 96 Russian assaults on the front, 1,882 shelling of our positions, and in particular 812 with heavy weapons, Russian FPV drones were used more than 950 times.” — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy added that Ukraine will remain a mirror-image and “will respond to silence with silence our strikes in defense of Russian strikes.”
“Actions are always more eloquent than words,” Zelenskyy said.
PUTIN CONSCRIPTS 160K MEN AS RUSSIA EYES UKRAINE OFFENSIVE
Local residents walk among the debris near a damaged house, a day after a Russian strike on a suburb of Odesa, southern Ukraine, on March 7, 2025. (OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP via Getty Images)
Putin ordered his forces to stop all military activity…
