'Shooting on the front lines will continue' - analysts on Trump's call with Putin

Record ID: 1984220

  • Title: 'Shooting on the front lines will continue' - analysts on Trump's call with Putin
  • Date: 18th March 2025
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES (MARCH 18, 2025) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, FELLOW FOR EUROPE, LIANA FIX, SAYING: “It's unusual for two world leaders to engage so early on in a negotiation process about ceasefires. We have seen this once. We've seen that in 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine for the first time, the German chancellor, Angela Merke
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  • Keywords: NATO Putin Russia Trump Ukraine Zelenskiy call ceasefire concessions deal minerals peace war
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  • Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,North America,Government/Politics
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  • Story Text: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Ukraine war on Tuesday (March 18) in a phone call which Washington hoped would convince Moscow to accept a 30-day ceasefire and move towards a permanent peace deal.
    Both sides said the talks, which began at 10 a.m. ET (1400 GMT), had later concluded.
    "The disappointing part is that there's no 30 day ceasefire," said Mark Cancian, a retired marine colonel and Senior Advisor, Defense and Security Department, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
    The Council on Foreign Relations' Liana Fix said it was "unusual" for world leaders to engage so early on in a negotiation process. "There doesn't seem to be enough preparation on just the logistical and technical level to agree on anything," she said.
    Ukraine has already agreed to the U.S.-proposed ceasefire in Europe's biggest conflict since World War Two, in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed or wounded, millions have been displaced and towns have been reduced to rubble.
    Putin, whose forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, said last week he supported in principle Washington's proposal for a truce but that his forces would fight on until several crucial conditions were worked out.
    Trump hopes also to secure progress towards a longer-term peace plan, which he has hinted could include territorial concessions by Kyiv and control of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
    "This peace process is going to take a long time," Cancian said.
    (Production: Christine Kiernan, Tom Rowe)
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