Ukraine ‘Expressed Readiness’ to Accept Proposal for 30 Day Ceasefire
America “will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine.”
Ukraine reportedly agreed to a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, according to Barak Ravid with Axios.
Ravid also said America “agreed to lift suspension on intelligence sharing with Ukraine and resume weapon shipments.”
Ukrainian officials have gathered with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to negotiate an end to the war with Russia.
The two sides met for over eight hours.
CBS News published the joint statement from America and Ukraine:
“Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation,” the U.S. and Ukraine said in a joint statement released by the State Department. “The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace.”
The statement said the U.S. “will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine.”
“We’ll take this offer now to the Russians,” said Rubio. “We hope the Russians will reciprocate.”
Here’s the full statement:
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Considering Ukraine’s threats over StarLink and the attack on X which is reported to be from Ukraine, they deserve to be punished in a meaningful way.
Think long and hard about this:
Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly a “traitor” in a post on X after Kelly posted that he had visited Ukraine over the weekend.
Kelly, in a thread on X Sunday night, posted photos of his visit to Ukraine and wrote, “Everyone wants this war to end, but any agreement has to protect Ukraine’s security and can’t be a giveaway to Putin.”
In a reply to the thread, Musk responded, “You are a traitor.”
Think long and hard about this. If you are an American and support an American ally in the fight against globalist communist Russia, then you are a “traitor” according to Musk. The right hand man of Donald Trump has said that if anyone wants to protect our allies against global Communism, then they are a traitor. Ronald Reagan would be turning over in his grave. Our government is now on the side of the Communists. God help us.
Trump and his administration are now firmly supporting a revival of the Soviet Union and global Communism. Trump doesn’t want the war to end. He wants communist Russia to win the war. The 3 main billionaire autocrats in the world are Trump, Putin, and China’s Xi. They want to divide the world’s spoils between them.
Jesus Christ, are you a wet limp dishrag.
You need to take a break from the Internet, dude.
Or just take a long walk off a short plank.
Whichever, dude. Just don’t do any of it here.
Oh… and quit upvoting yourself. It smacks of even more estrogen than usual.
Man on internet screams like a snow flake for someone else to get of the internet. Cool story bro, maybe respond with substance next time
You sound bitter about this because it’s not Democrats involved in it. You don’t care about the money just that your party isn’t going to stay relevant without the government spigot turned on. Your concern for Ukraine is admirable. Donate your own money or go over to Ukraine and be a trigger puller for them. Stop asking everyone else to join your false rage.
There is no “globalist communist Russia” nor is Ukraine an ally.
Kelly doesn’t realize that Ukraine will not be able to keep all of their territory. Russia will not agree to any deal with prewar borders or an unconditional surrender. There needs to be some give and take by both sides here. By refusing to acknowledge that Ukraine has to give something up, Kelly is stating that he wants to keep the war going. Between that and many of the other things Kelly has said like limiting our right to keep and bear arms it’s reasonable to call him a seditionist at least, and not the good kind of sedition like our Founding Fathers committed.
Also, Russia hasn’t been communist since 1991, maybe even earlier depending on how “real communism” you want to define it.
Russia isn’t “communist,” dipshit. It’s a dictatorship, but it hasn’t been communist for decades, and the USSR is long gone. Words mean things, as much as you Democrats want to pretend otherwise.
Russia also isn’t “globalist.” Do you know the definition of ANY words? Or do you just assign meaning to fit your agenda? Watching a Democrat puppet like you wearing a skinsuit of Joe McCarthy is laughable.
Why was the Senator in Ukraine interfering in the negotiations between Trump and Zelensky? He had zero reason to be there. Reagan invited Gorbachev to his ranch after both were out of office. Even though on opposite ends of the table they also had respect for each other. You get no concessions from someone you constantly insult in the news. You actually sound bitter about the possibility that Trump could broker a peace deal instead of allowing perpetual war so the Military Industrial Complex can keep cashing taxpayers checks.
You are so gullible
Somehow, I doubt the Russians will accept until they have surrounded the Ukrainians in Kursk. But that may happen soon.
Unlikely the Russians would be able to siege Kursk. They have neither the manpower or the functional equipment.
See my comments on implied threats below.
This is a non-starter for Russia.
The 30 days would allow the West advantage of preparing for war, without any threat of attacks.
In my opinion, Russia will be outraged by this disingenuous offer.
Russia will continue with the taking of more and more land.
How’s about we hang on and see what Russia’s response is before we decide what their response will be? 🤔
And it doesn’t help Russia the same way? They can use it just as well.
What makes you think the offer is disingenuous? It seems rather plain on it’s face: FAFO.
True, it carries an implied threat to Russia. That’s not disingenuous. That’s having the big stick and being ready to say “you don’t want to find out what happens when Ukraine gets a green light to actually go on an offensive with modern weaponry. Say “nuclear weapons” again, and we’ll take yours away from you.”
Threaten Russia with a disarming nuclear strike? You must be delusional.
Who said ANYTHING about a “disarming nuclear strike?” We can take out ALL of their silos, mobile launchers AND subs with entirely conventional weapons. The math is NOT that difficult.
Between the Rapid Dragon Cruise Missile Deployment system, the AGM-158 JASSM Cruise Missile, AEGIS in Poland, the fleet-borne AEGIS systems, basic intel already gathered and a handful of ground systems in various countries, the US could take out the ENTIRE command-and-control structure, ALL of the ICBM missile silos, mobile launchers, and likely the entire remaining functional Russian air force in a matter of (checks math) just under 1 hour.
All it would take is a properly coordinated strike. With the equipment developed and currently at US Military disposal, we don’t even half to enter their AIRSPACE with anything manned until it’s all over. We can reach out and touch them from the BORDER of Poland, Ukraine, and Finland.
Starting to get hard for the left to ignore the coming ceasefire eh.
Given Barry, peace be upon him, received a Nobel gong for nothing more than some meaningless pretty words can you imagine the mass suicides in the left when OMB gets one for bringing peace to Europe 😂😂
Trump can broker a permanent end to either the war in Ukraine or the war in Gaza, maybe both and they’ll twist themselves every way possible not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Russia obviously isn’t going to agree to any ceasefire when they’re so close to prevailing in Kursk. With no reliable intelligence to gauge the strength of the Russia forces (western media like the NYTs has been printing ‘Russia on the verge of collapse’ literally since the 1st week of the war), it’s really hard to say how Russia will respond after they’ve regained control of their own territory.
Russia’s economy isn’t great ATM. But, it was appreciably worse in 2009 and 2013 and yet they managed to carry-on. Also, they’ve been buoyed by the growing strength of BRICs. China is unconcerned with US sanctions and as a result, they’ve found a customer in Russia where they can dump their tech, like electronics and cars they can’t sell to North American and European markets. Ultimately, no one – not even Trump – has any carrot or stick that is going to make Putin walk away. So long as he remains popular at home – and it seems that his popularity has never been higher – a peaceful, negotiated resolution to this war is unlikely, unfortunately.
See my comment below. What makes you think we have “no reliable intelligence” on Russian force strength? The US Military knows exactly how strong the Russian forces are on the battlefield (which is quite weak, all things considered). Russians are now on HORSEBACK because they have so few vehicles for crying out loud.
The Russisns are not close to prevailing in Kursk. To think otherwise is to take Russian propaganda at face value, while ignoring the enormous casualty rate they are experiencing. You can only use meat grinder tactics for so long before your own Military gets tired of using the dead bodies of their comrades as a berm to stop incoming fire.
Have you seen that intelligence? I sure haven’t. Instead – like everyone else – I’m forced to rely on ‘reporting’ from hugely unreliable US and European news agencies. I have no idea what’s really going on in Russia, which is true for everyone except a few people inside of government. To take Russia or pro-Ukrainian Western media’s propaganda at face value is a fool’s errand.
As I said, I do know that western media has ‘reported’ on the ‘imminent’ collapse of Russia’s economy literally since the first week of the war. Thus far, Russia’s economy has proven to be remarkably resilient if also damaged by the western sanctions. If their intelligence on the state of the Russian economy is questionable – and it clearly is – then any other information they’re sharing about the tactical situation in the theater of combat is equally questionable.
We – the public – have no real idea what’s going on.
What planet are YOU living on? No, I have NOT seen that intelligence, and I wouldn’t imagine that we, the public, would know that intelligence EVER. I’m not taking ANYBODY’S propaganda at face value (US or RUSSIAN or EUROPEAN or anybody else). What I DO know is United States information gathering having had several members of my extended family in various military service branches, and several friends that were directly recruited into military intel. I don’t have to know the INFO itself personally, in order to know that the US Government and Military DO know what the Russian force strength actually IS.
Beyond that, I’m taking the information I’m getting from battlefield reports from both sides AND neutral parties, comparing notes, and then using my BRAIN to say, “Huh. Russia seems to be losing material and men” in VAST quantities. It’s very hard to hide when you’re losing, on average 119 pieces of military equipment per day, and taking 793 casualties daily.
Every time they boast about taking out a “Patriot System,” that system seems to still be there stopping their missiles from getting through to the important targets. They boast about their “hypersonic” missiles, that keep getting swatted out of the sky.
I don’t care about Russia’s ECONOMY. I care about their military battlefield readiness, which has been SEVERELY degraded. I don’t have to see what the value of a Ruble is in order to see that the Russian Military Command-and-Control structure badly miscalculated using meat-grinder tactics thinking this would be over fast, and has never modified that approach. That has effectively reasonably stalled into a trench-warfare situation. Yes, the Russians are making (slow) progress into Ukraine. At the rate they’re burning soldiers, they’re GOING to run out of people, sooner rather than later.
In WWII, about a million civilians starved during the three year siege of Leningrad. It made no difference, Russia eventually broke the siege. And went on to march into Berlin,
I don’t think the Russians really care what the cost is.
The last paragraph is interesting. Isn’t access to Ukraine’s mineral deposits, esp. rare earths, what we wanted? And isn’t access to American $$s for rebuilding what Ukraine wanted? And isn’t a halt to the bleeding of their young men on the battle field what Russia wanted?
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What my esteemed colleagues (minus the leftist troll JR) above seem to be missing when thinking thst Russia will never agree to this 30-day ceasefire is the implied theat.
To Zelensky, the implied, and then delivered on, threat was ” If you don’t want to negotiate peace, we (the US) are not going to help you. We’re not your thumb on the scale to get a “better deal” or all of your land. When Zelensky decided to be petulant about it, he was shown exactly how weak his position is.
To Putin, the implied threat is exactly the opposite: “If you don’t want to negotiate peace, that’s your business. We (the US) will arm Ukraine yo the teeth with our most advanced military equipment, and stop telling them to only play defense. Also, we can destroy ALL of your ICBMs in their silos before they clear the silo, and shoot anything out of the sky that does clear the deck.we know, are shadowing, and can sink at will every one of your first strike submarines. You’ve already seen how Poland is arming up. Imagine Poland AND Ukraine with sufficient firepower to topple you without leaving their own borders.” Ukraine will come to the table as an equal negotiating party for peace. Putin KNOWS better than to be petulant or throw a tantrum in public, because for all the Russian Federation bluster about superior weaponry, Putin DOES understand his weak points, He’ll say yes out of self interest.
Give it a couple of days to percolate through the diplomatic channels. My guess is there’s a ceasefire by Saturday.
Sure: threaten to start WW 3 if Russia won’t tuck its tail and agree to a ceasefire so that Ukraine can re-arm and shore up its defenses. That threat will lend credence to Russia’s (and for that matter China’s and everyone else’s) suspicions that the US intends to destroy Russia, then dominate the rest of the world. It will also bankrupt America and create, in Eastern Europe, a situation that’s even more volatile and dangerous than the one that the Reagan administration and Bush the First succeeded, through great effort, in defusing.
That idea is stark, raving madness, and not at all consistent with “America First”.
You’ve previously established you’re both an idiot and a leftist troll, but I’m in a mood, so I’ll humor your foolishness:
First: Bullcrap. It’s ENTIRELY consistent with an AMERICA FIRST policy. Reagan “diffused” the situation by saying to the Russians “Ok, we’re going to spank you militarily if you even so much as THINK about attacking the United States or our Allies. EVER.” Perhaps you remember the mic check “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” It’s called PEACE through STRENGTH. Bush 41? Formerly the CIA DIRECTOR.
Second, Poland is arming itself to the TEETH with US made weapons and already has a functional ground-based AEGIS system. They have finally decided that they’re not going to be a speed-bump anymore. Poland can now, networked, basically shoot down ANY missile coming into airspace within something in unknown excess of 200 MILES of the system. Patriot can see you if you’re the size of a baseball at 100 miles (and Poland has something like 7 Patriot systems on order, currently). AEGIS can KILL YOU if you’re within 190 miles, and you’re the size of a golf ball.
Third: again Bullcrap. The amount of money necessary to arm Ukraine to the teeth and then unleash them ON Russia would be about another 400 billion, give or take a bit. We have an annual budget of 6.75 TRILLION. Yes, annoying from an expenditure standpoint. 7 percent of the budget. Putin KNOWS this. He’s NOT going to play chicken with Trump.
Who said anything about a “threat?” The United States Military CAN do this. The Russians KNOW this. The US Military KNOWS that the Russians KNOW this, regardless of their bluster in the press and their legion of fanboys on the internet spreading very poorly designed propaganda that fails if you read one word beyond the “headline” claims by the idiots peddling them.
The only people who think that the US wants to “dominate the rest of the world” are the “Globalist Elites” that are profiting from the current alleged stalemate of nations from the Obama and Biden years of thinking. President Trump is leading with the PEACE through STRENGTH model, and putting the world on notice FA, and FO.
The Ukraine is a money pit the Left has dumped on the USA. Not only are we to finance their idiotic war against a much larger and stronger foe, but the Ukraine will require everlasting protection from the Russian Bear determined to re-gain its breadbasket. Then there is the rebuilding of Ukraine’s ruined infrastructure, more expense.
The Ukraine is in Europe. Let Europe finance it,
And I would not trust Zelensky for a moment. He clearly wants the war, and it’s unlimited stream of donations, to continue. Why? What is his scam???
The USA should side step this disaster as soon as possible.