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Trump ‘hopes’ Putin agrees to ceasefire as Moscow signals no truce yet
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is holding out «hope» that Russia will agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine as the first step to ending the brutal three-year-long war.
«We know where we are with Ukraine,» he told reporters while speaking from the Oval Office alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
«Hopefully they’ll do the right thing,» he added in reference to Russia.
President Donald Trump and Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the White House on July 18, 2019. Rutte, now NATO secretary-general met with Trump in the Oval Office on March 13, 2025. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
PUTIN THANKS TRUMP FOR PRINCIPLES OF CEASEFIRE PUSH, BUT DOES NOT SAY YES
Trump’s comments came just moments after Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an address in Moscow in which he thanked Trump for his ceasefire efforts, noting he agreed with them in «principle» but signaled he was not agreeing to the 30-day proposal as it stands now.
Trump said he was aware of Putin’s comments at the time of the Oval Office press conference and classified the Russian leader’s comments as «promising» but «incomplete.»
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
«He put out a very promising statement, but it wasn’t complete,» Trump said. «I’d love to meet with him or talk to him, but we have to get it over with fast.»
The president noted that Russian officials have flagged grievances relating to debates over the Zaporizhzhia power plant and Ukrainians’ admittance into NATO, which Putin also touched on during his address in Moscow.
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«A lot of the details of a final agreement have actually been discussed,» Trump told reporters moments after Putin’s remarks. «Now we’re going to see whether or not Russia is there.
«If they’re not, it’ll be a very disappointing moment for the world,» he added.
Check back on this developing story.
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Donald Trump usó «palestino» como insulto contra un senador y fue cuestionado por grupos judíos y musulmanes
El presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, se vio envuelto en una nueva polémica al utilizar el término «palestino» para descalificar al senador demócrata Chuck Schumer.
«Solía ser judío. Ya no es judío, es un palestino«, fueron las palabras que utilizó el mandatario para referirse al senador.
Esto provocó el repudio de diversas organizaciones y funcionarios que lo acusaron que promover el racismo y usar la palabra «palestino» como una forma de discriminación y por considerarlos directamente ofensivos.
«Un presidente tiene muchos poderes, pero ninguno de ellos incluye decidir quién es judío y quién no. Hacerlo, y usar la palabra ‘palestino’ como insulto, son dos cosas inapropiadas para cualquier (presidente de Estados Unidos)», declaró en la red X la Liga Antidifamación, un grupo activista judío (@ADL).
Por otra parte, Nihad, Awad, quien es director del Consejo de Relaciones Estadounidenses-islámicas (CAIR), afirmó que «la forma en que el presidente Trump usó el término ‘palestino’, como un insulto racial, es ofensiva y no está a la altura de la dignidad de su cargo». Debería pedir disculpas«, agregó.
La Directora del Consejo Judío Democrático de América, Halie Sofer, condenó las declaraciones de Trump y las calificó como «aberrantes».
«Desde que asumió el cargo, ha enaltecido a los teóricos de la conspiración antisemitas y ha atacado nuestra democracia. Su retórica, su agenda y su alineamiento con extremistas de derecha ponen en peligro a los judíos estadounidenses», escribió Soifer en X (@HalieSoifer).
El senador por la minoría demócrata Chuck Schumer, está presionado por los republicanos para que apruebe en Senado antes del viernes a la medianoche, un proyecto de ley de presupuesto para que el gobierno no sufra una parálisis financiera.
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Poland calls on US to place nukes within its borders amid Russia threat
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has once again called on the U.S. to place nuclear weapons within its borders in a show of deterrence to Russia’s continued aggression just over the border in Ukraine.
A similar request was apparently made to the Biden administration in 2022, which was never agreed to, but Duda has not given up on the idea. This time he addressed his appeal to the Trump administration during an interview with the Financial Times that was published Thursday.
«Russia did not even hesitate when they were relocating their nuclear weapons into Belarus,» Duda told the Financial Times in reference to actions Russia took beginning in 2023, a year after it invaded Ukraine. «They didn’t ask anyone’s permission.»
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s questions about where President Donald Trump stands when it comes to this form of deterrence.
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President Andrzej Duda speaks during the Polish parliament meeting in Warsaw on March 7, 2025. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The Trump administration this week took steps to try and bring about an end to the war in Ukraine, which has been raging for more than three years following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
While Ukraine has agreed to the U.S.’s initial 30-day ceasefire contingent on Russia’s acceptance of the terms, Moscow has not, and it is unlikely that the Trump administration would take steps to jeopardize those negotiations by agreeing to put U.S. nukes in Poland – which shares a border with Russia and could be viewed as a threat by the Kremlin.
But Duda’s advisor on international affairs, Wojciech Kolarski, echoed the Polish president’s plea and, in a Thursday interview with Poland’s RMF FM radio, argued that as a NATO member who shares a border with Russia’s Kaliningrad region, as well as Ukraine and Belarus, the steps were important for Warsaw’s security.
Aerial view taken on Nov. 17, 2022 shows the site where a missile strike killed two men in the eastern Poland village of Przewodow, near the border with war-ravaged Ukraine on Nov. 15, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski, Damien Simonart/AFP via Getty Images)
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But should the U.S. again refuse Poland’s request, there is another nuclear-armed nation in the NATO alliance that may be willing to assist in «nuclear sharing.»
Amid mounting concern in the European Union that the U.S. could withdraw forces from the bloc or become an unreliable defense partner in countering Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron opened discussions on a strategy that could help extend its nuclear deterrence to other EU nations.
French President Emmanuel Macron meets with President Donald Trump. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
While the specifics of that strategy remain unclear, including whether France has proposed actually dispersing nuclear arms to other nations, Poland has reportedly been in talks with France about the issue.
Russia has already called France’s strategy to re-evaluate its extension of nuclear deterrence «extremely confrontational.»
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Despite Moscow’s objections, France’s defense concept is far from new as the U.S. deterrence umbrella during the Cold War was intended to ensure NATO allies would be protected under America’s nuclear power in case of a direct threat by another nuclear-armed nation, like Russia, China or North Korea.
While France is the EU’s only nuclear power, it has the third-largest nuclear stockpile when it comes to nuclear-armed nations in NATO, which also includes the U.S. and the U.K.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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