Ukraine, Russia says, drone attacks are demanding after the call from Trump-Putin

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The Ukraine and Russia accused each other of starting attack drones overnight, hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump – and rejected an immediate ceasefire.

Russia started 108 Shahed drones and “different types of prolonged volunteers,” said the Ukraine air weapon on its telegram channel on Tuesday and added that the air defendants had destroyed 93 of them in the east, in the center and north of the country.

The strikes come after Trump and Putin spoke for almost two hours on Monday – Trump from the Oval Office and Putin, who was called from a visit to a music school in the city of Sochi.

After the call, Trump said that Kyiv and Moscow would start the ceasefire negotiations “immediately”.

However, Putin said the Kremlin was ready to work with Ukraine on a “possible ceasefire for a certain period of time, provided the corresponding agreements are achieved.

Neither Putin nor Trump discussed a time frame for a possible ceasefire, said Aide Yury Ushakov.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Moscow was trying to delay negotiations in order to continue the conflict. “It is obvious that Russia is trying to buy time to continue his war and crew,” Zelensky wrote after a discussion with Finnish President Alexander Stubb on social media, who touched Trump's call with Putin.

Putin previously ignored a proposal from Washington and Kyiv for a 30-day ceasefire and Zelensky's call last week to meet for talks in Istanbul.

When the turkey speaks, Trump said, he did not believe that there would be a significant breakthrough during the peace talks until he spoke directly to Putin.

“Unfortunately, the status quo has not changed the Trump -Tutin call,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, a Zelensky consultant

The European heads of state and government decided to increase the pressure on Russia through sanctions after Trump informed them when calling with Putin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in an X post late Monday.

Trump said that he would not “because there is a chance of progress”.

“I think it is possible to do something, and if you do it, you could make it much worse. But there could be a time when that will happen,” said Trump.

After the call, the discussions about the future location of a further discussions would take place – which initially aimed at reaching an armistice.

The Russian State Agency TASS quoted the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as reporters that “so far no specific decisions about the location for the continuation of possible future contacts have been made” to Ukrainian civil servants.

“We are primarily interested in a fast settlement by eliminating the main causes of this conflict,” said Peskov.

Putin “wants the Ukraine to result,” said William Taylor, former US ambassador to Ukraine and a respected scholarship holder in the Atlantic Council, to CNNS The Newsroom with Rosemary Church.

“He wants Ukraine to be surrendered. He wants Ukraine to disarm … in a position in which … the Ukrainians cannot defend themselves,” said Taylor.

“That is what Putin means when he says 'the basic cause'.”