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riversedge

(79,983 posts) Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:16 PM 9 hrs ago

Russia Strikes Ukraine Hours After Trump Bragged About Deal With Putin

Source: new republic

Donald Trump boasted about getting Vladimir Putin to agree to a pause in hostilities.
Edith Olmsted/ February 3, 2026/11:50 a.m. ET

You’ll never guess which country launched a massive attack just hours after President Donald Trump announced yet another supposed temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.

Sitting at his desk in the Oval Office Monday, Trump repeated his claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “agreed” to pause Moscow’s repeated strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, as the temperatures in Europe dropped dangerously low.

“I asked him if he wouldn’t shoot for a period of one week, no missiles going into Kyiv or any other town, and he’s agreed to do it, so it’s something,” said Trump, the king of wishful thinking—or more just utter bullshit................

Trump had initially claimed there would be a weeklong ceasefire during a Cabinet meeting Thursday, sparking some confusion in Kyiv about when the pause would actually begin, or what it would entail. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov clarified that Russia had only agreed to pause strikes until February 1 “in order to create favorable conditions for negotiations,” which are set to resume Wednesday in Abu Dhabi.

Read more: https://newrepublic.com/post/206078/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack

Gee. Putin made a pinky promise (or so Trump claims) Trump but then broke his promise.

What will Trumpy do now???

Russia Strikes Ukraine Hours After Trump Bragged About Deal With Putin
Donald Trump boasted about getting Vladimir Putin to agree to a pause in hostilities.

newrepublic.com/post/206078/... via @newrepublic.com
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Russia Strikes Ukraine Hours After Trump Bragged About Deal With Putin (Original Post) riversedge 9 hrs ago OP

Shocking SheltieLover 9 hrs ago #1

So much for getting a Nobel for brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine. marble falls 9 hrs ago #2

My goodness! A cynic might conclude Don and Vlad are just lying thugs struggle4progress 8 hrs ago #3

Shouldn't everyone know by now that Hey Joe 8 hrs ago #4

Trump will just say "Oh, you thought I meant right now? No, I wouldn't tell you that!?! AZJonnie 7 hrs ago #5

Trump was the best investment Putin ever made fujiyamasan 7 hrs ago #6

Putin attacked a maternity hospital on Sunday, as well as a bus of coal miners muriel_volestrangler 4 hrs ago #7

Article says Putin broke agreement on Monday, but he actually already broke it on Friday, too thesquanderer 1 hr ago #8

SheltieLover

(78,095 posts)

1. Shocking

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:21 PM

9 hrs ago

marble falls

(71,378 posts)

2. So much for getting a Nobel for brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:23 PM

9 hrs ago

struggle4progress

(125,661 posts)

3. My goodness! A cynic might conclude Don and Vlad are just lying thugs

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:40 PM

8 hrs ago

instead of believing their dreamy-eyed stories of peace

Hey Joe

(488 posts)

4. Shouldn't everyone know by now that

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2026, 12:10 AM

8 hrs ago

Trump is Putins fluffer?
I mean, come on!

AZJonnie

(3,146 posts)

5. Trump will just say "Oh, you thought I meant right now? No, I wouldn't tell you that!?!

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2026, 01:02 AM

7 hrs ago

Maybe in the next two weeks, that's all I'm going to say!"

fujiyamasan

(1,424 posts)

6. Trump was the best investment Putin ever made

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2026, 01:03 AM

7 hrs ago

Cheap too. What an ROI.

Let’s not give Putin all the credit. This nation is full of ass holes that liked what Trump promised. Even a lot of Ukrainians liked him.

Not sure I give a fuck about any of it anymore.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,798 posts)

7. Putin attacked a maternity hospital on Sunday, as well as a bus of coal miners

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2026, 03:34 AM

4 hrs ago

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143609438

Why the fuck was Trump hallucinating on Monday about a ceasefire?

thesquanderer

(12,914 posts)

8. Article says Putin broke agreement on Monday, but he actually already broke it on Friday, too

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2026, 07:21 AM

1 hr ago

see https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-putin-broken-ceasefire_n_697d14a2e4b0b1de95bf5356?origin=home-latest-news-unit

Basically the same story, Jan 30, 2026...

WASHINGTON – A mere hours after President Donald Trump claimed that Vladimir Putin had agreed to stop attacking Ukraine because of the cold weather there, the Russian dictator rained down more than 100 drones and a ballistic missile on the neighbor he is still trying to take by force...A total of 111 long-range drones and one ballistic missile were launched into Ukraine on Friday
...
On Thursday afternoon, Trump had boasted how his personal intervention was helping Ukrainians as they struggled through a bitter cold snap that was sending overnight temperatures there below zero degrees Fahrenheit...“They said they’ve never experienced cold like that, and I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv and the various towns for a week and he agreed to do that. "
...
Instead, Ukrainian and Russian officials offered different accounts of what they agreed to at three-way talks in Abu Dhabi last weekend. Zelenskyy said the agreement was about the two countries not attacking each other’s energy infrastructure. “Ukraine is ready to mirror the restraint, and today we did not attack Russian energy,” he wrote in a Friday afternoon post.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin had agreed to not strike Kyiv specifically, according to the Moscow Times. “I can say that President Trump did indeed make a personal request to President Putin to refrain from striking Kyiv for a week, until Feb. 1, as a way to create more hospitable conditions for negotiations.”

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