Trump says that the United States and Russia had “fruitful” discussions about Ukraine’s stop.

President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia on Friday that Ukraine orders some of its forces to surrender to Russia, an amazing request he made hours after President Trump said that the United States was “good and fruitful” with Mr. Putin about the potential ceasefire in Ukraine.

Mr. Putin’s television comments shortly after Mr. Trump on social media, he urged the Russian leader to spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers who are struggling to stick to a piece of land in the Corsak region of Russia.

Mr. Trump wrote: “I strongly asked President Putin to deliver their lives,” says Mr. Trump.

Both presidents claimed on Friday that the Ukrainian forces were surrounded by Kursk, the area where the Kiev Russia forces were amazed by a cross -border penetration last summer. Independent analysts have stabbed these allegations, and the Ukraine Army rejected them on Friday again.

However, the Russian forces recently had the upper hand in the fighting in Kursk. Mr. Putin said that in order for Mr. Trump to implement an “effective implementation”, Ukraine leaders need to request “their military units to put their arms and surrender.” No man raised the idea of ​​Russian forces on Ukrainian lands.

The battles were raging in Kursk, while Moscow forces were pressuring the Ukrainian forces from the small correction of the lands they seized during the summer. Russian forces have advanced in recent days, as Mr. Putin urged them to end the job “In the shortest possible time.”

What happens after that In your corses It has become a major disagreement point before the potential ceasefire. On Thursday, Mr. Putin suggested less explicitly that he wanted to order Ukraine with its soldiers there to surrender as part of any ceasefire deal.

But his comments on Friday were more direct, and it came at a time when Kremlin and Beath Beath indicated that negotiations are moving forward despite the group of concessions that Moscow seems to seek.

After the Russian leader met with Steve Whitkov, the American Special Envoy in Moscow, late Thursday, expressed senior officials of both the White House and Kremlin for “cautious optimism”.

On Friday morning, Mr. Trump wrote on Friday morning on the truth platform, in a clear reference to the meeting with Mr. Witkeov: “We have had good and fruitful discussions with President Vladimir Putin from Russia yesterday.” “There is a very good opportunity because this terrible bloody war can finally end.”

But President Voludmir Zelinsky of Ukraine asked whether Russia was acting in good faith, noting that his country has already agreed to a 30 -day truce after a meeting with US officials in Saudi Arabia this week.

“The world sees how Russia deliberately puts the circumstances that hold the process and withdraw it only,” Mr. Zellinski He said Friday on social media. “Russia is the only party that wants to continue the war and diplomacy.”

It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump had spoken directly to each other. The Kremlin said earlier on Friday that Mr. Putin, at his meeting with Mr. Witkeov, “passed through the information and additional signals to President Trump.” He also said that Mr. Putin expected to speak to Mr. Trump, but the invitation has not yet been set.

This social position was the truth in which Mr. Trump also said that thousands of Ukrainian forces were “completely surrounded by the Russian army” – in a clear reference to the Russian allegations that the Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded in Kursk

“There is no threat to encrypt our units,” said the general staff of the Ukrainian army in statement Shortly after Friday, such reports were called “false and attached by the Russians.”

“The situation is bad, almost embarrassed,” said a Ukrainian soldier who is fighting in Korsk, who was reached on Friday, and spoke on the condition that his identity is not disclosed to discuss the current situation in the battlefield. The soldier added that it was not bad as Mr. Trump described his position.

On Friday, the Ukrainian authorities requested several villages in the Sumi area, across the border from Kursk, to evacuate them amid increasing attacks and fears that the fighting would leak.

“Weather attacks – such as bombs and drones have attacked – intensified in the border areas,” said Volodymyr Artiukhin, Ukrainian President of the Regional Military Administration, on Facebook. The mandatory evacuation announced on Friday from eight villages, affecting 543 residents.

The leadership of the Ukrainian forces from Kursk would deprive Mr. Zelinski of a large bargaining segment in any negotiations. Before meeting with Mr. Witkoff, Mr. Putin showed on Thursday that he was not in a hurry to accept a 30-day truce presented by Ukraine and the United States this week- News of a press conference that it was open to the proposalHowever, he suggested that he would seek to negotiate a large number of issues, such as western weapons delivery operations to Ukraine, which may delay or hinder any deal.

But Dmitry S. Peskov, a spokesman for Mr. Putin, suggested on Friday that the result of the diplomacy and the escape will not become clear until after Mr. Wittouf threw Mr. Trump and after the Russian and American leaders spoke over the phone. The two leaders Another known to speak On February 12.

Mr. Wittakov, a formal envoy in the Middle East, also played a major role as a hub with Russia – spends three hours at the meeting with Mr. Putin last month while completing it. Prisoners exchange.

Mr. Peskov said: “After Mr. Witfouf passes on all the information he received in Moscow to his president – we will determine the timing of the conversation after that.” “There is an understanding on both sides that such a conversation is necessary.”

Mr. Peskov’s comments were the latest indications that Mr. Putin is likely trying to balance the desire to avoid the inconvenience of Mr. Trump with his efforts to impose widespread concessions from the west and from Ukraine. While Mr. Trump says he wants to end the war as quickly as possible, Mr. Putin seems confident that he has time on his side and that unconditional ceasefire will benefit Ukraine.

Kiev officials have argued that Mr. Putin is now simply trying to withdraw negotiations while continuing to fight and has no plans to make concessions that could lead to solid peace.

“Ukraine is seeking the war,” the country’s foreign minister, Andrei Sibha, published on Friday. “Putin seeks to continue the war. The remaining words are just a smoke screen.”

Mark Santora He contributed to the reports from Dnipro, Ukraine.