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Ellipsis

(9,289 posts)
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 06:19 PM Mar 18

Putin bombs energy plants hours after telling Trump he would halt attacks

Last edited Tue Mar 18, 2025, 06:50 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: The Telegraph

Russia bombed Ukraine energy infrastructure just hours after Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump he would halt attacks on the grid.

Putin’s forces conducted an airstrike on the energy infrastructure of Slovyansk, a city of 100,000 people in the Donetsk region, according to local reports, leaving part of the city without electricity.

After what the Kremlin called a “frank” phone call with Mr Trump, the two leaders agreed that formal negotiations on a 30-day truce would begin “immediately” in the Middle East.

Putin ordered the Russian military to halt attacks on energy plants in Ukraine without delay, the Kremlin said after the 90-minute phone call ended.


Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/18/russia-ukraine-zelensky-putin-peace-talks-war-latest-news/



More links:

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/politics/russian-bomb-reportedly-cuts-power-in-ukrainian-city-just-hours-after-putin-promised-trump-he-d-stop-attacking-energy-facilities/ar-AA1Bbx0Z


https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-bombs-ukrainian-energy-plant-just-hours-after-promising-trump-strikes-would-stop
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Putin bombs energy plants hours after telling Trump he would halt attacks (Original Post) Ellipsis Mar 18 OP
Big fu to tsf cilla4progress Mar 18 #1
So Putin is about as trustworthy as Trmp? louis-t Mar 18 #2
Meh, Putin will just use Trump's excuse for flying those immigrants out of the US: 'Planes/rockets were already flying' Attilatheblond Mar 18 #3
All Putin has left are missiles and bombs. Basso8vb Mar 18 #4
shithole is the same................... Lovie777 Mar 18 #5
The Missiles and Drones were already in the air maxsolomon Mar 18 #6
Do bears poop in the woods? BigmanPigman Mar 18 #7
Two things. Igel Mar 18 #8
So he bombed his own infrastructure! eggplant Mar 18 #9
Can't rust either one, putin or trump. republianmushroom Mar 18 #10

Attilatheblond

(5,679 posts)
3. Meh, Putin will just use Trump's excuse for flying those immigrants out of the US: 'Planes/rockets were already flying'
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 06:24 PM
Mar 18

And we do not need a CIC who gets sucker punched by Putin over and over. Especially we do not need the people of Ukraine to pay with their lives because Trump is such a stupid, vapid fool who caves in to flattery every time Putin gives him orders.

Basso8vb

(877 posts)
4. All Putin has left are missiles and bombs.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 06:35 PM
Mar 18

Ukraine has kicked the shit out of his army.

This "3 day war" is well into its 4th year now.

maxsolomon

(36,391 posts)
6. The Missiles and Drones were already in the air
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:06 PM
Mar 18

and couldn't be recalled. Or something similar.

Igel

(36,728 posts)
8. Two things.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:47 PM
Mar 18

1. Only a fool would expect Putin to keep his word. 'Nuff said.

2. If pushed, he'll have one of two responses (or maybe each, alternating by context and sunspot activity):
a. The word didn't travel through the most excellent chain of command quickly enough.
b. Slov'yansk isn't in Ukraine, it's in Donetsk Oblast' which is universally accepted by right-thinking people as Russian territory since the ex parte annexation by his Third Reic... Rome.

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