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VLADIMIR Putin’s top TV puppet blasted Donald Trump in a bile-filled rant and vowed more slaughter in Ukraine, days before Russia’s own ceasefire is due.
Meanwhile, Zelensky hailed the “liquidation” of Russian generals by Ukraine‘s spies after one was blown up by a car bomb in a suspected Ukrainian hit.
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East2WestVladimir Solovyov revealed Putin’s intention to keep killing, abandoning the pretence that Russia supports Trump’s peace mission.
The Kremlin mouth piece mocked Trump along with Volodomyr Zelensky and France’s Emmanuel Macron, who he branded a “pathetic nobody” for warning the West is poised to ratchet pressure on Moscow.
He made it clear the war will continue until Putin has snatched more Ukrainian land, while taunting Trump’s lack of authority and capabilities.
The propagandist spouted off after Trump publicly doubted Putin’s commitment to peace on Saturday, accusing the Russian of “stringing him along”.
Trump followed up by demanding Putin “sit down and make a deal” after months of stalling – and commits to a full ceasefire.
Rattled, Vlad announced a token three-day ceasefire to coincide with VE Day on May 7.
Few interpreted this as a genuine commitment to peace, and Zelensky branded it blatant “manipulation”.
A Kremlin official told the Moscow times on Monday: “We are sending a signal to the outside world: we are peace-loving, and they [in Ukraine] are terrorists — referring, for example, to the recent killing of General Moskalik.
“Another intended recipient of this signal is the U.S. president himself: ‘Look, Mr. Trump, we are trying.'”
The Russians’ claims to be “peace loving” and truly “trying” have been totally undermined by Solovyov’s rant, and the ceasefire proposal revealed as a sham.
Solovyov’s script is directed by his Kremlin paymasters, so the stuff he spews can be understood as Putin’s own thinking.
He ridiculed Trump’s threat to impose new sanctions on Putin for refusing to end the fighting and engage in peace talks.
Solovyov asked: “Whether Trump imposes sanctions on us or not — what difference does it make?
“Macron says: ‘Putin must prove his commitment to peace’. Prove it to whom, to you, you pathetic nobody? We owe you nothing at all.”
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Yaroslav Moskalik was killed when a car bomb exploded
SplashHe continued: “Zelensky agrees to a complete ceasefire […] We couldn’t care less what Zelensky agrees or disagrees with!”
The babbling stooge fumed that Russia‘s land “is not yet liberated” and insisted the mission set by Putin has “not yet been fully accomplished”.
He also vowed that Russia would not think in terms of “ceasefire or not ceasefire”.
Turning his attention to the US president, Solovyov said: “And the men in uniform, who every day are not waiting for Trump, but are carrying out their assigned combat missions.
“And this attempt to explain something to us […] Will [Trump] impose secondary sanctions or not?
“Trump is not Putin. He does not have the full authority or capabilities.”
The Kremlin is still reeling from the death of one of its military heads, Lieutenant-General Yaroslav Moskalik, who was pulverised by a car bomb in Moscow last week.
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ReutersDramatic footage showed the moment the vehicle blows to smithereens and catches fire.
Moskalik, who had recently been promoted by Putin, was said to have been walking past at the exact moment of the explosion and was thrown “several metres” across the path.
The explosive was likely detonated from a remote location with the car parked only a few feet away from a tall apartment block
Russia has blamed Kyiv for the assassination.
Ukraine has made no public comment, but Zelensky wrote on Monday: “The head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence reported on the liquidation of persons from the top command of the Russian armed forces. Justice inevitably is done.
“”The head reported on further measures to counter Russian agent networks in Ukraine and saboteurs. Good results. Thank you for your work.”
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EPAMeanwhile, Russian terror drone have continued to scorch Ukraine.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region a 12-year-old girl 12 was killed, and other children pulled alive from the rubble following a strike.
A six-year-old girl and two adults were wounded in the attack.
And in Kyiv, a three-storey recreation centre was burned to the ground by a strike, leaving one woman injured.
Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazansky reported: “Another victory for the Russian army. The Russians are proud of it.”
Zelensky responded to Moscow’s VE Day ceasefire proposal by saying: “Here is another attempt at manipulation.
“For some reason everyone should wait for May 8 and only then cease fire to provide Putin with silence during the parade.
“We value human lives, not parades. That is why we believe – the world believes – that there is no reason to wait for May 8.
“And the fire must cease, not for a few days, only to kill again.
“An immediate, complete and unconditional ceasefire – and for at least 30 days, to be guaranteed and credible – is what can provide the basis for real diplomacy.”
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