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Trump-Putin: The Call and the May 9 Ceasefire

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Germany

STATE MEDIA

1 SOURCE

Single source

Atlanticist skeptics · 4 of 12 countries

Berlin absorbs the Trump-Putin call while Trump threatens to withdraw American troops from Germany

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Canada

1 SOURCE

Single source

Atlanticist skeptics · 4 of 12 countries

Ottawa observes the Trump-Putin call through the prism of its own tensions with Washington

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United States

1 SOURCE

Single source

Directly engaged powers · 2 of 12 countries

Washington presents a 90-minute call as a diplomatic breakthrough, with no binding content for Moscow

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France

incl. 1 state outlet

2 SOURCES

Paris registers the alarm signal: peace diplomacy on Ukraine conducted without Europe or Zelensky

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India

1 SOURCE

Single source

Pragmatic mediators · 3 of 12 countries

New Delhi sees in the Trump-Putin call an opportunity to accelerate an exit from conflict that weighs on its own energy imports

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Italy

1 SOURCE

Single source

Rome welcomes any peace signal on Ukraine, caught between NATO obligations and war-weary public opinion

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Qatar

STATE MEDIA

1 SOURCE

Single source

Pragmatic mediators · 3 of 12 countries

Doha analyzes the Iran-Ukraine linkage in the Trump-Putin call as opportunity for its own regional mediation

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United Kingdom

1 SOURCE

Single source

Atlanticist skeptics · 4 of 12 countries

London, which had just tended the Atlantic alliance through Charles III, observes Trump negotiating with Putin the next day

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Russia

incl. 1 state outlet

2 SOURCES

Directly engaged powers · 2 of 12 countries

Moscow presents Putin as the peacemaker who proposes a ceasefire while Trump validates his approach

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Singapore

1 SOURCE

Single source

Singapore observes the Trump-Putin call as a test of American capacity to manage multiple wars simultaneously

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Turkey

STATE MEDIA

1 SOURCE

Single source

Pragmatic mediators · 3 of 12 countries

Ankara sees in the Trump-Putin call a validation of its own mediation strategy between the two sides

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Ukraine

2 SOURCES

Atlanticist skeptics · 4 of 12 countries

Kyiv receives the May 9 ceasefire offer as a Moscow maneuver, not as a beginning of peace

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TRUMP-PUTIN: THE CALL AND THE MAY 9 CEASEFIRE

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