From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

President Trump puts more pressure on Ukraine to take a peace deal with Russia, but what are the proposed terms and would they amount to a victory for Vladimir Putin?

Plus, Virginia Governor Glenn Yonkin passes a bill to ban cell phones in public school classrooms

as the Republican and Democratic parties gear up for the state's off-year election to

choose Yonkin's successor.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member

Kate Batchelder O'Dell, and columnist Kim Strassel. Russian strikes overnight on the Ukrainian

capital of Kiev killed at least nine and injured dozens. News reports saying one missile struck a two-story

apartment building. That prompted a truth

social post this morning from President Trump, quote, I am not happy with the Russian strikes on

Keev, not necessary and very bad timing, Vladimir, stop, unquote. What makes that line notable

is that for the most part, the Trump administration seems to be putting its pressure for a deal on the Ukrainians and President Vladimir Zelensky.

Here is Vice President J.D. Vance speaking to reporters Wednesday during a trip to India.

We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either say yes

or for the United States to walk away from this process. We've engaged in an extraordinary

amount of diplomacy of on-the-ground work. We've really tried to understand things from the

perspective of both the Ukrainians and the Russians. What do Ukrainians care the most about?

What do the Russians care the most about? And I think that we've put together a very fair proposal. We're going to see if the Europeans, the Russians, and the Ukrainians are ultimately able to get this thing over the finish line. Again, I feel pretty optimistic about it. I think everybody has been negotiating in good faith, but it's now time, I think, to take, if not the final step,

one of the final steps, which is at a broad level, the party's saying, we're going to stop

the killing, we're going to freeze the territorial lines at some level close to where they are

today, and we're going to actually put in place the kind of long-term diplomatic settlement

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