The Trump-Putin phone line passed its thirteenth day of silence Monday, and the Kremlin closed the door on it in plain language. Dmitry Peskov told Russian state media there are no plans for a new call with the American president and no plans to extend the three-day truce that expired at midnight Moscow time. [1] The last readout from a Trump-Putin call dates to April 29.

The paper's May 10 reading at Day 12 treated the silence as a window the Victory Day parade might briefly reopen. It did not. The paper's Sunday morning count of mutual violations — roughly one thousand on each side by midday — set the pattern the rest of the truce inherited. [2] The Russian Defense Ministry charged Ukrainian forces with over a thousand violations across the three days. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia was "not even particularly trying" to observe the pause. [3]

What this means inside Trump's calendar is the operating fact. Two presidential phone-call instruments closed inside the same Wednesday window — the Ukraine truce on Sunday night, and the fourteen-point Iran framework on a Wednesday deadline Iran's rejected counter has now armed. Moscow and Tehran rejected Trump-brokered text inside one news cycle. Neither rejection produced an extension call. [1][3]

Peskov was asked, on the record, whether the Russian president would speak with the American president this week. He said there were no plans. [1] The Day 13 silence is no longer scheduling. It is policy.

-- KATYA VOLKOV, Moscow