The Ukrainian president, Volodyymyr Zenskyy, welcomed Vladimir Putin’s call to the direct peace talks, but said that kyiv will only meet once Moscow accepts a high unconditional fire of 30 days from Monday.
The Kremlin, however, insisted that it would not stop the three -year invasion of the Russian president of Ukraine without first having conversations about the “initial reasons” for the conflict.
Competitive proposals indicate that Ukraine and Russia remain very separate on how to start a peace process while competing for the goodwill of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
“We hope Russia confirms a high fire, complete, durable and reliable, starting tomorrow, May 12, and Ukraine is ready to meet,” Zenskyy said in a statement on social networks on Sunday.
He called Putin’s proposal “a positive sign that the Russians have finally begun to consider ending the war.”
“The entire world has been waiting for this for a long time. And the first step to really end any war is a high fire,” he said.
Earlier on Sunday morning, Putin offered negotiations without conditions in Istanbul on Thursday, but rejected the proposal of high fire of Ukraine.
He thought that Russia and Ukraine made it clear that Neinder’s side was ready to meet unless
“A great potential day for Russia and Ukraine!” The president of the United States wrote on social networks. “Think of the hundreds of thousands of lives that will be saved as this” Bloodbath “never ending lucky for its end.”
Hey later published in Truth Social that “Ukraine should agree with this, immediately.”
Putin resumed the combat operations in Ukraine immediately after insisting that he would only hold conversations about a high fire after Russia’s main demands to end war were. After talking to journalists at the Kremlin in the early hours of Sunday, the sirens rang in Ukraine, while Russian drones attacked goals in several regions.
Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy advisor, told State TV that Moscow wanted [ . . .] On the ground ”, where Russia holds the advantage on the battlefield.
Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Putin that Türkiye was ready to organize peace conversations between Russia and Ukraine, said Erdogan’s office.
Maria Zakharova, spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Ukraine had “read badly” Putin’s statement. “Putin said it very clearly: negotiations on the initial reasons [for the war] First, then a conversation about a high fire, “Newswire Tass told State.
Russia’s demands include a bar on the NATO membership for Ukraine and the recognition of Putin’s annexation of four regions of the southeast, as well as the end of Western military support for kyiv. A return to Istanbul’s conversations would also involve Ukraine to the neutrality of the Pleedition, accept the limits in its military and accept Moscow’s demands to protect the Russian language in the country.
Ukraine has said that these terms would end their existence as a modern state.
The Russian counterofferte is a rejection of the 30 -day fire proposal made on Saturday after the leaders of France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom visited kyiv to meet Zenskyy.
Puntuatuation of air defects Early silence in the morning in kyiv only hours after the leaders of France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom departed by train from the Ukrainian capital.
The European partners agreed that if Russia rejected a high total and unconditional fire of 30 days, stricter sanctions would be adopted against banking and energy sectors, Elysée said on Saturday night.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, told journalists on Sunday that Putin’s response was “a first movement, but it is not enough,” he added that it was a means of “not answering” the proposals of Alto El Fuego.
“We have to stand firm with the Americans to say that the high fire is unconditional and then we can discuss the rest,” he said from a night train in Przemyśl, Poland, after starting from kyiv.
“It is unacceptable for Ukrainians because they cannot accept parallel discussions while they are continuously bombarded.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk also urged Russia to accept a high immediate fire.
In a publication on the social media platform X on Sunday, he wrote: “In response to our appeal, the Russians have proposed peace conversations from May 15. The world, however, is waiting for a unique decision about an immediate and unconditional vicender. Ukraine.”
Additional Raphael Less and Anne-Sylvaine Chassany reports
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