Russia has declared a high unilateral fire of 72 hours in Ukraine to coincide with its most sacred national vacations that mark the defeat of World War II of Nazi Germany, Victory Day, asking kyiv to accept the pause.
Ukraine was quick in his response, which occurred shortly after Monday’s Russian proposal.
“If Russia really wants peace, it must cease fire immediately,” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, according to his ministry. He reiterated that Ukraine is ready for a “durable, reliable and complete fire” for at least 30 full days.
“Why wait on May 8? If we can leave fire now from any date and for 30 days, to be real, and not only for a parade,” he said, without confirming if Kyiv would accept the proposal of truce.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zensky, later on Monday also dismissed the three -day truce. “Now there is a new manipulation attempt: for some reason, everyone has to wait until May 8,” he said in his daily direction.
Previously, President Vladimir Putin said the Russian forces would stop midnight struggles from May 7 to 8 until midnight from May 10 to 11. The announcement occurred in the midst of the growing pressure of the United States to accept a full fire in the conflict.
Russia will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War, the term that uses the war with the third Reich from 1942 to 1945, commonly known as World War II, on May 9.
“Duration in this period, all hostilities will cease,” the Kremlin said in a statement. Putin made the decision on “humanitarian motifs,” he added.
The Kremlin statement asked kyiv to join the fire, but promised that in case of any rape of the Ukrainians, the Russian armed forces would give an “adequate and effective response.”
Zein Basravi informing kyiv for Al Jazeera, said: “The Ukrainians are not taking this seriously, they are responding hard with great criticism … the response of the military officers, as well as, as well as a point, as well as a point rather, as well as the rather, as well as the rather, so, so, rather, so, the highest, the highest, so as well as the government, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, as well as the government As rather, so well, as well as the government, thus, as well as the government, so.
A Ukrainian officer, said Basravi, thought that the high fire is pure madness and honestly irritated.
“Putin is simply trying to bleach himself, show that the Russians are good.
United States pressure
Monday’s announcement was Putin’s second surprise pause statement in rapid succession, after a 30 -hour Easter truce from April 19 to 20, that both countries were accused of raping.
The ads of the Easter truce and the May pause were made while the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been signing that he was impatient with Putin while sought to monitor a peace agreement.
The US proposals on the end of the three -year war in Ukraine have so far yielded to Russia’s demands, asking for recognition of Moscow’s control over Crimea, as well as the de facto recognition of the Russian winery in other parts of Ukraine.
However, after meeting Zenskyy outside Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, Trump adopted a more critical tone towards Russia, expressing that Conern that Putin was “only hit me.”
On Sunday, Trump told Putin that “he stopped shooting” and signed an agreement at the time that reiterated threats to divert the role as a runner, indicating that he would give the process “two weeks.”
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said Sunday that next week would be “critical.” “We are close, but we are not close enough,” he said.
However, Ukraine and its European allies have persistently warned Trump that are not tasks for Russian prevarication on an agreement, while continuing to bombard the Ukrainian cities.
‘Ball not on our court’
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in the comments published by the newspaper or Brasil’s Globe on Monday that his country is “open to negotiations”, but that “the ball is not on our court” and it was to make the first movement to launch.
Ukraine needs to “cancel” a decree of 2022 that discards negotiations with Russia, introduced after Russia attached four regions that year, he said, before duplicating the demands of international recognition of Crimea and Sevastopol, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhia as a condition of a truce.
Hello, Moscow’s demands also reiterated on “Demilitariing and Denazifying” Ukraine and prohibit the country from joining the NATO military alliance.
Zenskyy said last Friday that Ukraine “would not legally recognize any temporarily occupied territories”, and has previously called the “incomprehensible” demilitarization demand.
Trump, whose meeting with Zenskyy on Saturday was the first since the couple faced in the Oval office in February, suggested on Sunday that Ukraine could be ready for Crimea, the Black Sea Peninsula seized by Russia in 2014.
‘Plain Lies’
Before Putin’s announcement. Zenskyy’s Cabinet Chief Andriy Yermak wrote on Monday that the continuous Russian attacks contradicted Kremlin’s statements about wanting peace.
“All the statements of the Russians about peaceless fire are simply lies,” he said.
Russia and Ukraine attacked with each other with long -range attacks, authorities said on Monday.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces knocked down 119 Ukrainian drones during the night, most of them about their Bryansk border region.
In Ukraine, air attacks sirens are classified throughout the country on Monday morning. There were no immediate reports of victims or damage.
A Russian attack against a Ukrainian village near the Pokrovsk first -line city in the Donetsk region killed three residents, regional prosecutors said.
Around the weekend, Russia announced that he had total control tasks of his Kursk region with the help of North Korean troops. Ukraine insisted that the fight was in the region.
