The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, ordered a high three -day fire in the war in his country in Ukraine, from May 8 to 10, coinciding with the commemorations of the Victory Day of World War II of Moscow, the Kremlin said Monday. Ukraine quickly accused Putin’s forces, which have more than three years in their large -scale invasion, or Violating the last high the fire that Putin declaredEaster Sunday.
The three -day truce declared by Putin on Monday covers the national holidays in Russia that coincides with the victory in Europe, or VE Day, which is marked throughout Europe on May 8, the date on which Nazi Germany admitted Udosa forces in 1945. The then S Aliedetiet. The United States, which defeated Adolf Hitler’s fascist regime.
“Russia believes that the Ukrainian side should follow this example,” said Kremlin on Monday by announcing Putin’s order. “In case of rapes of the truce on the Ukrainian side, the Russian armed forces will give an adequate and effective response.”
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On Easter Sunday, just a few hours from the last high the temporary fire that Putin declared, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zenskyy He accused Moscow of trying to create a false appearance of honoring the truce. He said that while the air attacks and missiles had slowed down at least, their forces recorded 59 separate cases of Russian bombings and five attacks along the 600 mile front line, which extends from the borders from north to the south or east of Ukraine.
“In practice, Putin does not have total control over his army, or the situation shows that in Russia, they have no intention of making a genuine movement to end the war, and they are only interested in a favorable provercy,” he wrote.
The Unilateral Putin statement of another high fire occurs in the midst of the intense pressure of the Trump administration in kyiv and Moscow to reach an agreement to end the fight in the three -year war caused by the large -scale invasion of February 24, February 24, 2022.
On Saturday, Zenskyy and President Trump With about 15 minutes in the Basilica of San Pedro go ahead or Pope Francis’s funeral.
After the meeting, Trump seemed to have changed his tone in Ukraine and the war, saying that Zenskyy is ready to make a peace agreement to end the war. He also criticized Russia for his recent attacks in Ukraine, even threatening with bank or secondary sanctions to Moscow in a real social position.
“We had a good meeting, it was a beautiful food,” Trump told journalists outside the White House on Sunday, recognizing that Zenskyy has a “difficult path ahead.”
When asked if he trusted Putin, Mr. Trump replied: “He will know in about two weeks,” without giving more details.
Last week, Vice President JD Vance also warned that Putin and Zenskyy must reach an agreement or the Trump administration would end their efforts to forge a durable fire. It was the Second Warning of the Trump Administration In less than a week, despite Mr. Trump’s frequent promises before his second term, that would be the war immediately.
“We have issued a very explicit proposal to both Russians and Ukrainians, and it is time for them to say yes or that the United States moves away from this process,” Vance told reporters.
A couple of days after Vance’s warning, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov He told Margaret Brennan by CBS News That the Kremlin was “ready to reach an agreement” with the United States in Ukraine, but that some elements still needed to be “adjusted.”
“The president of the United States believes, and I think that we’re right, that we are moving in the right direction,” Lavrov said in an interview on Thursday in “Face the Nation Margaret Brennan.”
Lavrov refused to say what details were discussed in the United States negotiations in Russia, or if he believed that an agreement was incoming.
Russia you have long said it is open to a a negotiated end to the war, but it has refused to sacrifice any concessions publicly, and the kremlin routinely insists that any ceasefire must ofal with What putin considers the “root on the henpine and the henpine and the hosty of -spepine and the Henpine and the Henpine and the Hole of -fayed or the host, The Heal, The “Root on the host, The” root on the “root in the” root in the “root” in the root “at the root” at the root “in the” root “at the root” at the root “in the” root “in the” root “in the root” in the root “in the root” in the root “in the root” in the root “in the root” in the root ” Root of the “root” Bamed Bamed blamed. His own order of the invasion of a neighboring nation.
Trump has sometimes echoed the Kremlin rhetoric about the causes of war, and the senior administration officials have made it clear that they believe that Ukraine will have to produce part of the territory that Russia has given control of the last decade to end the fighting. While some White House officials have said that Russia will also have to make concessions, it is still an uncle what the Trump administration will demand to Putin to reach a lasting truce.
