Ukraine and his allies are ready for a “high and unconditional fire” with Russia for at least 30 days from Monday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, said on Saturday, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is pressing for direct conversations next week.
Their comments occurred when the leaders from four main European countries visited kyiv, pressing Moscow to a truce and launching peace conversations to end the conflict of almost three years. They followed what Sybiha said was a “constructive” phone call among the leaders of France, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zenskyy.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, said the group had “spoken with President Trump together. We agree on our common vision of our additional actions.”
At a press conference on Saturday, Putin said that Moscow has repeatedly presented the initiatives of Alto El Fuego and said that Kyiv has sabotado them. He also proposed to resume direct conversations without previous conditions next Thursday, May 15 in Istanbul.
Putin said the direct conversations “would eliminate the root causes of the conflict” and “to achieve the restoration of long -term lasting peace,” according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, on Saturday he marked the last day of a high unilateral fire declared by Russia that Ukraine says that Kremlin forces have repeatedly violated.
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In March, the United States proposes an unrelated and limited 30 -day trucethat Ukraine accepted, but the Kremlin has a hero for the terms more of his taste.
The leaders of France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom arrived together at the kyiv train station, and with Zenskyy shortly after to join a ceremony in the kyiv Independence Square, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. They turned on candles in a mouth flag memorial for fallen Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.
The visit marked the first time that the leaders of the four countries have traveled together to Ukraine, while Friedrich Merz is making his first visit to Ukraine as the new Chancellor of Germany.
Sybiha described the Russian truce as a “farce” on Thursday, accusing the Russian forces to violate it about 700 times less than one day after it formally entered into force. Both parties also said that the attacks against their troops had continued on Thursday.
“We reiterate our support for President Trump’s calls for a peace agreement and ask Russia to stop obstructing efforts to ensure lasting peace,” said leaders in a joint statement. “Next to the United States, we ask Russia to accept a full and unconditional fire of 30 days to create the space for conversations about just and load peace.”
Trump has pressed both parties to quickly reach a conflict agreement, but while Zenskyy used to be an American plan for an initial 30 -day stop to hostilities, Russia has not signed. Instead, it has maintained attacks along the front line of approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers), including mortal strikes in residential areas without obvious military objectives.
On Saturday morning, local officials in the northern region of Sumy of Ukraine said that Russian bombing in the last day killed three residents and wounded four more. Another civilian man died in the place on Saturday when a Russian drone hit Kherson’s southern city, according to the regional government. Oleksandr Prokudin.
Speaking to journalists in kyiv, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said: “What is happening with Poland, Germany and Britain is a historical moment for European defense and towards greater independence for our security. Obvián, but it is a power.”
Trump said last week that he doubts that Russia’s Putin wants to finish his fight in Ukraine, expressing a new skepticism that you can soon reach a peace agreement, and insinuated more sanctions against Russia.
The progress in the resolution of the conflict has seemed difficult to achieve in the months since Trump returned to the White House, and his previous claims of imminent advances have not come true. Trump has previously pressed to Ukraine to give in territory to Russia to end the conflict, Threatening to move away if an agreement becomes too difficult.
The European allies of Ukraine see the fight as fundamental for the security of the continent, and the pressure is now increasing to find ways to support kyiv militarily, regardless of whether Trump retires.
Ukrainian presidential assistant Andrii Yermak, who with European leaders at the kyiv main train station, wrote on Telegram on Saturday: “There is a lot of work, many issues to discuss. We need to end this war with a single peace patient.”
Later in the day, the leaders began to organize a virtual meeting together with Zenskyy to update other leaders on the progress that was made for a future called “Coalition of the provisions” that would help the Armed Forces of Ukraine after a peace agreement to the Peace Agreement and the Pacific Agreement and the Pacific Treatment and the Pacific Treatment and the Pacific Treatment and the Peace Peace Agreement with the Peace.
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