A couple of minutes before the beginning this Saturday, the Ukrainian anti -aircraft defense systems followed the track to several drones. Many Ukrainian citizens wondered in messages on the networks, where they pour their anger after three years of large -scale invasion, how long that trucexed Easter truce would last. With the cessation of hostilities underway, the alerts re -buzz. Although attacks against civilians were not reported during the pause, the Ukrainian high command reported this Sunday that the enemy held artillery fire and with unmanned devices both in the Eastern Front and in the Russian region of Kursk. The Kremlin encrypted the Ukrainian attacks during this impasse in a thousand. A new failed exercise of high fire that affects the rawness of a war that does not stop. That despite the dozens of meetings, trips and calls to the negotiation held after.
Nor have they completely prospered, nor the best proposal on the dialogue table, a period of 30 days without violence on all fronts, it still has consensus. Partly because of the nature of the conflict, very alive, partly because of the inconsistency of the high fire itself. On the 16th, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Ukraine Georgii Tikhii reported that the Russian army had broken the non -aggression agreement to energy infrastructure on 30 times, in cities such as Jersón, Poltava and Mikolaiv – generally with drones -, since it was announced on March 25 after the United States with the two sides.
Moscow, on the other hand, has accused the Ukrainian army of hitting facilities such as the Sudzha Gas Pipeline, in the Russian province of Kursk. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov reported Friday that the moratorium on the energy sector had expired, but did not have new Putin instructions.
Alto El Fuego monitoring
In these pacts there was a starting problem: Russian and Ukrainian negotiators gave Washington different lists of what they thought had to be protected. That note of the Ukrainian spokesman was very significant. After denouncing the breach of the truce, Tikhii said he was sharing with his allies, including the United States, each of the violations. There is no independent mechanism on paper that monitors the pact, as there has been in truces in other conflicts. RoughWashington proposes quickly, the parties can accept a boat soon and then the doubts arrive.
This happened with the section on the black Sea also agreed on March 25. The United States published the same text agreed with each of the parties (guaranteeing navigation, eliminating the use of force in the waters …). Subsequently, the Kremlin slipped that, in addition, he wanted the lifting of sanctions such as those that weigh against Rosselkhozbank, the bank specialized in the trade of its agricultural products, the main departure on its route to the Bosphorus Strait.
in addition to bombarding the rest of the territory with projectiles thrown from the waters, which would break the truce.
After three years of great Russian offensive, no one in Ukraine believes the Russian neighbor. They serve as an example the words of two deputies of very different parties, in recent conversation with El País: one is Oleksii Goncharenko, a parliamentarian of European solidarity: “Putin does not want peace, he wants to continue with the war. He tries to win time and play these games [las treguas]. And it is successful. ”Another is Kira Rudik, leader of the Golos Formation (voice):“ There is no fact that allows us to believe in the illusion that Putin wants peace, or [Donald] Trump has achieved anything with what he can tell his citizens who has fulfilled his promises. ”
The US administration was able to carry out the pact on energy and the sea two weeks after it failed in the attempt of a general truce for a period of 30 days, offered in Yeda (Saudi Arabia) to the delegations of the two sides. Ukraine accepted; The Russian, no. Putin himself, a few days after the appointment, put conditions again: to stop foreign assistance and mobilization and training of new soldiers. The non -Moscow has cost his life since then to dozens of civilians in and Sumi.
As the Foreign Minister Ukraine, Andrii Sibiga, pointed out on Saturday, Kremlin had opted for a 30 -hour truce, Easter – the Ukrainian leader challenged Putin to prolong her beyond this period – instead of 30 days. From that March 11 in which Washington launched the offer, both the Ukrainian and the American government demand Moscow, each in its own way, to adhere to the formula.
Recently explained Zelenski to twenty journalists who defends a high “complete and unconditional” fire, for a time that could be one month. “If there is a stop the fire for a time that is not clear, we will have a frozen conflict,” he said. In that period, according to kyiv, the United States, with the help of other allies such as France and the United Kingdom, at the head of the group of countries willing to send uniformed to give safety guarantees to kyiv, would monitor the truce.
Ultimatum de Washington
However, Russia still does not answer affirmatively. Looking ahead, the Trump administration has shown some irritation. This Friday, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said from Paris that, if in “days” they had no answers and evidence that the peace process is possible ,. Bated door, yes, there is more talk of more things. As reported by the Bloomberg agency from what was transferred by Rubio in the capital gala to its partners in France and the United Kingdom – an event that finally sat Europeans and American around the peace process – at the Dialogue Board with the Kremlin there are issues such as the uprising of some sanctions against Russia and the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian troops.
“We are willing to do everything within our reach to achieve the high fire,” Zelenski said in that conversation with reporters. But kyiv also maintains red lines in the current negotiation. One of them is, without a doubt, the one that is related to the regions under Russian control. Ukraine will not be able to recover everything that has given up in more than 11 years of invasion from the East. But there are draft nuances: one thing is to recognize in fact The loss of a certain territory and another, very different, deliver it of iure. The Ukrainian government would opt for the first, because it will never recognize Russian control over its territories.
To talk about this, American and European diplomats, from France, the United Kingdom and Germany, the faces will be seen again with a Ukrainian negotiating team in London.
