French diplomacy chief described the “marketing move” on Tuesday Jean-Noel Barrot Easter ceasefire in the fighting in Ukraine declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Barrot, this step was aimed at softening US President Donald Trumpinforms TASR, according to the AFP report.
“The ceasefire during Easter, which Putin) was kind of unexpectedly declared, the marketing move was aimed at ensuring that President Trump would not start to be impatient and angry,” French Foreign Minister for Franceinfo said the day after Russia, after the sudden end of the fragile ceasefire, took attacks from the air to Ukraine.
According to AFP, these are contrary to Trump’s hopes to a larger ceasefire between the two parties of the conflict. The White House chief said the agreement could be reached this week. However, he had previously threatened that the US could abandon their efforts to ensure peace in this more than three years of conflict if there was no progress in negotiations.
Representatives of the USA, Ukraine, Britain and France are planning to meet this week in London to renew the ceasefire negotiations after last week’s meeting in Paris, In which the head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio and Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff also attended.
