The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, avoids accepting the high fire that kyiv proposes to stop the bleeding in Ukraine. In return, the Russian president has launched another proposal: to establish new direct negotiations with kyiv to “solve the deep causes” of the invasion he launched just over three years ago. Putin has announced nocturnally that he will propose this Sunday to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which Istanbul takes on May 15 some conversations “without previous conditions” between Russia and Ukraine.
a war, and we propose to resume the negotiations that were interrupted, and not for us, ”said Putin in allusion to the badly conversations of Turkey in March and April 2022, broken after the international community knew the massacre committed by Russian units in the city of Bucha.
The Russian president has pronounced his message around 1:30 on Sunday, more or less an hour and a half after the end of the alleged fire that unilaterally proclaimed to celebrate the victory day that commemorates the triumph of the allies in World War II. The Government of Volodimir Zelenski rejected the initiative and proposed a high 30 -day fire that Putin missed. Gathered in kyiv, they have demanded that Moscow comply with an unconditional truce of 30 days from Monday. Otherwise, Europe and the United States threaten to apply “mass sanctions” to Russia and “increase kyiv’s arms support.”
Putin has not spoken about the proposal of Alto El Fuego Europea at his press conference without questions to some international media. However, he has accused Ukraine of systematically violating the truces announced so far.
Repeated violations
The first, the truce on energy infrastructure that agreed with mediation in the United States in March. kyiv also accused Moscow then to repeatedly violate that fire, and just ended, the Russian army launched a massive bombing on Ukraine.
The second, the unilateral truce announced by Putin between May 7 and 10, that is, between last Thursday and this Saturday, during which it has received a couple of tens of international delegations in Moscow on the occasion of Victory Day, a “sacred” anniversary for the Kremlin.
“We do not rule out in the future the possibility of extending the duration of this truce. But, of course, it will be after analyzing what happened these days and how kyiv reacts to our proposal,” said the Russian leader.
The Ukrainian forces launched hundreds of drones on the Moscow region on the eve of Victory Day. This action caused the temporary closure of the airports of the capital and the suspension of hundreds of flights.
“We have never refused to dialogue with the Ukraine part,” Putin said in his speech. However, the Kremlin always insists that any conversation must solve what he considers “the deep causes” of his confrontation with kyiv. Beyond the international recognition of the territory occupied by Russia and that the West ceases its support for kyiv, when Putin speaks of “denazifying” and “disarming” Ukraine, refers to establishing an related government and leaving his defenseless army for any future eventuality.
President Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the prime ministers of Poland and the United Kingdom, Donald Tusk and Keir Starmer, met this Saturday in kyiv to address the next steps before the invasion of Ukraine. After their meeting they held a telephone conversation with the US president, Donald Trump, before launching his ultimatum to the Kremlin.
One of Putin’s objectives with his alleged willingness to talk is to prevent Washington from getting tired of holding bridges to the Kremlin. Trump has made concessions to the unthinkable Kremlin a few months ago, including trying to force Ukraine to renounce his territory as opposed to international laws, but Moscow not only has not complied with its unconditional truce, but intensified its bombing against Ukrainian cities.
“Our proposal is on the table,” Putin said. “The decision is now in the hands of the Ukrainian authorities and their supervisors, who, apparently guided by their personal political ambitions and not for the interests of their people, want to continue the war against Russia through the Ukrainian nationalists.”
