Gavriil Grigorov; Sputnik; Kremlin Pool / EPA
The Russian President proposed “direct and without previous conditions” negotiations with Kiev this Sunday. Zelenskyy wants to cease fire starting on Monday.
Ukraine said today that Russia launched an attack with more than 100 drones, shortly after finishing the unilateral three-day truce decreed by Moscow, which pushed to the local midnight.
“In the early hours of May 11, the enemy attacked with 108 shaved attack drones and other types of drones,” the Ukrainian Air Force said, claiming to have slaughtered 60 devices.
On Saturday night, air alerts sounded in many Ukrainian regions, including Kiev.
O Kremlin had unilaterally decreed a three -day truce to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi Germany victory, Celebrated on Friday with great pomp in the Red Square of Moscow.
These drone attacks occur in a context of intense European diplomatic efforts, supported by the United States, to obtain a 30-day “complete and unconditional” “complete and unconditional” ceasefire, otherwise Russia will face new “massive sanctions”.
This Sundaythe Russian President proposed “direct and without previous conditions” negotiations Between Moscow and Kiev, already on Thursday in Istanbul, postponing for these conversations any possibility of establishing the ceasefire required by the allies of the Ukrainian head of state, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Putin did not exclude the hypothesis that a ceasefire be discussed In conversations with Kiev, but stressed that these discussions should focus on the “deep causes of conflict.”
The Ukrainian President in the X at Kremlin’s statements: “It’s a positive sign that the Russians finally began to end the war end. The whole world was waiting for a long time. And the first step to truly doing is a ceasefire,” he wrote.
“There is no reason to continue killing people every day. We hope Russia confirms a ceasefire-complete, lasting and reliable-starting tomorrow, May 12, and Ukraine will be ready to meet ”it still says.
Moscow had justified the launch of the offensive in February 2022 with the desire to “disinal” to Ukraine, opposing Kiev’s approach to the West and the reinforcement of the NATO to the Russian borders.
Russian forces currently occupy about 20% of the Ukrainian territory.
