After three days of calm, this Sunday they have returned, where Russian drones have caused some damage to two outskirts. It is the main sign that shows the end of the unilateral truce decreed by Russia – which accuses its enemy of not having respected – between Thursday and Saturday, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The capital had remained oblivious to attacks that, according to the military sources consulted by the country. Three people have died under Russian fire this Saturday in the northern region of Sumi, according to local authorities.
In the diplomatic sand, certain advances are glimpsed after the high -level meeting between European leaders and President Volodimir Zelenski on Saturday, in which. While continuing to bombard, the response of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, with the Ukrainians in Türkiye. The president of that country, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, considers it “a historical turning point.”
The Turkish president has collected the glove again in his role as a mediator and accepted the proposal, while stating that he is ready, as Putin already, French president, Emmanuel Macron, in two telephone conversations, has recognized himself. On the other hand, in his first Sunday message to the crowd in the Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano, he has asked for peace in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The sirens have sounded in kyiv a few hours after they left the Ukrainian capital in an impromptu summit to try to move towards the end of the war and during which they called the president of the United States, Donald Trump. , said the republican leader in a statement published on social networks.
The negotiations proposed by Putin are “a first step, but it is not enough,” Macron has reacted after descending from the train that has taken him throughout the night from kyiv to Poland, because the Ukrainian airspace is still closed. “We must remain firm with the Americans and say that the high fire is unconditional, and then we can talk about the rest,” he told several reporters. Macron considers that Putin tries to gain time while he continues to attack Ukraine and that this is “unacceptable.” “There can be no dialogue if at the same time it is bombarded to civilians,” added the president in a statement published in the social network X.
The new German Chancellor, the conservative Friedrich Merz, has repeated the same idea of Macron and Tusk: “We hope that Moscow now accepts a high fire that allows real dialog Diplomatic Merz has considered a “good sign” the will to dialogue that Putin has shown, but stressed that “this is far from enough,” he reports Gloria Rodríguez-Pina.
In that line, the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, who also traveled to kyiv this Saturday, has insisted on the need to, beyond the Russian offer to begin negotiating peace on May 15. “Ukraine is prepared. No more victims!” He has written in X. The day proposed by Putin to initiate conversations with the intermediation of Turkey, on May 15, agrees with an informal meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers planned precisely in the Turkish city of Antalya the next 14 and 15.
Turkish mediation
It would not be the first time that Erdogan, who has maintained contacts throughout the entire contest with kyiv and Moscow, was erected in a hinge leader to try to reach an agreement. Türkiye was precisely the last country that gathered them face to face. The appointment took place a few weeks after Putin launched the great invasion of his neighboring country in February 2022. Subsequently, it was the main piece in. “A historical inflection point has been reached in the efforts to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, and this opportunity must take advantage, and Turkey is willing to provide all kinds of support, including the organization of negotiations, to achieve a high fire and a lasting peace,” said Macron on the phone.
In any case, there is a climate of a certain optimism, even among the leaders of Ukraine and Russia. Movements between the international community and the faced parties that help bring positions can be intuited. Zelenski has applauded as a “positive sign” the fact that his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, “begins to consider the end of the war” has manifested himself in that sense, although he has done so asking that the two countries retake direct negotiations without referring to the essential priority of kyiv, which is a lasting truce. “We hope Russia confirms a high fire – completed, lasting and reliable – starting tomorrow, May 12, and Ukraine is ready to meet,” he said in his X account.
Andri Yermak, Chief of Cabinet of Zelenski, has insisted that the first thing Moscow has to do is confirm its commitment to that 30 -day truce that would begin this Monday before advancing in Thursday’s appointment. First you have to get that stop the fire, “and then everything else,” Yermak has published on the Telegram social network, in line with what was demanded by the president. “Russia should not hide its desire to continue the war with vague statements,” added the chief of cabinet.
In the last hours, and exceeded that period of high the fire announced unilaterally from Moscow, the local authorities have denounced the launch of up to 108 drones on the east, the north, the south and the center of the country, of which they have managed to intercept 60. The alarms before a possible attack have also jumped in Járkov, the second Ukrainian city and close to the Russian border. The bombings have also hit the Sumi region, where the dead amount to three.
