The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has announced a brief high fire in Ukraine until Monday, April 21 on the occasion of Orthodox Easter. The president’s statements occur only one day after the United States notice so that both Russia and Ukraine demonstrate their “commitment” for a ceasefire and advanced that it would abandon the conversations if there was no progress between the two countries “in a matter of days.”
This has been indicated by the Kremlin this Saturday, which has referred to a “cessation of all military activities” by the Moscow Army that will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday and will last until midnight on Monday, April 21.
Putin, who made this announcement after meeting with the Chief of the General Staff, Valeri Guerásimov, expressed his confidence that Ukraine joins the Easter truce, Kremlin reported on his telegram channel.
In statements collected by Associated Press, the president has added that he hopes that “the Ukrainian part will follow” his “example.” “At the same time our troops must be prepared to repel possible rapes of the truce and provocations of the enemy, as well as any aggressive action,” he added in his message.
In this regard, he said that kyiv violated more than a hundred times the 30 -day energy truce that Moscow declared unilaterally on March 18 and that Ukraine joined a week later through the United States.
“Our decision on a Pascual truce will demonstrate how the will of the kyiv regime and its desire and also the ability to comply with the agreements and participate in the peace negotiation process to eliminate the original causes of the Ukrainian crisis,” he said.
In turn, he stressed that Russia “always” has been willing to participate in the peace negotiations and greeted the attempts of the US president, Donald Trump, but also of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, and the countries of the BRICS group that “are supporters of a peaceful and fair solution of the Ukrainian crisis.”
Putin, who is expected to go tonight to the Pascual vigil in the Cathedral of Christ Salvador in Moscow, made this announcement after Trump’s ultimatum, who warned that if in “question of days” there were no progress in negotiations with Russians and Ukrainians, Washington could leave the peace process in Ukraine.
“We need to determine now, in a matter of days, if this peace agreement is viable in the short term, because if it is not, then we will continue with something else,” said Secretary of State, Marco Rubio this Friday. In recent days the conversations for a high fire between the two countries have been spared, after they committed to the US to a ceasefire in the black sea, in a reissue of the agreement of the grain that was in force between July 2022 and July 2023.
However, as he did after opening a high 30 -day fire in Ukraine, the Kremlin has put a series of previous conditions that hinder compliance, delaying conversations with almost insurmountable obstacles to each assignment.
Zelenski accepts the truce
The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, accepted on Saturday the truce raised by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for Orthodox Easter until midnight from Sunday to Monday, but the Ukrainian leader proposed to take her beyond April 20.
“If a complete truce is maintained, Ukraine proposes to expand it beyond Easter Day, on April 20,” Zelenski wrote in his social network account X, where he pointed out that “if Russia is now suddenly willing to really compromise in a format of total and unconditional silence, Ukraine will act accordingly.”
Zelenski was willing to have “silence in response to silence” on the battlefield and “defensive attacks in response to attacks.” However, he also showed a skeptical tone, since, according to him, “we must not trust the words from Moscow.”
“We know very well how Moscow manipulates and we are prepared for anything. The Ukrainian defense forces will act rationally, responding with the same currency. Each Russian attack will receive an adequate response,” Zelenski said.
Source: www.eldiario.es
