Ukrainian counterofferte to the US for peace negotiations with Russia suggests a small opening for territory negotiation, which the Volodimir Zelenski government rejected flat so far. According to the text, published Friday by Reuters, Ukraine demands, first of all, a high “complete and unconditional” fire both by land and sea and air.
The letter does not assume that Ukraine will recognize as Russians the territories occupied by the invading army, but admits for the first time that it can be discussed over territory. The proposal insists that the surveillance of compliance with the high fire is carried out by the US “with the support of third countries” and claims that Ukraine recovers control of the Zaporiyia nuclear power plant, among other demands. The negotiation on territory must begin, according to the approach, on the basis of the current front line.
This proposal will test the Russian reluctance to give in the negotiation, which to date has hindered, with maximum claims, attempts to achieve high partial fires.
The Ukrainian offer is known on the day when the United States emissary, Steve Witkoff, has landed in Moscow to celebrate consultations with the Kremlin about the White House Peace Plan for the war initiated with the invasion of Ukraine. Witkoff already talks with Vladimir Putin in what is his fourth meeting in the last three months, the Russian government has reported, which has published a video of the greeting between them.
The meeting takes place after Trump this Thursday, In an unusual message, he demanded Putin The end of the bombings against Ukraine after an attack in kyiv that left at least 12 dead and 90 injured. “Vladimir, for!”, Wrote the American president in Truth Social, and described the act of “unnecessary” and having occurred in “bad moment.”
Trump has raised the pressure to seal a peace agreement and returns to anticipate that the next few days will be very important, with an eye on April 30, when the 100 days of his second presidency are completed. At the same time, he claims to be convinced that Putin will listen to his call not to launch new mass air attacks, although the Kremlin leader does not tend to be afraid.
This morning, Russia has sent more than 60 drones against Ukraine and has caused three dead in the town of Pavlograd, in the Dinpropetrovsk region. In addition, less than 48 hours after meeting with Witkoff, just two weeks ago, Moscow fired a missile in the center of Sumi that ended the lives of 35 people and left more than 100 injured in the middle of the Domingo de Ramos.
It is the fourth time that the White House emissary travels to Russia in just over two months. The last was on April 11, in St. Petersburg. On that occasion Trump’s envoy dedicated an almost reverential gesture to his host, Putin, when he took the right hand to the heart when they greeted themselves, in a detail that many analysts interpreted as a sample of submission.
The appointment transcended few details. It is known that Kirill Dmitriev, the director of the Russian Sovereign Fund, were present, that hours before he had gathered privately with Witkoff, and presidential advisor Yuri Ushakov. Witkoff himself gave some details in the Fox News chain about the development of the conversation: he said he had the impression that he was “emerging” a peace agreement based on the discussion on the Ukrainian regions that Russia was annexed in its constitution and on the security guarantees that both sides ask.
This week the Financial Times He has published that in that meeting there was also talk of the possibility of freezing the line of the front where he is currently. Putin would resign to claim the parts of the occupied Ukrainian regions that he does not control in exchange for Trump to accept, among other things, that the Crimean Peninsula is Russian, a red line for kyiv. According to the latest estimate of Russian President, his army dominates 99% of Lugansk, and 70% of Donetsk, Jersón and Zaporiyia.
In fact, Witkoff, who has always demonstrated good harmony with Putin, went further to advise the American president to recognize the Russian sovereignty of these four territories. As explained by Trump administration to Reuters, the emissary suggested that this would be the fastest way to get fire.
Judging by Trump’s words, for the White House, the Russian proposal would already mean a step more than enough, since he assured that Putin had tried his willingness to move towards peace to “not to conquer the entire country”, in reference to Ukraine. From his point of view, this would have been “a fairly large concession.”
Zelenski’s refusal to discuss the status of Crimea has precipitated the last clash between him and the American leader, who on Wednesday accused the Ukrainian president of hindering peace by not assuming that the Peninsula has been under Russian control since 2014 and recriminating him that Ukraine did not fight for her.
So far, Kremlin has shown a silence as prudent as strategic to the information published in Western media about the US Peace Plan. “We cannot and do not want to comment on any filtration,” presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said Thursday, who did not hide the satisfaction that Trump states that Crimea is a Russian territory. “It corresponds completely with our understanding and what we have been saying for a long time,” he explained.
Likewise, Russian Foreign Minister Serguéi Lavrov, in an unusual interview for an American media, the CBS chain, said “being prepared” to reach an agreement with the USA, but added that “some elements need to be completed.” The leader of the Russian negotiating team, with the permission of Dmitriev, who has his own agenda, insisted in the compliments the US president. “He is the only world leader who has recognized the need to eliminate the fundamental causes of this situation,” said Lavrov. This is how Kremlin synthesizes the reasons that led him to launch a large -scale invasion in 2022.
One of these “fundamental causes” that Witkoff already mentioned after his last meeting with Putin and that should be discussed this Friday are the security guarantees for Ukraine. According to Bloomberg, the US will require Russia to admit kyiv’s right to have an army and a defense industry as part of the peace agreement. This would imply that Putin renounced one of its declared objectives, the “demilitarization” of Ukraine.
A high command of the Russian army dies in a car bomb attack
Coinciding with the visit of Witkoff, Russian Lieutenant Yaroslav Moskalik, high command of the 59 -year -old General, died today in the explosion of a car bomb in the Moscow region, according to the Russian Instruction Committee (CIR) and collects EFE.
“According to preliminary data, as a result of the explosion, Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik died,” said Svetlana Petrenko, spokesman for the CIR, to local media.
Moskalik, deputy chief of the Russian Armed Forces Operations Command, died when he passed by a Volkswagen Golf in which an explosive artifact was remotely detonated, according to Mash and Shot, two Telegram channels.
“The reason for the explosion was an explosive artifact. In the place of the incident, fragments of the artifact were found,” a police source told the Tass agency.
The sources cited by another channel, Baza, speak of a gas bottle such as the reason for the explosion, equivalent to 300 grams of trilita, after which the Instruction Committee initiated a criminal case for murder.
The attack took place in the courtyard of an urbanization built east of the Russian capital especially for retired military.
In December of last year, Lieutenant General Igor Kirílov, head of the Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense of Russia, also died in a bomb attack when leaving his home.
Then, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, described said attack as a “serious failure” of the security services, which held the agents of the Ukrainian secret services.
Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB) said shortly after that he had frustrated a series of attacks against senior military leaders in the country and reported the arrest of four Russian citizens in the framework of the investigation.
Source: www.eldiario.es
