The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, ordered a surprise of high fire from May 8 to 10, coinciding with the commemorations of the Victory Day of World War II of Moscow, Kremlin said Monday.
Moscow said he expected Kyiv to issue a similar order, and that he was ready to respond to any violation of the possible detention in the fight.
Putin made a similar order to stop combat on Easter, a truce that both parties accused the other of raping hundreds of times, but led to a temporal reduction in the fight.
“The Russian side is declaring the fire during the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, from May 7 to 8 to midnight from May 10 to 11. All combat operations will be suspended during this period,” said the Kremlin in a statement.
“Russia believes that the Ukrainian side should follow this example. In case of rapes of the truce by the Ukrainian side, the Russian armed forces will give an adequate and effective response,” he added.
Putin last month rejected an US proposal for a high and unconditional fire of 30 days that had been accepted by Ukraine.
kyiv and his European sponsors accused Putin of announcing the 30 -hour Easter truce as a public relations exercise and said he had little desire for peace.
Since he launched his Ukraine offensive in February 2022, Russia has taken large parts of four Ukrainian regions and claimed them as its own, in addition to Crimea, which it attached in 2014.
‘Touching me’
The order of a high Putin fire reaches the beginning of what the United States indicated that it would be a crucial week for the possibilities of a high fire that could determine how long Washington continues to try to negotiate an agreement.
After a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, Donald Trump questioned whether the Russian leader took peace seriously.
“There was no reason for Putin to shoot missiles in civil areas, cities and towns, in recent days. It makes me think that he may not want to stop the war, he is just taking advantage of me,” Trump said in Truth Social.
The Russian missiles have killed dozens of civilians during the last month in large -scale attacks in the hometown of Zelensky of Kryvyi Rig, the northeast city of Sumy and the capital kyiv.
On Monday, Russia had said she was ready to negotiate directly with Ukraine, but that recognition of her claims on five Ukrainian regions, including Crimea, were “imperative” to resolve the conflict.
Ukraine has denounced annexations such as illegal land and says that he will never recognize them, while European officials warned that accepting Moscow’s demands establishes a dangerous precedent that could lead to a future Russian aggression.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper O Globe Published on Monday that “we are still open to negotiations.”
“But the ball is not on our court. Until now, kyiv has not demonstrated its ability to negotiate,” he said, added that Moscow’s position on the conflict was “well known.”
“The International Recognition of the Property of Russia of Crimea, Sebastopol, the Popular Republic of Donetsk, the Popular Republic Lugansk, the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions is imperative,” he said, using the names of the Kremlin for the Ukrainian regions.
Zelensky said last Friday that Ukraine “would not legally recognize any temporarily occupied territories”, and has previously called the “incomprehensible” demilitarization demand.
Kursk resumed
Trump, who boasted before his inauguration that he could stop the assault from Russia to Ukraine in “24 hours”, launched a diplomatic offensive to stop fighting after assuming the position in January.
But the White House has expressed frustration with both sides, since the conflict that has devastated strips of eastern Ukraine and killed tens of thousands of people dragged.
Russia and Ukraine have not had direct conversations about the fight since the beginning of the Moscow offensive in 2022.
Monday morning, a Russian attack against a Ukrainian village near the Pokrovsk first -line city killed a married couple and another local resident, regional prosecutors said.
Meanwhile, Russia during the weekend announced that he had taken total control of his Kursk region with the help of North Korea’s troops, more than eight months after kyiv launched an assault on cross -border ground.
Putin thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong on Monday for his help with the operation, which has denied Kyiv a key negotiation chip in future conversations with Moscow.
The Russian army said Monday that he had taken control of the Kamianka village in the Northeast of Kharkiv region, in his last advance in the battlefield.
