It is a unilateral initiative, which Moscow defines as “humanitarian”, but that It is not the result of an agreement with Kiev, nor the result of a turning point in negotiationswhich for the moment have not produced significant results. To date, Putin has always refused to accept an unconditional fire, subjecting it to the stop of the western military supplies to Ukraine and at the end of the mobilization by the Ukrainian government of Volodymyr Zelensky.
The announcement came a few hours later an escalation of attacks long -haul between the two countries. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, in the night the armed forces fell 119 Ukrainian drones, largely in the Russian region of Bryansk, on the border with Ukraine. In Kiev and in many other Ukrainian cities the anti -aircraft sirens have resonated, but there are no victims.
Trump, on the weekend, on the sidelines of the funeral of Pope Francis, expressed doubts about the real will of Moscow to negotiateaccusing the Russian forces of continuing to hit civil areas even during the interviews. Words that have not gone unnoticed in Russia, where the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov He tried to tend his hand. In short, the negotiations “continue” but the work “cannot be done in public form, but only in discreet form”, its version. On the European front, the French president Emmanuel Macron, together with Zelensky and Trump, reiterated his commitment to seek a convergence that leads to a stable truce. “A truce is the preliminary condition for a peace negotiation that respects the interests of Ukraine and Europe,” said a French diplomat.
The truce announced by Putin for the anniversary of the victory over Nazism, therefore, risks being more symbolic than substantial. A unilateral gesture that does not change the strategic framework and which, in the context of a war now entered in its third year, leaves more than one question open on the future of Europe.
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