Russia resumed his attacks in Ukraine this Monday, April 21, after the expiration of a high fragile fire on the occasion of Easter on Monday, April 21, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he wants “a clear response” of Moscow in his truce proposal in the attacks pointing to energy sites.
His Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the same day expressed doubts about this project presented by Kyiv, without formally excluding the high fire he had decreed last weekend.
“All this deserves to be careful. Perhaps bilaterally, as a result of the dialogues. We are not excluding this. Therefore, we will analyze all this and make the appropriate decisions,” he told the Russian press.
His spokesman Dmitri Peskov clarified that Vladimir Putin was talking about possible bilateral consultations with Ukraine, which would be the first since the spring of 2022, shortly after the beginning of the vast Russian offensive, and peace conversations had failed.
A Ukrainian delegation in London
At the same time, Donald Trump said he was waiting for an “agreement” in the week between the two belligerents. Diplomatic negotiations in US President’s initiative to end this war that made tens of thousands of deaths last two months, without concrete results.
Volodymyr Zelensky in this context announced Monday, after a telephone exchange with the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, that the Ukrainian representatives would be in London “on Wednesday” for discussions in order to obtain a “high unconditional fire” against Russia, then “real and lasting peace”, considering that “Ukraine United States is ready to advance as important as possible.”
A meeting with representatives of these countries must take place this week in the British capital, without their date being formalized.
In his daily report, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said on Monday that Russia had strikes on military objectives in 74 places in Ukraine after “the end” of Alto El Fuego.
Volodymyr Zelensky, who had accepted the truce announced by Moscow, had assured Sunday night that the Russian forces had violated it “more than 2,000 times” during the day, while indicating that they had not proceeded to any air attacks during this period.
He also proposed an extension of 30 days of the suspension of the strikes of drones and long -range missiles on the civil infrastructure. In response to this proposal, Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine about Mortelina’s objectives in civil places on Monday.
Therefore, he defended the shooting in the Russian missiles in the Ukrainian city of Soumy, on April 13, which had left at least 35 dead, claiming that he had signed up for a medal discount, in a “civil” installation, to the Ukrainian soldiers who “committed crimes” in the Russian region of Koursk.
Decrease in combat intensity
In kyiv, where an anti -Elert alert resonated for an hour at dawn on Monday due to a threat of drones, Ukrainians interviewed by AFP say they are surprised and relieved by this brief respite, but do not believe in a lasting truce.
“It was positive” “rest even one day” because “people are exhausted,” said Viktor Danyltchouk, a permission soldier, while judging “a quick agreement with Moscow” impossible “because” the enemy continues to attack. “
Several Ukrainian soldiers deployed in several sectors of the front noticed a considerable decrease in the intensity of Russian attacks on Sunday, without stopping completely.
On Russia’s side, the Ministry of Defense had reported failed attempts from the Ukrainians to “attack the Russian positions” in several areas of the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian authorities have also mentioned the Ukrainian military actions against the Russian border regions of Britak, Koursk and Belgorod, in which “civilians have been killed or wounded.”
IMPOSE NEGOTIATIONS
In a message transmitted in his Truth social network, Donald Trump, however, said Sunday with the hope of an agreement “in the week” between Russia and Ukraine: “Both can make good offers with the United States of America, which are booming and winning a fortune,” he wrote.
When asked about these statements, Dmitri Peskov said on Monday that Kremlin wanted “work with the American part” bring “results”, but did not give details about possible conversations this week.
On Friday, Donald Trump had threatened to retire from the negotiations, due to the lack of rapid progress in the separate discussions that his lieutenants participated in mid -February with kyiv and with Moscow.
Cross accusations of rape of Pascale’s truce in any case demonstrate the difficulty of imposing a brief abandonment of hostilities in this armed conflict.
Source: BFM TV
