Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelsky announced after high -level interviews in Kiev that the unconditional ceasefire must begin on Monday (12 May).
“We agreed on Monday, May 12, that it had to start an unconditional ceasefire,” Zelsky told reporters at a press conference. He stressed that Reuters reported that the ceasefire needed to cover the “air, sea and land” and warned that if Moscow would reject, Ukraine and its allies would follow harder sanctions focused on the Russian energy and banking sectors.
“Warm” calls with Trump
In a surprising step in Zelena and guest European leaders – Prime Minister of UK Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk – created a joint telephone call to US President Donald Trump.
According to the news agency P
Ukraine Foreign Minister Andria Sybiha published a picture of leaders who huddled around the phone On x, writing: “All five leaders had a fertile call with @potus focused on peaceful efforts.”
Russia is looking for “nuance”
While the West advocates the unconditional ceasefire, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia supports a 30 -day ceasefire, but emphasized that it must include certain “nuances”. He did not process the specifics of Russia’s conditions.
United European Front
In front of the summit in Kiev, Starmer, Macron, Tusk and Merz issued a joint statement supporting the Communist Peace Initiative and Support Trump.
“We repeat our support for President Trump’s calls for a peace agreement and call on Russia to stop preventing efforts to secure permanent peace,” the statement read.
The leaders also committed: “We are inviting Russia together with the US to agree with the complete and unconditional 30 -day ceasefire to create room for conversations about fair and lasting peace.”
The leaders said they were “ready to support peace interviews as soon as possible”.
However, they warned that they would continue to “grow pressure on the Russian war machine” until Moscow disagrees with a permanent ceasefire.
“We are clear that bloodshed must end, Russia must stop its illegal invasion and Ukraine must be able to prosper as a safe, safe and sovereign nation within its internationally recognized borders for generations,” he added.
“We will continue to increase our support for Ukraine.”
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