The Ukraine and its allies are ready for a “complete, unconditional ceasefire” with Russia for at least 30 days on Monday, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Saturday.
His remarks came when the leaders visited Kyiv’s four large European countries in the middle of a advance to Moscow, to agree to an armistice and to start peace talks about the almost three -year war. They followed what Sybiha said was a “constructive” phone call between them, US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Saturday is also the last day of a one -sided three -day ceasefire from Russia. Ukraine accuses the Kremlin’s powers of repeatedly violating the ceasefire.
In March, the United States proposed an immediate, limited 30-day ceasefire that Ukraine accepted, but the Kremlin reported that better conditions came up with better conditions.
The four European leaders came together at the Kyiv train station on Saturday and met with Zelenskyy shortly afterwards to take part in a ceremony of the independence quota, which marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. They lit candles in a temporary flagving monument for fallen Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who have been killed on February 24, 2022 since the invasion of Russia.
It is the first time that the heads of the four European countries traveled together to Ukraine. For Friedrich Merz it is his first visit to Ukraine as Germany’s new Chancellor.
“We repeat our support for President Trump’s demands for a peace agreement and ask Russia to no longer hinder the efforts to secure permanent peace,” said the leaders in a joint statement.
“In addition to the United States, we ask Russia to agree to a complete and unconditional 30-day ceasefire in order to create the room for discussions about just and permanent peace.”
There was no immediate reaction from Moscow to the Ceasefire call.
Russia has held attacks along the approximately 1,600 kilometer front line, including fatal strikes in residential areas.
On Thursday, Sybiha described the three -day ceasefire, which was declared “Farce” by Russia and accused the Russian armed forces to have violated him more than 700 times within one day. On the same day, both sides also said attacks on their troops.
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On Saturday morning, local officials in the Ukrainian region of the northern Sumy said last day that Russian fire had been killed three inhabitants last day and four others were wounded. Another civilian man died on Saturday when a Russian drone hit the southern city of Kherson, according to the regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin.
In conversation with reporters in Kyiv, French President Emmanuel Macron said: “What happens to Poland, Germany and Great Britain is a historical moment for European defense and a greater independence for our security. Obviously for Ukraine and all of us. It is a new era that sees itself as power.”
Trump said last week that he doubts that Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to end his war in Ukraine, and express new skepticism that a peace agreement can soon be achieved and indicate further sanctions against Russia.
The progress in the end of the war in the months since Trump had returned to the White House had seemed difficult to grasp, and his earlier claims of impending breakthroughs have not come into play. The US President previously urged Ukraine to stop Russia to end the war and threaten to go away when a deal becomes too difficult.
The European allies of Ukraine consider an end to the war to be fundamental to the security of the continent, and the pressure is now to find ways to support Kyiv militarily, regardless of whether Trump is pulling out.
The Ukrainian President Andrii Yermak, who got to know the European leaders of Kyiv’s main railway railway, wrote on Saturday at the Telegram -Messaging platform: “There is a lot of work to discuss many topics. We have to end this war with a fair peace. We have to force Moscow to agree to a caseefire.”
Later in the day, the leaders began to organize a virtual meeting together with Zelenskyy in order to update other managers about the progress for a future so -called “coalition of the willing” who help the Ukrainian armed forces according to a peace agreement and potentially use troops to polish a future peace agreement with Russia.
