Russia has expanded a litany of existing conditions for an armistice that caused US President Donald Trump to threaten new sanctions against Russian oil.
On March 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the latest Nuclear U boat, the Arkhangelsk on March 27, a temporary administration should be used in Ukraine to lead the country.
The Russian officials have tried to discredit the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since the start of the negotiations in February to undermine the position of Ukraine.
For example, the Kremlin continues to accuse Ukraine of having broken an armistice against the energy infrastructure that Moscow proposed on March 18, and Kyiv did not agree.
Russian and Ukrainian technical teams have failed to be protected as part of the deal.
On Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that he would give his US counterpart a list of energy devices that were made by Ukraine “so that they can provide concrete evidence of what the word of the current Ukrainian authorities is worth if they can even call them authorities”.
A day later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted that Ukraine had not approved the moratorium.
There were many other Russian objections in the ceasefire talks.
Sergey Ryabkov, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, told an interviewer on Tuesday that the talks from the United States “left no space for Russia’s core demand” in order to remedy the “basic causes of this conflict”, which civil servants in Moscow defined as a reversal of NATO expansion and the treatment of Russian minorities in Ukraine.
Russia also rejects the peace troops who enforce an armistice.
The Russian ambassador in great rodion Miroshnik said on Wednesday at an academic conference in Armenia that Russia saw European violence in Ukraine as “an obvious occupation of Ukraine through Europe”.
The European Union has proposed creating peacekeeping after a peace agreement has been signed.
Trump began to show his first signs of impatience with the Russian position on Sunday, and said NBC in a phone call that he was “angry and p **** d off” with Putin and that he could divided a “25 to 50 point tariff for all (Russian) oil” in the next month and sanction companies that buy it.
It was unclear what the relevance of such tariffs would be. Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden banned all imports of Russian oil to the United States in 2022.
Trump’s impatience came the day he played with Finnish President Alexander Stubb Golf. He told him that a deadline was necessary to achieve an armistice.
“April 20 would be a good time for a full ceasefire without conditions … because a deadline is required because it is Easter and President Donald Trump has been in office for three months,” said Stubb later reporters.
Trump did not take over Stubbs proposal and reported on Monday that the deadline “Psychologically … If I think that they use us with us, I will not be happy about it,” he said on board Air Force One.
When asked if he thought Putin stopped at a standstill, he said: “I don’t know. I don’t think. I think he wants to make a deal.”
The director of the National Intelligence (Odni) office probably beat Putin that it would probably not be a quick ceasefire.
The annual threat assessment of Odni 2025 on Thursday said that Putin appears “determined and ready to pay a very high price in order to achieve in such a decisive time in the strategic competition of Russia with the United States, world history and its personal legacy”.
Russian attacks unabated
The Department of Defense to Ukraine said that Russia had increased its attacks on the front, even when it negotiated a ceasefire.
In March, the fighting excesses counted 4,270 compared to 3,274 in February.
Russia did not relax in the first three months of the year, the use of sliding bombs were relaxed – around 10,577 were used. The ministry said the entire last year, 40,000 were used.
Russian armed forces may have confiscated the Novolyubivka village near Lyman on Tuesday.
Her long -term air raids also took unabated all week.
Russia started on March 29, 172 drones against Ukraine, 94 of which were disoriented using electronic jamming 69. In Dnipro, several drones met high-rise apartment blocks and exhibited at least a dozen houses. Four people were killed and 21 injured.
Zelenskyy said in his evening address that drones had hit houses and a hospital in Kharkiv and injured 55 people, including five children.
The German magazine Bild said that Russia had improved its tactics by grouping drones in high -class formations at high heights before they all sent a goal at the same time.
Russia sent 111 drones on Sunday morning to strike a military hospital and a civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv City. Ukraine set up for 65 and disoriented 34th six Shahed drones in the Kharkiv region and caused several injuries.
“The geography and brutality of Russian strikes, not only occasionally, but literally every day and every day that Putin does not care less about diplomacy,” said Zelenskyy on Sunday in his evening speech.
“There has been a US proposal for unconditional ceasefire for several weeks. Almost every day in response to this proposal, there are Russian drones, bombs, artillery pain and ballistic strikes. Russia deserves increased pressure.”
But Russian strikes continued and injured civilians.
On Wednesday, a Russian rocket injured 17 civilians, including a child in Kryvyi Rih, part of an overnight attack of 74 Shahed drones, 41 of which were shot down and 20 was disoriented, said the Ukrainian Air Force.
The Air Force said she shot further drones the following night.
Only in the Black Sea seemed to show Russia a real will for an armistice. The spokesman for the marine, Dmytro Pletenchuk, said, although there was no official ceasefire, Russian armed forces did not attack the Ukrainian ports, and the Black Sea fleet remained in the eastern part of the Black Sea.
Ukrainian workers and weapons
Ukraine said it has made progress in recruitment and training in the past few months.
Commander -in -chief Oleksandr Syrskii said that improved training showed results in March.
“We have … increased the duration (of the training) to 1.5 months, introduced a mandatory adaptation period for newcomers to combat brigades, and this provides positive results,” he wrote on Monday on social media. “This month we recorded a decline in losses compared to the previous ones.”
The compulsory military service is mandatory for Ukrainian men aged 25 and over. This year Zelenskyy started a voluntary military service for those aged 18 to 24.
Last month, the Department of Defense increased the number of brigades that accepted such volunteers from six to 16 years and expanded the recruitment of land forces to naval, air and unmanned units.
This week, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said that the Volunteer Act had been changed from 18 to 24 in order to allow recruits to the National Guard and the Border Service of the State Palatization in addition to the armed forces.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, 884 people volunteered to accompany the armed forces in March, compared to 9,765 for the entire war, which indicates that the recruitment quotas of the volunteers climbed.
The harpies, a voluntary unit that operates unmanned vehicles, aims at women and applied last week as “an environment for women who take revenge on the enemy, their children, families and the state”.
“The unit also includes men, but the role of the pilots who deliver the last blow is only carried out by women,” it said.
Also convicted games.
Ukrinform, the information service of the Ukrainian armed forces, said that 8,000 former convicts had joined the forces and 900 applications were processed. The probation was approved in the law of May 2024, which reduced the mandatory conscription age to 25.
Ukraine has designed its own weapons to increase autonomy, accelerate the construction, reduce the costs and enable their unrestricted use.
This week, the Ministry of Defense reported that it approved 350 new weapons for the operation this year. 87 percent of them produced domestically compared to less than half of the approximately 100 models that were approved last year.
Europe’s attitude
Europe continued to deliver generous weapon support.
Zelenskyy met the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Kyiv on Tuesday and thanked her for a new military aid package of EUR 3 billion (3.3 billion USD), with the Germanys a total of 7 billion euros (7.7 billion USD) and the war was brought to 43 billion euros (47.4 BBN).
The Netherlands said on Monday that it had released a tranche of 500 million euros ($ 550 million) in order to better integrate the drone operations into the ground operations.
Sweden announced an AID package of USD 1.6 billion to improve air defense, artillery, satellite communication and naval functions of Ukraine.
The United Kingdom and France said on Wednesday that they would be a meeting of countries on April 10 that teach peace troops in the NATO headquarters.
Meanwhile, Great Britain and Germany are planning to lead a meeting of the Ukraine defense group, which provides weapons to Ukraine the following day. It will be the second Ramstein meeting in which the United States does not participate that has taken a neutral attitude.
When asked whether Europe was willing to enter a dialogue with Putin, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said on Thursday: “There were no signals yet.”
