“Such ultimatum language is inadmissible. You can’t talk to Russia with that language, ”said Dmitri Peskov, presidential spokesman.
Peskov stressed that it is not the first time that European countries threaten Moscow with New sanctions for his military campaign in Ukraine.
“We are determined to seriously seek the via for a lasting peaceful arrangement”He said.
At the same time, he recalled the intervention, on May 11, of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in which proposed to Ukraine to celebrate direct negotiations on May 15 in Istanbul without any previous condition.
Russia, who has always warned that a truce will be used by kyiv to rearm, consider that demanding that he declare A high fire is a condition.
Said approach is aimed precisely to find a real diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisisthe elimination of the original causes of the conflict and the establishment of a solid peace, said Peskov.
He stressed that Putin’s peace initiative was supported by “the leaders from many countries”, Including the BRICS partners, in reference to China and Brazil, whose leaders participated on May 9 in Moscow in the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.
Peskov also stressed that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, called the Ukrainian leader, Volodimir Zelenski, to support the Russian proposal, after which this was He showed willing to travel to Istanbul.
Regarding the question about members of the Russian delegation That he will travel to the Turkish city and if he will include Putin, the Russian spokesman did not want to comment.
Putin did not openly reject the fire, but he did not support him either, arguing that kyiv had raped the previous truces: From the energy, the Pascual and the most recent, on the occasion of Victory Day.
Instead, rejected European “ultimatum” And he proposed to open direct negotiations, although he did not rule out that in Istanbul a real truce agreement was reached that is backed not only by Russia, but also by the Ukrainian part.
“This would be the first step for lasting and firm peace, and not the prologue for the continuation of the conflict after the rearme and a new mobilization of the Ukrainian army“, said.
The exterior spokeswoman, María Zajárova, stressed that “there must first be negotiations on initial causes (of the conflict) and then you can talk about truce. ”
“We have agreed that as of May 12, a tall the full and unconditional fire of at least 30 days. Jointly we ask Russia, ”Zelenski said on a joint press conference in kyiv with the leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland.
In addition to refusing to suspend the supplies of weapons to kyiv, Europeans threatened Moscow with “massive sanctions” coordinated between Europe and the United States.