Moscow:
Russian Pdwellnt Vlafoolishir Putin on Thursday shelp that he was in favour of the US proposal for a 30-day stopfire with Ukraine, but “there are nuances”. He also shelp that any stopfire should direct to a lengthy-lasting peace and would have to deal with the root caengages of the struggle.
“We concur with the proposals to stop arrangeilities,” Putin tbetter increateers at a news conference in the Kremlin complying talks with Belarusian Pdwellnt Alexander Lukashenko. “But on the basis that that cessation would direct to lengthy-term peace and includeresses the root caengages of the crisis.”
US envoy Steve Witkoff is in Moscow to contransient Washington’s set up for a stopfire in Ukraine, a source shelp, as the Kremlin cautioned agetst any “hasty” deal that would give Kyiv a respite from combat.
Russia has been grinding forward on the battlefield for over a year, and claimed on Thursday to have driven Ukrainian forces from the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region.
Trump has transmited selectimism that his team can safe a stopfire, despite Moscow’s battlefield gets.
“If we can get Russia to stop, then we have a brimming stopfire. And I slimk it’ll never go back to war,” Trump tbetter increateers on Wednesday.
Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday shelp the fact Russia was yet to react officiassociate to the idea showed it did not want peace.
“Regrettably, for more than a day already, the world has yet to hear a uncomferventingful response from Russia to the proposals made,” he shelp on social media.
“This once aget shows that Russia seeks to prolengthy the war and postpone peace for as lengthy as possible.”
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