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According to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov, Vladimir Putin “supports the idea” of a cease-fire. Moscow, however, awaits answers to several of his questions.
The Kremlin estimated on Monday, April 7 that “a whole series of questions” on Monday, April 7, “remained to be resolved to conclude a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, when the talks initiated by Washington are struggling to succeed. Vladimir Putin “supports the idea of a ceasefire but, before that, a whole series of questions remains unanswered,” said spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov. According to the interested party, these concern in particular “The inability of the kyiv regime to control several extremist groups” et “subsequent militarization projects“From Ukraine.
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After three years of a conflict that has made tens of thousands of deaths, US President Donald Trump aims to end hostilities. For this, he broke the diplomatic isolation imposed on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by the Westerners after the start of the offensive in 2022. His administration put pressure for a rapid end of the conflict and for this organized indirect talks with Russian and Ukrainian officials, who have however resulted in any concrete breakthrough.
“The trap of endless negotiations”
At the end of March, Donald Trump expressed a certain frustration in the face of the slow negotiations, saying to himself “very upset, furious” towards Vladimir Putin, after the latter mentioned the idea of a “transitional administration“In Ukraine, without its current President Volodymyr Zelensky. Underwater pressure, kyiv had accepted an unconditional cessation of the fighting, for 30 days, rejected for Moscow. Russia has given its agreement to A moratorium on strikes against energy sitesmuch more limited, but the two belligerents accuse each other since raping it.
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These have ratified the principle of a truce in the Black Sea but the Kremlin then laid conditions, in particular the lifting of sanctions by the Western countries, which do not seem to be admissible in the short term. On Friday, the head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio said that Donald Trump would not fall into the trap of endless negotiations “about this conflict. “We will know fairly quickly-in a few weeks and not in a few months-if Russia is serious or not regarding peace,” he predicted.
