The western allies today advise again about a peace solution for Ukraine. Russia's President Putin meanwhile puts a stop at the Ukraine invasion along the front line. But Kyiv remains skeptical.
State Minister and Security Advisor of the United States, several European allies and Ukraine today want to continue their consultations in London about the end of the Russian war of aggression.
Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj meanwhile renewed his willingness to take a ceasefire with Russia. “Ukraine is ready for unconditional ceasefire, and if this ceasefire is partially, we are ready for mirror -image measures,” said the president. For example, attacks on energy systems or the use of far -reaching weapons could be dispensed with.
For Selenskyj it depends, the example of the Easter ceasefire showed, only to reduce the shelling from Moscow. “But it is still very far to an unconditional ceasefire,” he emphasized.
Media report: Putin brings the invasion of the invasion along the front into play
According to a media report, Russia's President Vladimir Putin offered a stop of the Ukraine invasion along the entire current front line. This is part of efforts to achieve a peace agreement with US President Donald Trump, reports the Financial Times, citing insiders. Putin submitted this proposal at the beginning of the month at a meeting with the US special envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg.
As the newspaper reports on three people familiar with the conversations, Moscow could do without claims on sections of the partially taken Ukrainian regions, about which the government in Kiev continues to have control.
According to the British and American media, the US specials are supposed to take part in the meeting in London. Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg. The host is the British Foreign Minister David Lammy. Germany is represented by the Federal Chancellor's foreign and security policy consultant, Jens Plötner, and the political director in the Federal Foreign Office, Günter Sautter.
Criticism of the EU US negotiations for peace
Meanwhile, the EU foreign commissioner Kaja Kallas accused the United States not to exploit all available funds in order to achieve a ceasefire. “You have all the tools with which you can use pressure, Kallas told the AFP news agency.” You did not use these tools. “
To the Easter, broken ceasefire from both sides, said Kallas: Russia games “all these games and keeps us and does not really want to peace”. The Easter armchair was only a trick so that US President Trump “does not lose patience”.
Trump had said on Sunday that he hoped for an agreement between Russia and Ukraine “this week”. Before that, he had threatened to get out of peace efforts if Kiev or Moscow should make the conversations “very difficult”. The Kremlin slowed down. Spokesman Dmitri Peskow said the topic was “so complex” that a “implementable agreement” could not be achieved in a “short -term time frame”.
