The 30 -hour Easter truce Declared by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and seconded by Ukraine, has expired at midnight on Sunday without the Kremlin announcing the decision to prolong it. In this way, Putin has rejected the proposal of the Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenski, who had proposed to extend the high fire for 30 days.
The Russian president declared the truce this Saturday, on the occasion of the Orthodox Easter“for humanitarian reasons” and called Ukraine to join her, what Zelenski did shortly after. For his part, the Ukrainian leader called the Chief of Kremlin to demonstrate that the truce did not seek only headlines in the international press, but a lasting cessation of hostilities, who called “opportunity for peace.”
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, had already put a jug of cold water hours to hope of an extension of the truce, assuring the Tass agency that Putin had not taught any order in this regard.
To do this, Moscow raised in the alleged rapes of the truce by the Ukrainian army, which attacked Russian positions last night in Donbás and launched attacks with drones and artillery, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Putin had warned that the fulfillment of the truce by the enemy would demonstrate “what sincere” was Zelenski’s call to peace in Ukraine.
For his part, Zelenski also accused Moscow of breaching the truce with “isolated” attempts to advance in several sectors of the front, attacks that were increasing as the hours passed until they add some 2,000 violations. “Either Putin does not control his army or the situation shows that in Russia they do not have the objective of a real advance towards the end of the war,” said the Ukrainian president.
Putin and other senior officials have made it clear that They do not see today possible a total cessation of long -term hostilitiessince -Ducen- kyiv would take advantage of the pause to regroup and rearm with western weapons.
Analysts consider that the Pascual truce was, in fact, a diplomatic game for Win points against US President Donald Trumpon whom of the two countries at war supports peace more.
Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, warned this week that if he had not advanced “soon” in negotiations to solve the Ukrainian crisis, Washington would consider taking aside and abandoning his role as a mediator in the peace process.
