The Russian authorities avoid openly pronounced on the proposal of truce of the United States and Ukraine to gain time in the negotiation. Meanwhile, Russian ultranationalism enters anger, disappointed with Donald Trump’s last requirement. “You are a bit quickly,” Putin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, responded to the journalists, when asked what the Kremlin of the proposal thinks, and he has urged to wait for Washington to offer more details. The Foreign Ministry, on the other hand, has assured that Russia’s position “will be adopted in Russia.” However, the fear between war and politician propagandists is that the truce only strengthens Ukraine. Some have dared to pronounce even before the official version of the Kremlin: “Any agreement will be with our conditions, not with the Americans,” warned the vice president of the Federation Council, the Russian Senate, Kostantín Kosachev.
Putin spokesman has urged to wait. “So much [el secretario de Estado Marco] Rubio like [el asesor de seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos, Mike] Waltz declared yesterday [por el martes] that will give us detailed information about Yeda’s conversations. First we must obtain that information, ”said Peskov. Hours later, Rubio has announced that Washington and Moscow will contact this Wednesday to analyze the truce proposal.
Meanwhile, on the battlefield, the situation is changing. Although the Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine has stagnated in recent months, the reconquest of its own territory in the Kursk region, partially occupied by kyiv’s forces since last August, advances by leaps and bounds. Russian troops have waved their flags in the center of Sudzha, the main city of that territory, this Wednesday. “The victory will be ours,” Kosachev added. “
The two powers maintain contacts in different spheres. On Wednesday the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Serguéi Naryshkin, and the CIA Chief, John Ratcliffe, talked. According to the Russian Espionage Service, the objective was “to help guarantee international stability and security, as well as reduce confrontation in relations between Moscow and Washington.”
The spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova, stressed that the ultimate decision on the truce will be taken by Moscow. “The position of Russia is not formed abroad through the agreements or efforts of other parts. Russia’s position is formed within the Russian Federation, ”said the representative of the department directed by Serguéi Lavrov. The veteran diplomatic has stressed once again in another interview that Moscow will only accept measures that satisfy their interests. For Moscow, any proposal on Ukraine “must focus on eradicating the deep causes of the conflict”, and this includes kyiv’s disarmament.
Lavrov has not commented on the truce agreed on Tuesday between Ukraine and the United States in Saudi Arabia, but has assured in an interview granted to American bloggers that Donald Trump will not grant security guarantees to kyiv while holding the current President Ukraine. “Trump does not want to provide them with a Ukraine led by [Volodímir] Zelenski. He has his own vision of the situation, which he expresses regularly and directly, ”said Lavrov, who has also criticized the United Kingdom and the European Union for strengthening his military support to Ukraine, but has not addressed the American promise to rearm Kiev in exchange for accepting the temporal truce.
The Russian Foreign Minister has sharply rejected a deployment of European peace troops in Ukraine. “If the expansion of NATO is recognized, at least by Trump, as one of the fundamental causes of the conflict, then the presence in Ukrainian soil of NATO troops under any flag or size is the same threat to us,” said Lavrov.
Moscow avoids ruling on truce’s proposal despite the fact that in recent months he has insisted that he does not want any temporary solution. Even so, some politicians have dared to criticize the idea of a ceasefire. “It is unacceptable, it will only allow Ukraine to regroup and rearm,” the Deputy of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, the deputy and General Víktor Soboliov, was known hours after knowing the pact.
The vice president of the Federation Council, Kostantín Kosachev, has also urged to look at the advances in the front to highlight that any truce or peace will be in the terms that Putin dictates. “It is not about boasting, but about understanding that there, on the front, true agreements are still being written. This is something that Washington should also understand, ”he has written on his Telegram Kosachev channel.
The head of the Foreign and Defense Policy Council, an organization that advises the Kremlin, Fiódor Lukyanov, has indicated that the truce “contradicts Moscow’s repeated position that there will not be a stop the fire until the foundations for a lasting peace are agreed.” “In other words, we will fight until a comprehensive plan is elaborated,” said the expert.
Meanwhile, Russian ultra -nationalism regrets Trump’s alleged concessions to Ukraine, Rearme and Intelligence Advice included. “No Maga projects, no JFK documents or the Epstein list. The narrative of fighting Russian evils continues. Give more money to Zelenski’s fraudulent dwarf. Great result of the American conservative revolution, ”he lamented in X one of the ideological headlights of Russian ultranationalism and Trump’s defender, Alexánder Dugin.
