Ukraine and allies are pushing for a 30-day trait that would start on Monday but Putin wants direct talks

Ukraine and his allies are ready for “full, unconditional truce” with Russia for at least 30 days, on Saturday, but Saturday said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, but Russian President Vladimir Putin pushes direct conversations next week.

Their remarks came as leaders of the four major European countries visited Kiev, putting pressure on Moscow to agree to the truce and initiate peace talks on the completion of almost a three-year conflict. They followed what Sybiha said it was a “constructive” phone call between the leader of France, Germany, Poland, Great Britain, President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Great Britain Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the group “talked to the President Trump together. We agreed on our joint terms of our further actions.”

At the press conference on Saturday, Putin said Moscow repeatedly presented the switch initiatives, and he claimed that Kyiv saboted them. He also suggested that he continued direct conversations without a prerequisite next Thursday, 15. May in Istanbul.

Putin said direct talks “eliminate the root causes of the conflict” and “to achieve the reconstruction of the long-term, permanent peace”, according to Reuters.

Meanwhile, Saturday marked the last day of a single-sided three-day switch that Russia stated that Ukraine says that the forces were injured several times.

In March, the United States proposed immediate, limited 30-day truceWhich Ukraine accepted, but Kremlin is for his favorable concepts.

The leaders of France, Germany, Poland and Great Britain arrived at the Railway Station in Kiev, and Zelenskyy met soon after the ceremony in the Kyiv Square for independence that is celebrated 80. Anniversary of the end of World War II. They brightened the candles on the memory of the improvised flag for the Pale Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.

The visit marked the first time that the heads of four countries traveled together in Ukraine, while Friedrich Merz brings his first visit to his first visit as well as the German New Chancellor.

Sybiha called the Russian truce “Fars” on Thursday, accusing Russian violations of over 700 times less than one day after it formally enters into force. Both sides also said attacks on their troops continued on Thursday.

“We repeat our support for calls to President Trump for the peace contract and calls for Russia to stop interfering with efforts to ensure lasting peace,” the leaders in the joint statement. “In addition to the United States, we call Russia to agree to a full and unconditional 30-day recircciliar fire for creating space for conversations in just and lasting peace.”

Mr. Trump skipped both sides to quickly reach a conflict agreement, but while Zelensky has agreed to the American plan for the initial 30-living room according to hostilities, Russia did not apply. Instead, he retained attacks along approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of front lines, including deadly strikes in residential areas without obvious military goals.

On Saturday morning, local officials in the North Sumerian region in Ukraine said Russian shelling were killed three inhabitants and wounded four more. The second civilian man died on the spot on Saturday, as Russian Dron hit the southern city of Kherson, according to the regional government. Oleksandr Prokudin.

Speaking with journalists in Kiev, French President Emmanuel Macron said, “What happens to Polish, German and the United Kingdom is a historical moment for European defense and for greater independence for our safety. It is the European ERA to see as power.”

Mr. Trump once said that doubts in Russian Putin wants to finish his fight in Ukraine, expressing new skepticism that a peace agreement can soon be achieved and hinted in further sanctions against Russia.

Progress in conflict resolving seemed elusive in months since Mr. Trump returned to the White House, and his previous claims of immediate penetration failed to come to the Fruit. Mr. Trump had previously pushed Ukraine to concise the territory in Russia to end the conflict, threatening to go if the job becomes too difficult.

European Allies in Ukraine view the continent security, and the pressure is now mounted to find ways to support the Kiev army – whether Mr. Trump is extracted.

Ukrainian presidential assistant Andrii Yermak, who wrote on the telegram on Saturday: “There are a lot of work, a lot of topics for discussion. We must conclude Moscow to agree to the recirculation.”

Later, a virtual meeting began in the day next to Zelenia to update other progress leaders in the future of the so-called “coalition of willing” and potentially distributed in Ukraine to the police with any future peace agreement with Russia.