In January, Russia Vladimir V. Putin emphasized the idea of Ukraine’s temporary ceasefire.
But after a month of President Trump’s foreign policy and the Russian troops made progress in major battles, Kremlin seems to be entertaining a 30 -day ceasefire proposal in Ukraine and the United States on Tuesday.
Putin spokesman Dmitri S. PESKOV told reporters that Kremlin is “carefully studied” the conversation between the United States and Ukrainians on Tuesday and demands a ceasefire for a month.
He hoped that the United States would provide information on Russia about the details of the negotiations and information on the understanding of the reach. He raised the possibility that he had made another call between Mr. Putin and Trump, and Kremlin signaled that the ceasefire proposal was seen as part of a wider diplomacy.
Later on Wednesday, President Putin tried to show that he was controlling the case by holding a television meeting with the top military officials accused of donating military fatigue and pushing Ukraine in the Kursk area of Russia. He instructed his army to defeat Ukraine in this region, “in the shortest time possible.”
Putin reversed last month, when President Trump re -adjusted US foreign policy last month with Russia’s favor. At the White House, he interfered with and announced President VolodyMyr Zelensky in Ukraine.
But the emergence of the US and Ukraine’s joint ceasefire suggests that Putin’s work is complicated. It deepens the tension between his desires for a wide range of victory in Ukraine and a close relationship with Trump.
Trump says he wants to end the war as soon as possible, but Putin said he would not stop fighting until the West and KYIV extracted major concessions, including the pledge that Ukraine would not join NATO.
On January 20, when Putin celebrated Trump about his inauguration, Putin made it clear that the goal of a Ukrainian talk was “not a short ceasefire, not any kind of rest.” Russia found “long -term peace based on respect for all countries in this area.”
Analysts said that President Putin’s opposition to temporary ceasefire came from a simple calculation that the Russian army was obtained from the battlefield.
But on February 12, Putin and Trump’s telephone calls and subsequent adjustments to Russia in the UN and other UNs in the White House say that President Trump’s good side is more eager to influence Putin’s aesthetics.
It sets delicate balance action for Kremlin.
Moscow’s political analyst, Ilya Grashchenkov, said that Kremlin could accept the ceasefire that was “tactically disadvantageous but strategically advantageous to show” a relaxant. “
The Russians did not attend at the talks in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, but the Trump administration maintained a relationship with Kremlin. John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, was announced on Tuesday by foreign intelligence agencies in Russia on Wednesday.
Steve Witkoff, the envoy of President Trump, who met with President Putin for several hours last month, plans to return to Russia for several hours in the next few hours. On Tuesday, Trump thought he would talk with President Putin this week and said on Wednesday that the White House journalists were on the way.
Trump said in a meeting with Ireland, “People are going to Russia as we say.” “And we hope you can get a ceasefire in Russia.”
As a sign of Moscow’s ongoing attack on Trump Camp, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov, a foreign minister on Wednesday, presented a 90 -minute interview that he gave three American video bloggers, including former Fox News.
Lavrov, who speaks English, praised the Trump administration for reversing the Democratic Party’s “starting from Christian values,” and Russia is ready for the “normal relationship” provided by the United States.
Samuel Charap, a Russian analyst in Rand Corporation, said the 30 -day proposal, “Russians are certainly not impossible to accept this.” “It’s not because you want an unconditional and temporary ceasefire, but now you have a stake in your relationship with Washington.”
President Putin’s aesthetics can be influenced by Russian progress in pushing Ukrainian troops from Kursk, a Russian border, which took hundreds of square miles of territory in August.
Zelensky said in a future conversation that he plans to use the land as a bargaining chip, but Kremlin signaled that Ukraine would refuse to negotiate as long as he maintained his territory.
Putin said, most of the time, when he returned to Russia’s hands, President Putin agreed to the ceasefire that Ukraine could control the Russian territory, saying that there was no risk of losing his face, Moscow’s professional Cre Lynnmar Kei Markov.
Prime Minister Marcov said that the incentives to agree with Russia said, “Russia doesn’t look like a war madness.” But he hoped that Putin would insist on prerequisites, such as stopping Ukrainian weapons during the ceasefire.
Markov said in a telephone interview, “Russia will say yes, but -.
On Wednesday, Russia’s popular professional war bloggers did not show much passion for the ceasefire. Some of them expressed concern that the armistice could eventually lead to a wider deal with the United States. In their views, they feared that they would betray the original goal of the war and eventually lead to the withdrawal of Russia in Ukraine.
A blogger returning to the name Alex Parker Post on Wednesday The trading of peace is that Ukraine will “easy to get out of the next round.”
Ivan NECHEPURENKO has contributed to the report.
