Kreml's 30-hour arms rest: Blame Game against Ukraine-Trump agreed?
Kreml's 30-hour arms rest: Blame Game against Ukraine-Trump agreed?
It was unexpected, hardly implemented and not even extended. But the hopeless short-lived Easter rest des Kremls aimed directly on the US President Donald and Should the blame for his disastrous peace efforts in the Ukraine conflict.
The skepticism compared to the Easter chest
When Russian President Vladimir Putin surprisingly announced a 30-hour ceasefire on Saturday, there was already skepticism in Ukraine and beyond whether this would be more than just a cynical PR campaign, in the face of growing criticism that Moscow had become a brake block for peace. However, it also revealed that Putin could expose the conflict at any time, which fueled hopes that the short -term weapon reduction could become more substantial, maybe even create space for a serious peace process.
not longer than 30 hours
Instead, the Easter chest ran exactly at midnight on Sunday, exactly at the time the Kremlin had always called. Ukraine asked Russia to extend the ceasefire. But as far as we know, there were not even discussions about an extension. For Moscow this never seemed to be the beginning of the end of the war.reports on violations on both sides
from the moment when the weapons were supposed to be quiet at 6 p.m. Moscow time, there were reports of massive violations on both sides. The Ukrainian military accused the Russian armed forces of performing 2,935 attacks along the extensive front lines, including 1,882 cases of fire and 96 Russian ground attacks.
The Russian reaction
But they are the outraged Russian calls for unfair playing styles, of which the Kremlin hopes that Trump will hear them loudly and clearly. Russian officials claimed to have found almost 5,000 Ukrainian violations and repeated that a longer ceasefire, such as the 30 days proposed by Trump, which was already accepted by Kiev but rejected by Moscow, was not feasible.
a gesture of good will?
"Ukraine, by not adhering to the Easter rest proposed by President Vladimir Putin, has shown that it is unable to hire fire even for 30 hours," said Rodion Miroshnik, the special ambassador of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kiewer Regime, on Sunday in the television broadcast controlled by the Kremlin.
The concerns of the Kremlin and the role of the USA
For the Kremlin, this was a gesture of good will in the form of a Russian ceasefire, which bone the Ukrainian leadership and its European supporters as the actual brake pads for a Trump deal. The White House has repeatedly repeated Kremlin statements in the past, and it could be right to think that this could possibly do it again.
Trump and the ceasefire
In Moscow, concern is growing about what could happen if an unpredictable Trump actually refrains from his efforts to peace in Ukraine, as he threatened if there is no progress soon. Putin's greatest concern is that Trump grants Russia to blame, strengthens US support for Kiev and imposes serious new economic sanctions against Moscow, which would mean the potential end of the advantages of redesigning US Russian relationships.
continued US priorities
The United States remains "obliged to achieve a complete and comprehensive ceasefire," said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry on Sunday after Kiev Moscow had repeatedly broken the ceasefire. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Washington could stop his efforts to terminate the conflict in Ukraine within "days" if there were no signs of progress.
The influence on Trump's peace process
to convince the Trump that Ukraine and not Russia are responsible for the final failure of its peace process is therefore an important goal of the Kremlin and probably a major reason why the Easter rest was proclaimed.
optimism despite setbacks
Before she ended on Sunday evening, with the Kremlin explained that Putin had not given a command to extend the ceasefire, there were signs that Trump - for the time being - was still committed. "Hopefully Russia and the Ukraine will complete a deal this week. Both will then do big business with the United States of America who flourishes and earn a fortune," Trump posted on Traum letters to Truth on Sunday, while returning from a golf course that he has outside of Washington. His words were optimistic, and Trump seems strange at the moment that there can still be a deal, despite the hopes for a breakthrough in the Ukraine War at the weekend.
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