“It cannot be discussed with Russia in this way.” The Kremlin rejects as “unacceptable” the ultimatum of ceasing fire in Ukraine

The Kremlin qualified on Monday as unacceptable the ultimatum addressed to Russia by Ukraine and its European allies, who asked Moscow to accept on Monday, May 12, a 30-day armistice, threatening that in the case of a refusal it will be subjected to new sanctions.

Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Peskov Photo AFP

“The language of ultimatums is unacceptable. It cannot be discussed with Russia in this way,” said the Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, at his daily press conference, reports AFP and EFE, quoted by Agerpres.

Peskov added:

“We are determined to seriously seek a way for sustainable settlement“Of the conflict, through “Eliminating deep causes”.

After the summit hosted on Saturday in Kiev by Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, European allies of Ukraine, especially French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a lasting to accept an unconditional acceptance for an unintended Army For 30 days in the Ukraine war, threatening it that otherwise new economic sanctions will impose Russia and will intensify weapons to Kiev.

Russia reacted, proposing to Ukraine direct negotiations to start on May 15 in Istanbul, based on the unfinished agreement in the last negotiations held there in the spring of 2022.

Zelenski will wait for Putin at Istanbul on May 15

The Ukrainian president said he would wait for Putin in Istanbul on May 15 for direct negotiations. At the Press Conference on Monday, the Kremlin spokesman did not say anything about this statement by the Ukrainian president, who came after US President Donald Trump asked Ukraine and Russia to meet “immediate“, Without waiting for a cessation of fire.

French leader Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that he will have new calls with Zelenski and other European leaders today to define the understanding of new sanctions against Russia if it rejects the ultimatum on cessation of fire for 30 days.

It is not known whether these sanctions will be imposed by Europeans together with Washington or will only benefit from its assent. A spokesman for the European Commission, Paula Pino, said on Monday that the EU coordinates with the United States to support sanctions. “In recent years, we have collaborated closely with the US in coordinating sanctions against Russia and we will continue to do this to try to make sure that, as far as possible, the sanctions we impose benefits from US support,” the community spokesman said.

“We hope this will happen”

On Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan urged Russia and Ukraine on Monday to sue a cessation of fire and meet in Turkey for negotiations.

“We invite the parties to bring together possible and decrete a cessation of fire. We hope this will happen for this,” said the head of Turkish diplomacy.

Russia claims that in the negotiations in Istanbul in 2022, one month after the invasion of Ukraine, a peace agreement had almost agreed, but was finally abandoned by Kiev at the request of Washington, and Ukraine did not want to sign it as soon as the Russian troops withdrew from the Kiev capital. The agreement of agreement provided for a status of geopolitical neutrality for Ukraine, limiting its military capacities and a special status for the provinces in the east of the country, clauses to which the Ukrainian president Volodimir Zelenski categorically expressed his opposition.

Russia actually demands, among other things, the recognition of the annexation of the territories it occupies in Ukraine

The Kremlin has transmitted several times that a negotiated resolution of the conflict in Ukraine must take into account the elimination “Deep causes” its and “Russia's legitimate security interests”, The formula by which Russia requires, among other things, the recognition of the annexation of the territories it occupies in Ukraine, the exclusion of the accession of this country at NATO and the creation of a new European Security architecture.