The Kremlin said Tuesday that he still plans to honor a unilateral proposal of 72 hours by President Vladimir Putin the celebrations of this week’s victory day, despite the rejection of Ukraine to the truce.
Putin ordered the fire from midnight from May 8 to May 11 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in World War II.
“President Putin’s initiative on a duration of the temporal truce, the holidays remain in force,” Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists.
However, he added that the Russian forces “would give a clean response immediately” if Ukraine launched the attacks of the high fire period.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zensky, has dismissed the plan, describing it as a hollow gesture before the annual military parade of the Russian Red Square on May 9.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine warned that the foreign troops marched in the parade along with the Russian military would be seen as “sharing the responsibility” of the Russian war.
“Marching them next to them is to share the responsibility of the blood of children, civilians and military Ukrainians killed, not honor the victory over Nazism,” said the ministry in a statement.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, seemed to defend the rhythm of the fire of the proposition on Monday, saying: “It does not seem much, but it is much if you knew where we started.”
In March, Putin rejected the fire proposed by the United States that Zensky had supported.
AFP contributed reports.
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