Russia says it does not want a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine

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A senior assistant to Vladimir Putin said Russia does not want to stop the temporary shooting in Ukraine and presses for a long -term peace settlement that will take into account its interests and concerns.

Yuri Ushakov, the Russian President’s foreign policy advisor, told government television on Thursday that a 30 -day ceasefire suggested after talks between the United States and Ukraine this week.

“No one needs the steps to imitate peaceful actions in this situation,” Ushakov said, adding that Moscow “hopes [the US] He knows our position and wants to believe that they will take into account and we are working together to move forward. “

Russia’s rejection of the American proposal is in line with Putin’s militant position before high -level talks later on Thursday in Moscow, where Steve Whitcom, US President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, landed.

These demands will actually end with Ukraine as a working country and put them directly in the orbit of Russia, while heavily limited the presence of NATO in eastern Germany.

Oshkov said that Witkeov, who spoke to Putin last month as the United States started unusual attempts to rapprochement with Russia, will not be the main envoy of the White House in Moscow.

The Russian counselor said that Washington and Moscow agreed that any future contacts would be “of a closed nature” and refused to nominate the envoy.

He said he told National Security Adviser Mike Walz a day before that Russia’s goal was “a long -term peace agreement that takes into account. Our well -known interests.”

Putin called for Ukraine to recognize Russia to four parts of southeast and semi -Crimea, withdrawing its forces from those areas and the era of not to join NATO as pre -ceasefire conditions.

Russia is also pressing caps against the Ukrainian army, protecting Russian speakers in the country and new elections to replace President Voludmir Zelinsky.

He demanded an effective decline in NATO expansion in the east since the Cold War, which Putin claimed to have forced him to request his invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

While the Trump administration excluded Ukraine’s accession to NATO, and it said it wanted Kiev to hold new elections, Russia threatened future sanctions if Putin did not make concessions.

However, the negotiations come at a time when Russia has been offering progress in the restoration of parts of the Corsak region, which Ukraine seized in a sudden attack last summer and was hoping to use it as a bargaining drug.

Valerie Gerasimov, head of the Russian General Staff, told Putin – who was wearing military fatigue for the first time since the war began – that their forces had seized 400 soldiers and regained 86 percent of the Kiev lands.

The United States regained military aid and intelligence participation to Ukraine after senior officials in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have held a proposal.

Then Trump said that Moscow needs to agree to a temporary stop, and warned that “he could do things that will be very bad for Russia.”

“We hope that we can stop the shooting from Russia,” Trump said after an interview with Irish Prime Minister Michel Martin on Wednesday. “I have received some positive messages, but a positive message does not mean anything. This is a very dangerous situation.”

Additional reports by Velicia Schwartz in Washington