Ukraine has refused to join the temporary truce that the president of Russia announced on the occasion of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the World War II.
The high three -day fire in Ukraine announced by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has entered into force this midnight without kyiv having joined the unilateral initiative of the Kremlin.
The ceasefire will govern during the next 72 hours, until midnight from May 10 to 11, on the occasion of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. “Yes, the initiative of the Russian part, by President Putin, is still in force,” said Dmitri Peskov this morning, presidential spokesman, at his daily telephone press conference.
Putin declared the truce with an eye on the presence in the Russian capital of a thirty foreign leaderswhich will attend on May 9 to the military stop in the Red Square.
This Wednesday the Russian leader met with the presidents of Venezuela and Cuba; Today he will receive the Chinese leader and tomorrow he will do the same with the president of Brazil and the Slovak Prime Minister.
Precisely, in addition to Reject the trucethe president of Ukraine, Volodímir ZelenskiHe said that kyiv cannot guarantee the safety of leaders traveling to Moscow to meet with Putin.
As he did with the brief Easter truce, Putin said he had made that decision for humanitarian reasons and called kyiv to follow his footsteps.
Drones attacks
In context, the Domodédovo International Airport, in the south of the capital of Russia, was forced to temporarily interrupt operations due to the attacks of Ukrainian drones against the Moscow region, according to the Russian Aeronautical Agency Rosaviatsia.
In turn, the mayor of Moscow, Serguéi Sobianin, reported in Telegram of the demolition of at least four drones near the Russian capital.
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