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The leaders of Germany, France, Poland and the United Kingdom met this Saturday kyiv with the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, to show their support to Ukraine and, together with the United States, demand from Moscow a “high to total fire” for 30 days.
In separate statements, both the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the head of the German government, Friedrich Merz, threatened to harden the sanctions against Russia if he refuses to accept a truce.
Merz also mentioned the continuation of “massive help” to Ukraine in the absence of a Kremlin reaction.
The visit of European leaders occurs a day after a lavish celebrations in Moscow for the 80 years of victory over Nazi Germany.
Macron requested “direct conversations” between Ukraine and Russia, within the framework of the 30 -day fire that the United States, Ukraine and Europeans demand from Moscow, in an interview with the French chains TF1 and LCI.
On his side Merz threatened Moscow with “a massive hardening of the sanctions” if Putin rejects the truce that Europeans and American ask for, he said in an interview with the German newspaper Bild by ensuring the continuity of “massive aid to Ukraine, politically, of course, but also financially and militarily,” he said.
In the event that there is a 30 -day truce, Macron expressed his willingness to help to make “direct conversations between Ukraine and Russia,” he said in the interview conducted on the train on the way to the Ukrainian capital.
In a separate statement, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in X that the block supports “the proposal of a high and unconditional fire of 30 days” and thus “pave the path to significant peace negotiations.”
The European leaders attended together with the Ukrainian President to the Plaza de Maidán, in the center of kyiv, to pay tribute with candles and observe a minute of silence before a memorial to the fallen soldiers since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Europeans arrive at kyiv strengthened by the call of US President Donald Trump, who pressed Russia on Thursday to accept a “cessation to the unconditional fire of 30 days”, accepted by Ukraine, but that Moscow rejects.
Russia, which occupies 20% of the Ukrainian territory, “misrepresents, imposes conditions, wins time and continues its invasion war,” Macron said on Saturday in an X message, just after his arrival in the Ukrainian capital.
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Before their arrival in Ukraine, the four leaders published a joint statement in which they urged Russia to “accept the high to the total and unconditional fire of 30 days to create a space to talk about a fair and lasting peace.”
In kyiv, they will also participate in a virtual meeting with the “coalition of volunteers”, composed of countries that support Ukraine and led by London and Paris, to discuss “security guarantees” for this country in case of truce.
They will inform the other participants of this group about the “progress made in view of a future coalition that meets air forces, land and sea” to help the Ukrainian army “after a possible peace agreement” with Russia.
In Friday’s lavish parade, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, paid tribute to the soldiers deployed in Ukraine for “her courage”, in the worst armed conflict in Europe since World War II, which has caused tens of thousands of dead in each country.
In an interview with the American television channel ABC, the spokesman for Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, defended that Russia will not cease the fire if the arms supplies of the western countries to Ukraine do not end before.
Otherwise, a truce would be “an advantage for Ukraine” at a time when “Russian troops advance” on the front, Peskov said.
– truce –
Ukraine has not informed about long -range Russian missile attacks in its cities since the beginning of a unilateral truce of Russia this week, but accused Moscow of hundreds of rapes in the front line.
Ukrainian media stated on Saturday that Russia had notified the closure of the airspace on its military site used for the launch in 2024 of its latest generation missile Orshnik, a potential signal for preparation for a new attack.
From the return of Donald Trump to the White House in January, and the beginning of his approach with Putin, the Ukrainians and Europeans fear that an agreement will be closed without their consent.
However, now they hope to tune in to the US president, especially from a face to face between Trump and Zelenski in Rome on the occasion of Pope Francis’s funeral on April 26.
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