At the beginning of the week, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky suggested that Russia began withdrawing troops from Ukraine before ChristmasIn this way the Kremlin can demonstrate its sincere peace intentions.
As Zelensky noted at the time, the holidays celebrated by billions of people around the world are approaching. The President insisted During this period people think about peace and not about war. It suggests thinking about it the same way for the Kremlin.
– I suggest that Russia should at least try to prove it Aggression can be abandoned. It would be right to begin the internationally recognized withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine this Christmas. If Russia withdraws its forces from Ukraine, that is certain Armistice Zelensky insisted.
Now, the Kremlin spokesman referred to the words of the Ukrainian president Dmitry Peskov. He said Russia had not received any proposals for a “Christmas truce” in Ukraine.
However, this is not what Peskov has been saying about the war in recent days. On Tuesday, he said there should be peace between the two sides.“Ukraine must take into account the facts that emerged during the conflict.”
As he explained, the reality is that Russia has annexed four Ukrainian regions as “new entities”. These are the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the annexation of which Russia announced in September and which most UN countries recognize as illegal. Peskov said that it was impossible to improve the situation “without taking into account the new regional realities”, It “appeared in the Russian Federation As a result of polls conducted in those territories.