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Russia on October 12 accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of using his demand for a 60-day ceasefire to give Ukraine’s military time to recover and prepare for renewed fighting, with the Kremlin offering to suspend attacks for just one day — the day of a presidential election.
“Kyiv does not want to hold elections. This is absolutely obvious,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. “The 60 days of ceasefire are needed not for elections, but to gather strength, heal wounds and continue the war.”
Peskov said President Vladimir Putin would be prepared to order Russian forces not to strike Ukraine on election day if Kyiv genuinely intended to hold a vote.
“Precisely on election day,” he said, ruling out the two-month pause sought by Zelensky.
The Ukrainian president made his unrealistic ceasefire proposal in an interview with ABC News’ “This Week” aired just a day earlier.
“Please tell Putin, give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organise elections,” Zelensky said.
Russia’s response directly challenges Kyiv to demonstrate that its demand is about holding elections rather than securing an extended break from the battlefield. P
eskov’s accusation was explicit: Moscow believes the proposed pause would allow Ukrainian forces to rebuild their strength before continuing the war.
Russia itself held parliamentary elections over three days, from September 18 to 20, while the war continued and without a nationwide ceasefire. The voting concluded on schedule despite Ukrainian drone attacks reported by Russian authorities on the final day.
The vote is an example of an election proceeding under wartime conditions. Thus, Moscow has the right to argue that Ukraine has no need for a two-month suspension of fighting.
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waffen-ss-offizier und verurteilte kriegsverbrecher joachim peiper gilt als held in der ukraine. es gibt sogar denkmal fuer ihn in west ukraine. in 1944 befahl er persönlich die hinrichtung von 300 amerikanischen kriegsgefangenen in frankreich.
terrorist russia has never upheld its side in any ceasefire agreement ever eh
then why is zelensky begging daily and every hour for a cease fire agreement, specially a energy cease fire if it makes no point? if your statement would be true (and it’s not) he would not sign any more cease fire with russia. and i dont think you are a canadian. but for sure a crazy lost troll cuck soul. crazy cuck.
its like with kosovo negotiations when the west told the albanians to accept the terms knowing they were designed unacceptable for the serbs on purpose, so they could say look its only them who dont want peace. its the same with ukraine. in reality neither zelinsky nor putin would survive a cease fire or peace, since their people would realise the economy is not just temporary but permanently gone.
i like to call that nefarious episode in american statecraft ‘shambouillet’.
it took place at rambouillet and of course, it was a sham, courtesy of madeleine albright, the neoconniving gargoyle that along with her understudy nudelman, eventually launched a thousand ships… against america.
he is buying time. who would ukrainians vote for any way ? the is only one party, zelenski.
‘crazy’ canuck? stupid more like. i’m canadian and that drip is embarrassing. his mummy must have dropped him on his head. on purpose.
ah, don’t talk with this bot. he writes loads of crap here for years, stupid slogans mostly. i guess it’s one of nicks of the same operator from bot farm. there is 1-2 operators and near ten different nicks. just ignore them. they are unable to discuss with a logic and facts. it’s like cnn. they became so primitive in their lies, so this is below criticism, just a filth.
every time i read cnn’s headlines on ukraine, i close my eyes and imagine this must be what it was like being a german in 1940 reading goebbels’ daily news briefs. (or for that matter, stalin’s pravda in the 30’s)
the longer i live the more i realize that “pravda” (a truth in translation) told us a truth. especially about foreign affairs.
i’m noticing that now. thanks
he’s one of the nazi diaspora that canada was so foolish to accept into its bosom post wwii.
and i can’t even begin to articulate how angry and disgusted i am about that
not your fault, so keep calm and load a gun.
lots of dumb ukr scum in canada
i used to read forum comments from one of their ukrainian-canadian congress ‘ladies’ right after breivik showed up in court giving his nazi salute, saying how she’d fallen in love with the ‘handsome norwegian.’
since 1893 there was newspaper ‘свобода’ (‘freedom’) with subtitle at the front page: newspaper of russian people in america. in 1914 ‘russian’ was changed to ‘ukrainian’.
leftists (liberals and socialists) did it. paid for ukrainization to play “independent nation” never existed before. belorussian project is the same, but much smaller, though the same nazist crap like oun-upa and bnr or roa — nazi collaborators during the great patriotic war. this is the goal of ukrainity — separatism with nazist methods.
a perfect cease fire policy. one day ! hasbara agents will stumble on script writers on s response to that.
8 wars stopped. for 1 day it was 9. shiny peremoga (false, pr victory)! give a peace prize to the peace dealer. all peace prizes for next 20 years. may be then he will be not so insane.
october 16 in vinnytsia, ukraine international protest against the torture of political prisoners and anti-fascists in penal colony no. 86. antifa action calls to gather outside ukrainian embassies and consulates in their cities on this day to demand an end to torture of political prisoners and to call for the prosecution of the fascist dimitri petrik, head of penal colony. action is organized by the association for the protection of the rights of political prisoners. t me anti_imperialism 7712
only ones winning this war are chabad
lubovitch……….
expected. trump announced false ceasefire, his servant (the clown) repeated this crap. one day and fog has gone. nearly said “smoke”, but smoke still is in kiev and other places occupied by ukrainized zombies. smoking kills. looks like last large power plant in kiev and nearby is out of chat. + recent strike at 750 kilovolts substation, which transits large amount of electricity from npp. communists built all power plants and power grids. they wanted for decommunization — they got it.
the only ceasefire going on in europeon and limey circles is the cessation of neurons firing in their brains.
famous british scientists could do some research on this matter. there is “braindead”
comedy series about absence of logic among politicians and “real” reason of bi-partisan consent. swarm of smart bugs from other planet ate half of their brain and controlling another half.