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In the event of a violation of this ceasefire, we have agreed that massive sanctions will be prepared and coordinated between Europeans and Americans,
Macron said
The position we've now got to today is absolute unity across a whole range of countries around the world, including the United States, that there must be that 30-day unconditional ceasefire,
UK's Starmer said
For the first time in a long time we had a feeling that the whole free world is truly united,
Poland's Tusk saidWe have just now... decided to support a ceasefire which will begin next Monday, without any preconditions,
Macron told a press conference
The attacks on the front line continue,
President Volodymr Zelenskyy said on Saturday
Those who really want peace can't be against [the proposal],
Putin saidAnd Russian assaults are ongoing,
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Europe is actually confronting us very openly,
Peskov said
We would like to start immediately, already next Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul, where they were held before and where they were interrupted,
Putin said in a rare late-night televised addressWe are set on serious negotiations with Ukraine,
Putin said[There ... There is a] lesson that any veteran of Normandy of Africa or any other campaign will tell you, but that Putin has not yet grasped
Starmer told reporters
We’re in the mood for serious talks with Ukraine,
Putin said in late-night comments to reporters at the Kremlin on Saturday (Moscow time).
An unconditional ceasefire by definition cannot be subject to any conditions. If Russia calls for such conditions, this can only be considered as an effort to prolong the war and undermine diplomacy,
the statement read
It was not Russia that broke off negotiations in 2022. It was Kyiv. Nevertheless, we are proposing that Kyiv resume direct negotiations without any preconditions,
Putin said
Let me remind you that as a result of these negotiations, a joint draft document was prepared, and it was initialled by the head of the Kyiv negotiating group, but at the insistence of the West, it was thrown into the trash,
Putin added
During the three days of the declared ceasefire, Kyiv has made 5 attempts to attack the Russian border.”
Putin hit back on Sunday and claimedWe do not exclude that during these talks we will be able to agree on some new ceasefire,
he added, without directly addressing the call made by the leaders of Ukraine, Britain, France, Germany and Poland for a ceasefire to start Monday
We are determined to have serious negotiations ... to eliminate the root causes of the conflict,
Putin told reporters in a middle-of-the-night statement at the KremlinWe offer the Kyiv authorities to resume negotiations already on Thursday, in Istanbul,
Putin said
Kyiv authorities have not responded to any of our ceasefire proposals."
He said