Ukraine News: Ukraine offers 30-day ceasefire from Monday

The western allies of Ukraine try to put Russia under pressure, to agree to a ceasefire and peace negotiations. If the Russian President Vladimir Putin further rejects this, there will be “massive tightening of the sanctions and there will continue to be massive help for Ukraine,” said Chancellor Friedrich Merz der Picture-Newspaper During his visit to Kyiv. “Politically anyway, financial aid, but also military.” The Americans supported this tightening, said Merz. Donald Trump loses “obviously patience with Putin”.

French President Emmanuel Macron also said: If Moscow further hinders a break, “we will increase the pressure – together, as a European and in close coordination with the United States”.

Merz traveled to Kiev on Saturday, together with Macron, the British Prime Minister Keir Strandmer and the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. “Together with the United States, we ask Russia to agree to a complete and unconditional 30-day ceasefire in order to create space for discussions about just and permanent peace,” said a explanation published at night. “We are ready to support peace talks.”