Kremlin has rejected US-proposed 30-day cease-fire deal in Ukraine, saying that Russia is only interested in long-term solution of the conflict.
"We believe that our goal is a long-term peaceful settlement, we strive for this, a peaceful settlement that takes into account the legitimate interests of our country, our well-known concerns," an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 13, Thursday.
Commenting on the temporary peace deal agreed between the US and Ukraine during talks in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah city, Ushakov said in an interview with Russia-1 TV channel that "It seems to me that no one needs any steps that imitate peaceful actions in this situation.”
The Kremlin aide further said he told US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz that Russia's position on a temporary truce is that "this is nothing more than a temporary respite for the Ukrainian military, nothing more."
Representatives from the US and Ukraine met in Saudi Arabia to mend the deteriorating ties between the two countries and to reach a peace deal to end the three-year-old war with Russia. Trump said Wednesday that "it's up to Russia now", adding that if Kremlin agrees to ceasefire, "I think that would be 80 percent of the way to getting this horrible bloodbath" ended.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on X: "We must move toward peace, toward security guarantees, and we need to free our people. We are determined to work as quickly as
