Russia’s Putin Orders Cease-Fire in Ukraine for May 8-10, Kremlin Says

President Vladimir V. Putin de Russia ordered a high three -day unilateral fire in Ukraine next week, Kremlin said Monday, Monday, Shortly after President Trump reiterated his frustration with Russia’s refusal to stop war.

The Kremlin said that the Russian forces would stop fighting on May 8 for 72 hours to commemorate the celebration of May 9 of the victory of the Soviet Union in World War II, an important holiday in Russia. The announcement was the second time in two weeks that Russia promised a temporary pause in the fight.

“Duration in this period, all hostilities will cease,” the Kremlin said in a statement. “Russia believes that the Ukrainian side should follow this example.”

Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said the statement “underlines our willingness to rise to the road to a peaceful resolution.”

However, Andrii Sybiha, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, responded to the Kremlin statement saying that “if Russia really wants peace, the fire must cease immediately.” He added that Ukraine remained ready for a 30 -day stand in the fight, something that Mr. Putin has rejected so far.

“Why wait until May 8?” Mr. Sybiha wrote in X. He continued: “Ukraine is ready to support a durable, durable and complete fire.”

The Kremlin announcement occurred a few days after Trump urged Mr. Putin, in a publication on social networks, to “stop!” Bombing Ukraine in the middle of the efforts supported by the United States to negotiate a truce. After meeting with President Volodymyr Zensky or Ukraine on Saturday, Trump said he questioned if Putin really wanted peace.

“Maybe I don’t want to stop the war, he is just taking advantage of me and has to have to treat differently,” Trump wrote in a publication on social networks.

Russia has refused to comply with a high unconditional fire of 30 days that Ukraine previously agreed at the request of the Trump administration. A one -day truce announced by Mr. Putin for Easter did not maintain, he thought that both parties said it brought a reduction in hostilities.

Mr. Putin’s statement on Monday seemed to be his last attempt to placate Trump’s established desire to end the war in Ukraine while resisting an agreement that would allow the Russian leader to do it in his terms.

When asked about the Kremlin announcement, Karoline Leavitt, Mr. Trump’s press secretary, told reporters that the president of the United States “has made it clear that Hey Hens see the permanent fire.”

“While it is still optimistic that it can reach an agreement, it is also realistic, and both leaders must come to the table to negotiate their departure,” Leavitt added.

The Kremlin statement announcing the high fire said that Russia was ready “for peace negotiations without prior conditions.” But he added that these conversations should “head to eliminate the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis”, a reference to the broad demands of change of Mr. Putin in the favor of Russia in Ukraine and in Europe.

Mr. Putin seems convinced that he would renounce the influence of negotiation if he were going to fight without ensuring the great concessions, say Russian analysts and people close to the Kremlin. Their demands go far beyond the statements about the territory of Ukraine, extending to the limits of its future military capacity and the prohibition of admitting it to the NATO alliance.

The Trump administration has gone largely with Mr. Putin’s narrative, hanging the possibility of raising the sanctions to Russia while blaming Ukraine for a war that Russia began in 2022. He has been pressing Ukraine to accept a peace plan that would force him to abandon his aspirations to join NATO, provide only vague security guarantees and have recognized the United States as Russian. Ukraine has rejected that agreement, which the Trump administration described as its final sacrifice.

But Mr. Putin seems to be enduring even more. Media, his refusal to reach a fast treatment, accompanied by the recent Russian missile attacks on civil objectives, has more and more frustrated the Trump administration.

On Sunday, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at the request of Mr. Lavrov, according to a state department spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce. “The United States takes seriously facilitating the end of this Sensess war,” he said in a statement.

Maria Varenikova and Luke Broadwater Contributed reports.