Looks like a trap: Putin's "hard" will agree to the truce - Reuters

To spread: Russian sources have said that the ceasefire proposal does not include the Kremlin conditions. In Moscow, they fear that the pause on the battlefield will make the Russian Federation weaker. Russia is skeptical of the US proposal for a 30-day truce agreed with Ukraine during negotiations in Saudi Arabia. This was reported with reference to sources on March 12 in Reuters. Russian sources have questioned that Russian President Vladimir Putin will agree to the ceasefire.

According to them, any agreement should take into account the progress of the occupiers on the Kremlin's battlefield. The unnamed interlocutor stressed that aggressor country needs certain guarantees. "It is difficult for Putin to agree with this in his current form. Putin has a strong position because Russia goes forward," he said.

The media said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation now control just less than 20% of the territory of Ukraine - about 113,000 square kilometers of territories. At the same time, the Armed Forces captured a piece of hostile lands, but control over them weakens. The source explained that the ceasefire without guarantees would make the Russian Federation weaker, and will allow the West to blame Moscow of not finishing the war.

Another interlocutor stated that Washington's offer looks like a trap, because Putin will be difficult to stop fighting without specific guarantees or promises. The third source stressed that in general, the United States agreed to restore military assistance to Ukraine and provide it with intelligence, decorating this step with a proposal for a truce. The Kremlin does not officially comment on the proposal. The publication added that earlier Putin repeatedly excluded a temporary ceasefire.

He stated that Russia "did not need a truce", but only "long -term peace, provided with guarantees. " In June 2024, he declared the following conditions of peace: Ukraine's official refusal to ambitions on NATO, withdrawing Ukrainian troops from the territories of four regions (Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia). On Russian television, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statements were called "quite naive" for negotiations.

In the Russian deputy Konstantin Kosachev assured that peace will be under the conditions of the Russian Federation. Recall that Politico published the details of the peace plan proposed by Washington. The United States did not promise any guarantees to Ukraine, but warned of the need for concessions in the territories. The media also drew attention to the fact that there was no special representative of the US and Russia Kellogo Kelloga in negotiations in Saudi Arabia.