Russia allegedly agrees that ceasefire necessary for Ukraine to hold referendum on territories - Axios

The aggressor country of russia allegedly agrees that a ceasefire is necessary for Ukraine to hold a referendum on territories. The American publication Axios reported this with reference to its own sources.

The publication recalls that earlier, as part of the negotiation process, the United States proposed creating a "free economic zone" in the part of the Donetsk Region that Ukraine continues to hold and that russian troops cannot seize.

At the same time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insists on a symmetrical withdrawal of the russian army from the current front line. He also emphasized that any territorial issues must be approved by a referendum.

An unnamed senior American official told Axios that Moscow had previously opposed a ceasefire until a final agreement was reached. However, now the russians allegedly agree that a ceasefire is necessary for the referendum.

"But if Ukraine wants a 60-day ceasefire, the russians may demand a shorter period," the publication's interlocutor said.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on December 24, Bloomberg wrote, citing its own sources, that russia had neither approved nor rejected the new version of the peace plan to end the russian-Ukrainian war.

Also on December 24, President Zelenskyy revealed the details of the peace plan for the first time. He listed all 20 points that make up the document, and also commented on the most controversial of them.

We also wrote that a special group created to study the issue of holding elections under martial law or in the post-war period has begun work in the Verkhovna Rada.