This is absurd. Polish Prime Minister criticizes May 9 truce for Moscow parade

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticized russia's proposal for a one-day truce with Ukraine on May 9. According to him, this is not a step towards peace, but a political gesture for the parade in Moscow.

He said this at a briefing on the eve of the European Political Community summit in Yerevan, quoted by RBC-Ukraine.

"This is absurd. I will in no way persuade President Zelenskyy to agree to such proposals," the Polish Prime Minister said.

According to him, the signal from Moscow boils down to a one-day pause solely for the parade to take place in russia.

The Polish Prime Minister stressed that his country supports only those initiatives that can become the beginning of real peace talks.

According to him, a real ceasefire should not be symbolic or tied to specific dates - it should become the basis of a long-term peace process.

As we will recall, earlier, the spokesman for the russian leader Dmitry Peskov said that russia does not need Ukraine's consent to declare a ceasefire on May 9.

The day before, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed Ukrainian negotiators to find out from the United States the details of the russian proposal for silence on May 9.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, US President Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with russian dictator vladimir putin on April 29 and said that an agreement to end the war in Ukraine was close. He also said that he had offered the Kremlin leader a "short ceasefire."