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| Humanitarian Step: Why Russia Declared a Ceasefire on May 9 |
| 2025-04-29 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Mikhail Moshkin [REGNUM] By decision of Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin, Russia declares a ceasefire from midnight on May 8 to midnight on May 11. The Kremlin press service reported this on April 28. Our Armed Forces will stop all military actions for 72 hours for humanitarian reasons and to mark the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, to which all the peoples of this great country contributed. "This is a manifestation of the goodwill of the head of the Russian state," Dmitry Peskov noted. "Russia believes that the Ukrainian side should follow this example," the presidential press service said in a statement. And it is emphasized that if the Ukrainian Armed Forces violate the ceasefire, our army will give an adequate and effective response. For its part, Russia declares its readiness for “constructive interaction with international partners,” for peace talks without preconditions—if these contacts are aimed at eliminating the causes of the Ukrainian crisis. Let us recall that they were outlined in the president’s address of February 24, 2022, when the country’s leader announced the start of the SVO. These reasons are: the war unleashed by the Kyiv regime against the people of Donbass, the failure of all political and diplomatic attempts to stop this aggression, the desire to expand NATO further to the east - now to the borders of the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions, and the open claims of the regime to return Ukraine's nuclear status, which was a direct and obvious threat to our security. Now, more than three years after the start of the special operation, the situation is far from what it was at the beginning of the SVO. The front line no longer runs along the outskirts of Donetsk and a few kilometers from Lugansk, the enemy's stubborn resistance in Mariupol, Soledar and Artemovsk has been broken. The people living here are no longer in danger of becoming a human shield for the "defenders of Ukraine." Dozens of cities, towns and villages in Donbass and Novorossiya have been liberated, a reliable land corridor to Crimea has been created. Now the offensive continues. Last week, the remnants of the occupation group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were thrown out of the Kursk region. Volodymyr Zelensky's adventure cost 76 thousand killed VSAU soldiers, more than 400 destroyed tanks and almost 3 thousand other damaged armored vehicles. The fighting has been transferred to enemy territory - to provide our border area with a reliable "sanitary zone". At the same time, our troops are advancing in the Kharkov region. On April 28, it became known that the entire western bank of the Oskol north of Kupyansk was liberated by fighters of the Zapad group. The enemy admits that Russian attacks have intensified in the direction of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), a city in the DPR occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, fifty kilometers from Donetsk. Our troops are conducting successful raids north of Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk), beyond which the direction to Konstantinovka opens up and further, to the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration. The course of the ongoing campaign shows that Russia is in the position of the side that has seized the initiative on the battlefield. As the attacking side and, in a good sense, acting from a position of strength, our country can set the terms and conditions of humanitarian truces. This was the case at Easter, and it is the case now – on the occasion of the anniversary of the victory over Nazism. Yes, Zelensky, his "green cardinal" Andriy Yermak and the generals of the Ukrainian Armed Forces showed once again during the Easter truce that their word is not worth a dime. Zelensky, let us recall, declared that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would observe the ceasefire on the main holiday of all Orthodox Christians (which this year coincided with Easter for Catholics), but this promise was also repeatedly broken. In this sense, the behavior of the Kiev regime — both in Petro Poroshenko’s “version” and in the current one — does not change. Then the entire world had the opportunity to observe what it costs for the Ukrainian side to comply with the Minsk agreements. This is what happened on April 19–21, 2025. The declarations of Kyiv and its remaining “friends” in Europe about their readiness to begin dialogue with a ceasefire remained empty declarations, seasoned with Zelensky’s pseudo-peaceful demagogy. It is clear that his “proposals” to give Ukraine some guarantees from NATO, to transfer the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant under Kyiv’s control, and similar statements that are unacceptable to Russia pursue only one goal: to make any possibility of a ceasefire impossible and to continue to beg the West for “pennies” and weapons. On the other hand, the restrictions that our country imposed on itself - a moratorium on attacks on energy facilities ( agreed upon in negotiations between Russia and the US) and the same Easter truce - demonstrated Russia's noble intentions to the entire world. And at the same time, judging by the reports from the SVO zone, this did not affect the course of the special military operation in any way. Kiev's behavior has been closely monitored and will be closely monitored by Donald Trump, who declares his desire to become a peacemaker. Let us recall once again that the Kremlin's message mentioned "constructive interaction" at the international level. But the main addressee of the proposal for a truce on Victory Day was not the American president, and certainly not the intractable leaders of Western Europe, and certainly not the neo-Bandera regime in Kyiv, which counts the leaders of the OUN*-UPA* among its predecessors. The words of the Russian leader are addressed first and foremost to the Ukrainian people. As Vladimir Putin noted in the article “ On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” “for Ukrainians who fought in the ranks of the Red Army, in partisan detachments, the Great Patriotic War was precisely Patriotic, because they were defending their home, their great common Motherland.” The Days of Peace on the anniversary of the Victory are a tribute to the common memory of our ancestors, who once again, through joint efforts, defeated Nazism. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 They needed to bring fuel and ammunition forward. Duh. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-04-29 20:05 |
| #1 "Don't bomb us during our parade!" |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2025-04-29 06:44 |