“A potentially grandiose day for Russia and Ukraine! Think of the hundreds of thousands of lives that are saved when this endless bloodbath, hopefully, will end. It will be a completely new world, and much better”. The optimism of Donald Trumpagain this time, it is certainly excessive, and on the other hand it is not the first time that the American president lets himself go to auspices and hopes all too favorable on the end of the conflict, but a small step forward, in an attempt to stop hostilities, has been there. To the proposal of the willing European, and specifically of France, Great Britain, Germany and Poland, who in the meeting yesterday in Kiev together with the Ukrainian leaders officially asked, with the support of the United States, a thirty -day truce, Vladimir Putin replied equally Chiara. The head of the Kremlin glissed on the stop to the bombings for a month but has relaunched with another offer, that is, with the resumption of direct negotiation with Ukraine starting from May 15th in Istanbul. It is not the answer that Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Donald Tusk They hoped, and the doubt that even in this case the tsar wants to waste time is more than legitimate, but if only a counter -proposal came from Moscow, personally accepted, in the evening, from Volodymyr Zelensky: “I wait for it in Turkey”, he wrote on X referring to Putin and hoping for “a ceased and lasting fire, starting from tomorrow, to provide the necessary foundations. Extend the killings. Difficult if not impossible that the Tsar is the one to present himself on the Bosphorus but he will not be able to exempt himself, at this point, from sending a delegation that begins to seriously discuss the peace process.
Of course, as Paris pointed today, the opening is only “a first step” and “not sufficient”, because “an unconditional fire is not preceded by negotiations”, but considering the unavailability of Russia, until not long ago, to any direct dialogue with Ukraine, the change of attitude of the Kremlin must be looked at with a minimum of credit. The perplexity remains, absolutely legitimate, that this time Moscow just wants to “earn time”, as Macron said by dialoguing with the journalists who return from Kiev, and Even from Trump’s entourage, in the afternoon, a clarification had arrived at all ambiguous, with the special correspondent Keith Kelllogg who asked for no means a 30 -day unconditional fire before “before, and, during this period, to start global peace discussions. Not the opposite “. But at this point Zelensky’s” yes “spreads the paper. If all a bluff is also Washington will have to take note of it and increase the pressure through further increasingly stringent joint penalties and initiatives.
“Our proposal is on the table and the decision is now up to the Ukrainian authorities and their curators,” Putin said with a strong tone, adding that “whoever wants peace cannot do without Support it “https://gazzettadodelSud.it/articoli/mondo/2025/05/11/guerra-in-ukine-putin-a-hegotiati-zelensky-spetpeti-gavedi-turchia-15523e1d-3443-42c8-850e-11b98D8D5/.” serious negotiations with Ukraine with the aim of eliminating the deep causes of the conflict and establishing lasting peace “. The key point, and the most complicated one to solve, remains the latter, and certainly not the territorial aspect, considering that, de facto more than de jure, that 20% of oriental and southern areas conquered by Moscow, in one way or another, will remain in Russian hands, even if they will never be recognized as such by Kiev. The knot is precisely the future of the country under attack for three years and three months, which according to the Tsar is as demilitarized as possible or at least removed from western influences, While Zelensky and his staff, just in these days, have confirmed the availability of some European governments to send troops to supervise a possible and desired respite. Positions, therefore, still very distant. And the same agreement on minerals and rare lands, which will direct the country more and more towards the American orbit, certainly represents another obstacle to achieve the objectives that the Kremlin had placed at the beginning of the so -called special operation.
A long and tortuous path to get to peace, but at this point, given that there are few other solutions, every road must be tempted, including the one that should bring the two delegations to Istanbul next Thursday. In the meantime, however, just as a cautious opening came from Moscow, on Kiev and bombs continued to rain on the rest of the country. An air alert was taken in the night, just at the end of the three-day mini-triagua announced by Putin on the occasion of the celebrations for the victory in the Second World War. The sirens have resonated both in the areas of Zaporizhzia, Dnipro and Sumy and in other regions of the country, and the contrast immediately put back in action. Not exactly the most favorable signal to start a negotiation that is serious and not just a way, yet another, to earn time and make fun of the counterparty.