“A scam”. This is how has been considered, for less than twenty-four hours on the Russian Internet, the ceasefire proposal in Ukraine presented by the United States. If the reactions surge on social networks in Russia, they contrast with the silence and prudence of the diplomats of this country, which have not yet commented on the idea of a truce on the Ukrainian front.
Accepted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after several hours of talks in Saudi Arabia on the night of March 11 to 12, the thirty -day truce agreement is just waiting for the green light from Moscow. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that American representatives would meet their Russian counterparts “tomorrow”, while he also plans to speak personally with the Russian head of state Vladimir Putin “this week”. “We are not excluding contacts with representatives of the United States in the coming days,” only replied the spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova.
According to the first reactions, a cease-fire agreement seems far from satisfactory for the ruling class and a number of Russian nationalists, who criticize Washington’s support in kyiv. One of the few Russian politicians to have expressed himself, the deputy for Duma (lower room of the Russian Parliament) Viktor Sobolev, speaks of an “unacceptable and plays in favor of Ukraine”. Senator Konstantin Kossatchev, vice-president of the Federation Council (the Russian Senate) and member of the International Affairs Committee, insisted on the need for a compromise concluded “on our conditions, not those of the Americans”.
“Little friendly gesture from Trump”
Certain conservative voices within the Russian elite are even more vehement. “A ceasefire is clearly not what we need,” said far-right ideologist Alexandre Douguine “. Before qualifying the resumption of American military aid to kyiv, interrupted for ten days, and the sharing of intelligence” little friendly gesture on the part of Trump “.
Despite Washington’s alignment with Russian interests since the altercation with President Zelensky in the Oval Office, on February 28, pro-Kremlin ideologists do not consider Trump as an ally of Moscow. The cease-fire proposal is above all perceived as an “operation” led by “the United Kingdom, France, and Ukraine” to “deceive” the American president, according to the political scientist Pro Kremlin Sergeï Markov. A narrative that was taken over on state television channels this Tuesday. The commentator judges that the only way for Russia to accept a truce would be “an embargo on arms delivered to Ukraine for the duration of the ceasefire” by the “coalition” of Western countries which support kyiv.
“For the West, this is an opportunity to win points by pretending to be peaceful craftsmen. This is why it is useless to be seduced by exhortations to peace: they will forget it at the first opportunity,” argues the Telegram “Rybar” channel, reputed to be close to the Ministry of Russian Defense.
“We will realize that we were deceived”
The communities of military bloggers on the Telegram social network, which ardently defending a close vision of the war since 2022, have not surprised the proposal with violence. “Go see with your peace initiatives!” Cingle the military correspondent Alexander Kots.
This proposal is “illogical”, adds the blogger Barbe Bleue Z. This means that we must accept to stop our offensive so that the Ukrainians regroup, constitute reservations, that the “Yankees” provide them with weapons and information. All this so that in a month, the fights resume […] ? “
Many Telegram channels point out that Truce’s proposal occurs not only when the Ukrainian army loses ground in Donbass, but also fell back into the Russian territories of Koursk that the kyiv forces had taken and checked since the summer of 2024. The Russian Defense Ministry said this March 12 said that it had taken up five localities located near Sudja, the main Ukrainian position in the Russian oblast. “Thirty days? This is enough for Soudja’s scum to heal its wounds,” gets the Telegram channel “Mordor’s voice”. If the agreement is signed, “once again, we will realize that we were deceived”, summarizes the “Colonelcassad” account.
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