European leaders visiting Kyiv on Saturday warned of elevated stress and “far-reaching consequences” if Moscow refuses to conform to a 30-day cease-fire within the warfare in Ukraine.
“A just and lasting peace begins with a full and unconditional ceasefire,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X. “If Moscow continues to obstruct, we will step up the pressure – together, as Europeans and in close coordination with the United States.”
Macron famous Ukraine had already accepted a 30-day ceasefire proposal put ahead by Washington on March 11. “Russia, however, delays, sets preconditions, plays for time, and continues its war of invasion,” the president wrote.
The leaders of Ukraine’s 4 key European allies have been collectively urgent for a 30-day ceasefire throughout a coordinated go to to Kiev on Saturday.
Newly appointed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived within the Ukrainian capital by practice alongside Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The trio then met up with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Meanwhile, Merz threatened harder sanctions.
“There will then be a massive tightening of sanctions and there will be further massive aid for Ukraine. Politically anyway, financial aid, but also military aid,” Germany’s new chief advised Bild newspaper.
The US would assist this intensification, Merz stated, noting US President Donald Trump’s diminishing endurance with Russian President Vladimir Putin within the quest to finish the greater than three-year-long warfare.
The ball is now within the Kremlin chief’s courtroom and “Putin must give the answer to this offer,” the conservative chancellor confused.
Source: www.dailysabah.com