#UKRAINERUSSIAWAR. Washington aims for 30-day truce. Moscow does not want to lose the advantages gained at the front

 

Bloomberg publishes the details of the agreement between Ukraine and the United States on underground resources: The United States and Ukraine will try to create conditions for increasing investment in mining, energy and related technologies in Ukraine. Washington recognizes that the agreement should not contradict Ukraine's plans to join the EU. The United States agreed that only future military assistance that it could provide to Ukraine after the signing of the agreement would be counted in its contribution to the fund.

US President Donald Trump said that Ukraine will be destroyed very soon: "I think I am saving this country. I think this country will be destroyed very soon. This is a big war machine. Let's face it."

Bloomberg also claims that Steve Witkoff tried to convince Putin to agree to end the conflict with the current positions. According to the agency, the Russian president does not agree and demands that in the peace agreement all parts of the Zaporizhia, Kherson and Donbas regions that remain under Ukrainian control be transferred to Moscow's control.

US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said that the American leader is in favor of introducing a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, with the possibility of extension. This proposal was put forward by Ukraine. "The president wants a full ceasefire for at least 30 days, and then we can extend it. If you look at everything the Ukrainians are willing to work on, now it's up to the Russians, to Putin. "I think we're close," Keith Kellogg told Fox News.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb has admitted that Ukraine will have to make territorial concessions that "reflect the situation on the battlefield." He said this in an interview with The New York Times. "He acknowledged that [Ukraine] will have to make compromises on the territory, which reflect the reality of the battlefield," the publication said. At the same time, Stubb said that his country does not recognize these territories as Russian.

Germany negatively assesses the recent Easter truce in Ukraine and calls on Russia to accept a permanent ceasefire instead of the truce declared during the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Victory, the German Foreign Ministry told RIA Novosti.

European leaders will not be in Kiev on May 9, Politico writes. According to the publication, Polish Prime Minister Tusk will instead travel to Nancy to sign a security agreement with Macron. British Prime Minister Starmer plans to attend the Oslo defense summit, while new German Chancellor Merz does not want to give up a full team.

A new Rada bill suggests that Ukrainians over 60 could be allowed to sign a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine: "The officers will have to obtain additional approval from the General Staff," added the secretary of the Security Committee, Roman Kostenko.

The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Borysov Yermak answered a question about negotiations with Russia: “The only way to peace is to defeat Russia’s imperial ambitions, not to legalize them through another ‘temporary truce’. The situation at the front remains very difficult. According to the head of the Sumy Oblast administration: “the Russian army is trying to create a new buffer zone in the region, but so far without success.” Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Stanislavovich Syrsky insisted: “The Russian army has significantly increased the intensity of military operations at the front. The main efforts of the Russian Armed Forces are concentrated in the Pokrovsk direction: their goal is to reach the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Earlier, the mandatory evacuation of families with children in some settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk region was announced.

From Russia Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov responded to reporters by saying: “Russia will develop relations with the United States without harming its partners. Everyone will soon see that Russia and the United States have a mutual interest in constructive dialogue, he noted.” Lavrov said: “The Russian proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine is the beginning of direct negotiations Lavrov. We do not see any possibility of honest monitoring of compliance with a long-term ceasefire in Ukraine.”

At the Znanie educational marathon, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “All of Putin’s decisions on the special operation are correct and the duty of Russians is to win. Russia is lucky to have Putin as its president. Only under Vladimir Putin did Russia manage to repay the United States for the loan-lease it provided to the USSR during World War II.” “In general, Lend-Lease was a paid service, and we, as the Soviet Union and then as the successor to the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, paid for it in full,” the Kremlin representative noted. “And Russia paid the consequences under Putin in 2006,” he recalled. “In 2006, President Putin made the last payments under the Lend-Lease program.” “$11 billion was spent on the Lend-Lease program,” Peskov stressed. “If you consider it in our modern currency, it is about $200 billion.” Peskov also said about the peace agreement: "it must be reached with Ukraine, not with the United States". "The Russian Federation must achieve the goals set at the beginning of the special operation". On Zelensky's threats regarding the May 9 parade, he said: "The Victory Parade in Moscow will be held and we will watch it with pride"

And now a look at the front line updated at 00:00 on May 1. Concentrated attacks with geraniums in Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk.

In the Bryansk region, Ukrainian forces attacked Novye Yurkovichi in the Klimovsky district, using drones.

In the direction of Sumy, Russian forces are advancing near Loknya, trying to reach Yunakivka, the road leading to the Kursk region. In the western part of the penetration into the defense Russian, Ukrainian Armed Forces report assault actions by Russian Armed Forces in the village of Bilovody (south of the settlement of Zhuravka).

In the border area of ​​Kursk, a clash is underway between Russian troops and several groups of Ukrainian infantry. In the Sumy region, south of the village of Oleshnya, special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to operate. In the south of the region, in the morning, Ukrainian troops attempted to transfer an assault group into the border forest zone in the direction of Goptarovka; the Ukrainian infantry was fired upon by the Russians. Ukrainian Armed Forces are launching attacks from the territory of the Sumy region, including against Russian rear areas. Civilian buildings, including a kindergarten, were also damaged.

In the Belgorod section of the state border, a Ukrainian assault group attempted to infiltrate towards Demidovka, bypassing Myropillya through forest strips, and was hit by Russian forces - OSINT sources - artillery fire and FVP drones on Ukrainian territory. Two people were killed and three were injured. Oktyabrsky, Otradnoye, Shebekino, Rzhevka, Sobolevka, Bogun-Gorodok, Plotvyanka farm, Smorodino, Borisovka, Gruzskoye, Klimovoye, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Murom, Pochaevo, Nikolskoye are under constant attack.

South of Pokrovs'k, battles are taking place in the area of ​​Uspenivka, Novooleksandrivka, Kotlyarivka. In the eastern part of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

High-intensity reciprocal attacks are underway in the direction of South Donetsk, Russian armed forces are trying to break through Ukrainian defenses near Odradne, Bahatyr and Vil'ne Pole. Ukrainian armed forces are counterattacking with infantry, losing armored vehicles in the counterattacks.

Heavy fighting is underway on the Zaporizhia front near Shcherbaki, Malaya Tokmachka and Stepove. Numerous Ukrainian drones and artillery strikes are blocking the actions of the offensive Russians and the battles are becoming positional in nature. The Ukrainians have carried out several drone strikes.

Graziella Giangiulio