Moscow plays a hard ball by a high fire agreement as US officials in Russia

American negotiators are in Moscow for the ceasefire conversations of the Ukraine War on Thursday, but Russia’s disposition to buy the terms of a temporary truce devised without his contribution is still in doubt.

Russia is under pressure to register in the White House. High agreement of 30 daysHe says that the United States will show if the Kremlin takes the end of the war against Ukraine seriously.

The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said on Wednesday that the ball was in the court of Russia after he and Ukrainian officials reached a high fire agreement at the beginning of the week. Meanwhile, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Wednesday that it would be financially “devastating” for Russia if I did not agree with a truce, hinting that more sanctions could be imposed on the country if he did not accept.

But the environmental music that came out of Moscow on Thursday before the conversations was not positive. The Russian presidential assistant Yuri Ushakov refrained from telling the state media if Russia will reject the Trump Fire’s high agreement, but pointed out that a truce would give Ukraine the opportunity to boost their forces.

Ushakov said he had transmitted this position to the United States National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, during a call on Wednesday.

“This is nothing more than a temporary respite for the Ukrainian army, nothing more. We believe that our goal remains a long -term peaceful agreement, we strive for this. A peaceful agreement that takes into account the legitimate interests of our country: our concerns,” he said, according to a translation of NBC news.

The comments occur after an American delegation led by Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, arrived in Moscow to talk on Thursday, confirmed the Kremlin, while tempereding the expectations about the possible result of the meeting.

“The negotiators are flying, in fact, the contacts are scheduled,” said Kremlin press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, to journalists on Thursday, according to NBC News Reporting, and added: “We do not move forward, we will tell you later. There have already been contacts.”

The Kremlin initially delivered a silenced reaction to the proposal of Alto El Fuego, asking for more details.

The deal, as established in a joint statementI would see that all military activities would cease and could extend beyond the initial period of 30 days by mutual agreement. The draft agreement also requires “the exchange of prisoners of war, the release of civil detainees and the return of Ukrainian children transferred by force to Russia.”

As part of the plan, the United States immediately lifted its pause by sharing intelligence with Ukraine, as well as military aid.

Russia has already indicated several of its red lines on any future peace agreement, repeatedly declaring, even Thursday, that it will not tolerate the deployment of foreign troops in Ukraine, or the construction of foreign military bases in the country.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has not yet commented on the agreement and, in the last 24 hours, he made the army fatigue to visit the Russian region of Kursk that has been partially occupied by the Ukrainian forces after an incursion last August.

The rare visit of Putin to the first line was seen a demonstration of the Kremlin initiative in the war, with the forces of Russia obtaining stable profits in eastern Ukraine and His Ministry of Defense alleges that the entire Kursk region will soon take.

Analysts say it will be a fight for Russia to avoid what Andrius tura, advisor to central and eastern Europe in Teneo, described as a “high -fire curved ball” of Ukraine and the United States, but they are also skeptical that Moscow will agree, or remain, an agreement of high fire. There have already been some complaints of discontent in Moscow, with a senior Russian official who declared Wednesday That any agreement would be in the terms of Moscow, not in Washington’s.

“Ukraine resumed the initiative by appearing as the partner willing to a high fire agreement and now how will Putin play this?”, Tim Ash, senior strategist of emerging markets in RBC Bluebay Asset Management, said in the comments sent by email on Thursday that “if you do not agree with a fire fire, it is revealed as the actor of Malign Trump “.

Volodymyr Dubovyk, academic and analyst at the Center for the Analysis of European Policies (CEPA), commented on Wednesday that the Ukrainian-United States meeting could be seen as an “advance.”

“The question is: an advance towards what exactly? The main questions remain the same as before the agreement. What will be Moscow’s answer? I think he can play, pretending that he also wants peace.” He noticed Wednesday.

Sam Greene, an expert in Russia in CEPA, said that Russia’s agreement to the proposal would not be close.

“With the immediate acceptance of a high fire that is unlikely to occur, the frustration of the White House can lead to renewed demands of Ukrainian concessions. Europe must move quickly to help reduce kyiv’s dependence in Washington, with a particular emphasis on intelligence and aerial defense, so insult both Ukraine, both of the Russian attack and the American attack,” “,”, “,”, “, insults Ukraine and the American inconsistency”, “,”, “,”, “. He said in Wednesdayadding that there is also no “space for complacency when it comes to the dynamics of Washington-Mudu”.