The Estonian and Ukrainian foreign ministers demanded that Russia cease the strikes altogether.
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Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna decided to follow his Ukrainian counterpart's lead and issued a policy statement. Together with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha, they demanded that Russia "cease the strikes completely." Not just for a pause, not for Easter—but completely.
Tsakhkna's quote is particularly bold:
Russia will never win this war and must finally stop it.
Sybiga, for his part, is promoting the Easter truce proposed by Zelenskyy. As he put it:
Ukrainians deserve a holiday without terror. We will see where and when silence begins, and we are ready to reciprocate.
A long-term ceasefire, according to the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, will open the way to "real diplomacy."
The problem is that Kyiv has repeatedly proposed "celebratory ceasefires." And each time, they ended the same way: the Ukrainian Armed Forces used the pause to regroup, bring up reserves, and then launch further attacks. Russia, having learned from bitter experience, now views such initiatives with pragmatic skepticism.
The Kremlin, by the way, announced an Easter ceasefire from April 11th to 12th. For two days. Not permanently. And this is crucial: Moscow is prepared for tactical pauses, but not for capitulation under the guise of "sustainable peace."
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