“Russia must not hide its desire to continue war behind words,” Andriy Yermak, Zelenskiy’s top aide, said Sunday on Telegram. “Ceasefire first for 30 days, everything else after.” French President Emmanuel Macron, who visited Kyiv on Saturday with leaders of the UK, Germany and Poland, echoed the point in a post on X, saying: “there can be no negotiations while weapons are speaking.”
