Ukraine rejects ceasefire offer: “A cynical trap”

Created: 01/05/2023 2:48 p.m

By: Nail Akkoyun

The fighting in the Ukraine war continues.

Kyiv describes a temporary ceasefire as an "element of propaganda".

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Kyiv/Moscow – The Ukrainian government in Kyiv has no interest in a short-term ceasefire in the Ukraine war.

This was announced by the Office of President Volodyodmyr Zelenskyy.

They reject the call by Kirill, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, for a ceasefire between Russian and Ukrainian troops for Orthodox Christmas.

"It is a cynical trap and an element of propaganda," Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podoliak wrote on Twitter on Thursday (January 5).

The Russian Orthodox Church is also not an authority in global orthodoxy and only acts as a "war propagandist".

Podoliak accused the Moscow Patriarchate of calling for genocide against the Ukrainian people.

Ukrainian soldiers prepare a tank for battle on the Bakhmut fronts in Donbass.

(Archive photo) © Celestino Arce Lavin/Imago

Earlier, Russian Patriarch Kirill had called for a ceasefire on Friday (January 6) and Saturday (January 7) from both sides in the “internal conflict”.

According to the Orthodox Church calendar followed in Ukraine and Russia, Friday is Christmas Eve and Saturday is Christmas Day.

(nak/dpa)