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Moscow (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia agreed to the proposal of the US ceasefire, but the conditions must be worked out. He emphasized that it should pave the way to permanent peace.

“We agree with the suggestions to stop the fights, but we assume that the armistice should lead to permanent peace and remove the causes of the crisis,” said Putin.

Putin noticed that the Ukrainian troops circled in the Course Region of Russia in their last stop, and it is necessary to determine before a ceasefire, whether they put up and result in weapons.

He also noticed that it is necessary to develop a mechanism in order to control possible violations of the ceasefire. Another problem, he said, is whether Ukraine could use the 30-day ceasefire to continue mobilization and resumption.

This is a breaking news update. The earlier history of AP follows below.

A Messenger from US President Donald Trump arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks about an American company 30-day armistice This Ukraine has accepted, but a high -ranking Russian official said that the ceasefire would only help Kyiv Tired and short military A break.

The diplomatic effort fell together with a Russian assertion that her troops from a key town to the Ukrainian army into the Russia’s course border regionWhere Moscow has been trying to remove the Ukrainian troops from their hold for seven months.

A US official confirmed the arrival of Trump’s special officer. Steve Witkoff. The official spoke about the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on the matter.

The “Ministry of Department of Department, the city of Sudzha, who was a Ukrainian operational center in Kursk, came back hours after President Vladimir Putin visited his commanders in Kursk. The claim could not be verified independently. The Ukrainian officials did not make an immediate comment.

The renewed Russian military boost and Putin’s top -class visit to his troops developed when Trump was looking for a diplomatic end of the war that began more than three years ago Russia’s full invasion.

The USA on Tuesday raised his lock on March 3rd of military help for Kyiv after high -ranking US and Ukrainian civil servants had reported that progress in the end of the fights can be stopped during the talks in Saudi Arabia.

Trump said on Wednesday that “it is now up to Russia” when his government is pressing Moscow to agree to the ceasefire. The US President has made veiled threats to hit Russia with new sanctions if he does not deal with peace efforts.

The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov would not comment on Moscow’s perspective on the ceasefire proposal.

“Before the talks start and they have not started, it would be wrong to talk about it in public,” he said.

The US Finance Minister Scott Bessent told CNBC on Thursday that Trump was “ready to exert a maximum pressure on both sides”, including sanctions that reach the highest scale in Russia.

High -ranking US officials said that they hope that Russia will stop attacks on Ukraine in the next few days.

Russia complains about the proposal of the ceasefire

Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy advisor, complained on Thursday in television races that a ceasefire would grant a “temporary break for the Ukrainian military”.

Later Putin’s external beginning, Yuri Ushakov, confirmed that the proposed ceasefire would “give us nothing”, and added that “the Ukrainians would only give the chance to group again, to strengthen their armed forces and continue to do the same in the future.

Ushakov would not comment on Witkoff’s conversations in Moscow and said that the parties agreed to keep them confidentially.

He said Russia wanted a “long -term peaceful settlement that takes into account the interests and concerns of Moscow”. Putin repeated his comments, who repeatedly said that a temporary ceasefire would benefit Ukraine and its western allies.

Ukraine has raised allegations similar to that of Ushakov and claims that Russia would use an armistice to group and recover.

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed Russia in the Telegram -Messaging -app on Thursday because of his slow response to the ceasefire proposal and accused Moscow of delaying a peace agreement. He said that Ukraine is “determined to move quickly towards peace” and hoped that the pressure from the United States would force Russia to fight.

The United States still have around 3.85 billion US dollars in the Congress authorized funds for future arms deliveries to Ukraine, but the Trump government has so far not been interested in using this authority to send additional weapons because it expects the result of peace outlets.

By signaling Ukraine its openness to an armistice at a time when the Russian military has the upper hand in the war presented the Kremlin a dilemma – Whether you accept a ceasefire and give up hope of making new profits or rejecting the offer and derailing a careful approach to Washington.

The stop of the Ukrainian army in Russia Under intensive pressure For months after the new efforts of the Russian armed forces, Supported by North Korean troops. The daring inventory of Ukraine in August last August led to the first line -up of Russian soil by foreign troops since the Second World War and embarrassed the Kremlin.

Putin visits Russian military commander

Putin spoke to commanders on Wednesday and said that he expects the military to “completely free the Kursk region from the enemy in the near future”.

Putin wore military fatigue and added that “it is necessary to create a security zone next to the state border” in a signal that Moscow could try to expand its territorial profits by capturing parts of the Ukrainian neighboring Sumy region. This idea could complicate a ceasefire contract.

Ukraine started the attack to counteract the incessantly dark news from the front and to pull away Russian troops in Ukraine from the battlefield and to receive a negotiation chip in peace talks. However, the idea did not significantly change the dynamics of the war.

The Institute for the Investigation of War, a thought factory based in Washington, rated on Wednesday that the Russian armed forces had control over Sudzha, a city near the border in which around 5,000 people previously lived.

The highest military commander of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that Russian aircraft had carried out an unprecedented number of strikes against Kursk and that Sudzha was almost completely destroyed. He did not say whether Ukraine still controlled the settlement, but said that his country was “maneuvering (troops) more advantageous lines”.

In the meantime, Major Dmytro Krasylnykov, commander of the northern Ukraine command, which also includes the Kursk region, was released from his post, he told the Ukrainian Media outlet Suspilne on Wednesday. He told the outlet that he had no reason for his release and said: “I suspect, but I don’t want to talk about it yet.”

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Associated Press Writer Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed to this report.

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This story was corrected to show that Suzha is an important Ukrainian military center, not the largest city of Kursk.