Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on Friday said Kyiv has begun examining how to monitor any ceasefire along the frontline of its war with Russia, which runs for over 1,300 km.
Sybiha also announced that a team would be set up to consider how to monitor any truce.
President Donald Trump of the United States is urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept a ceasefire proposal that Washington negotiated with Ukraine.
Recall that Putin on Thursday welcomed the plan in principle but laid out a list of conditions, suggesting that there would be no rapid agreement from Moscow, and prompting scepticism in Kyiv.
“In order to avoid possible provocations from the Russian side, we need to be prepared,” Sybiha said.
The minister was part of the Ukrainian delegation that met with American representatives in Saudi Arabia
He said Kyiv supported Washington’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the full-scale invasion launched by Russia three years ago.
According to him, the monitoring would be complex, recalling Ukraine’s negative experience with truces under the German- and French-backed Minsk process with the insurgency that Russia backed in eastern Ukraine from 2014 onward.
In a survey published on Friday by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, 50% of respondents opposed ceding any territory in exchange for peace and a guarantee of independence, compared to 51% in December, while 39% were in favour.
