Vladimir Putin says the war in Ukraine "comes to an end"and criticizes the support of Western countries for kyiv.

Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine’s supporters of being responsible for prolonging the conflict. “They started to intensify the confrontation with Russia, which continues to this day. I think it is coming to an end, but the situation remains serious”he responded on Saturday May 9 to a question whether Western aid to Ukraine was going too far.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Saturday of violating the temporary ceasefire, with Vladimir Putin ensuring that he still has not received a proposal from Ukraine on the exchange of prisoners announced by Donald Trump. The American president announced Friday evening a three-day ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia starting Saturday.

More “since the start of the day, the number of attacks carried out by the aggressor has reached 51”a indicated l’état-major ukrainien. De son côté, the Russian minister of defense declared that “despite the ceasefire declaration, Ukrainian armed groups launched attacks using drones and artillery”. Drones fired by Russia killed two civilians and injured three in the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions of central Ukraine, according to local authorities.