Putin announced the Christmas Truce in Ukraine: there was a reaction of the United States, Germany and NATO

I wonder that he was ready to bombard hospitals, kindergartens and churches on the 25th and the New Year," Biden said. "I think he needs a break," the White House Head added. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he did not see changes in Moscow's position against Ukraine. He insists that the Kremlin needs "part of Europe that could control the neighboring country.

" "Nothing points to the change of President Putin's plans, his goals in Ukraine," Stoltenberg said in the Norway capital Oslo after Putin announced a "Christmas ceasefire. " Putin's statement about the truce for Christmas took place after a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Taiip Erdogan, who called on the Russian President to declare ceasefire unilaterally.

On Thursday, January 5, after the morning telephone conversation with Putin, the Turkish leader called President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and reported that Turkey was ready to assign an intermediary mission in negotiations between Kiev and Moscow to achieve long -term peace. In transcripts on the website of the office of the President of Turkey, it is also reported about the proposal of diplomatic support to Ukraine for Zaporizhzhya NPP.

Turkey has become a mediator in the Grain Agreement between the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the UN. For his part, German Foreign Minister Annalen Berb said that if Putin really wanted peace, "he would have sent his soldiers home. " "The so -called ceasefire does not carry freedom or security for people who live under Russian occupation daily," the head of the diplomatic agency said. The adviser to the chairman of the OP of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak called the Kremlin's statement "hypocrisy".

According to him, the "temporary agreement" will be possible only if Russia leaves the occupied territories in Ukraine. "Leave hypocrisy to yourself," the adviser wrote on Twitter. Recall that the Kremlin answered rumors about Putin's trip to Donetsk during the "Christmas truce". The head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu declared a ceasefire regime across the front line from noon on January 6 to north of the 7th.