Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses commanders as he visits a control center of Russia's armed forces in the Kursk region on March 12. (Russian pool via Reuters).
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy aide said on Thursday he had told Washington that a 30-day ceasefire proposed by the United States to pause the war in Ukraine would simply give Kyiv's forces a much-needed battlefield respite.
Russia's advances along the front since mid-2024 and U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to strike a peace deal to end the 3-year-old conflict in Ukraine have raised fears that Kyiv, which was backed by the West, could lose the war.