{"id":4519,"date":"2026-05-07T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:57:00","slug":"volodymyr-zelensky-v-moscow-over-the-ceasefire-of-9-may-absolute-cynicism-and-a-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4519","title":{"rendered":"Volodymyr Zelensky v. Moscow over the &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; of 9 May: Absolute cynicism and a trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">A strong <b>attack<\/b> has been launched by <b data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"27\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/b> against <b>Russian leadership<\/b>, describing the limited <b>ceasefire<\/b> for &#8220;Victory Day&#8221; as an <b>attempt at communication exploitation<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The <b>Ukrainian president<\/b>, in his latest message, denounced Moscow&#8217;s stance as <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"81\">&#8220;strange and inappropriate&#8221;<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Jelensky <\/b>underlined the absurdity of the Russian side, which, he said, <b>seeks to stop the war for just one hour<\/b> &#8211; the duration of the Red Square parade &#8211; only to resume immediately after the killing of civilians. &#8220;<b>They are asking for permission to walk through Red Square and then continue killing people<\/b>,&#8221; he said, calling it <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"486\">absolute cynicism<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><b> Zelensky recalled that Ukraine had earlier proposed its own ceasefire<\/b> (from midnight on May 5-6), but which was <b>rejected in practice by Russia<\/b> with <b>new attacks<\/b> and <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"196\">70 glide bombs<\/b> in a matter of hours. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">At the same time, he called on the <b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"269\">United States<\/b> to demonstrate the same &#8220;<b>fair and strong stance&#8221; <\/b>that it took in <b>World War II<\/b>, believing that only in this way can peace in Europe be ensured against the aggressor<\/b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">The Ukrainian leader did not fail to send a message to <b>leaders of neighboring countries<\/b> who plan to attend the May 9 celebrations in Moscow, urging them to <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"170\">review their stance<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">For its part, the <b data-path-to-node=\"8\" data-index-in-node=\"23\">Russian Defense Ministry<\/b> is keeping tensions high, announcing a <b>ce a ceasefire from midnight on May 8 to May 10, but accompanying it with a blunt threat<\/b>: Moscow threatened a <b>strong strike on central Kiev<\/b> if Ukraine attempted to disrupt the parade. <\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"9\"><\/ul>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volodymyr Zelensky launched a strong attack on the Russian leadership, describing the limited ceasefire for &#8220;Victory Day&#8221; as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}