Ukraine's Zelenskyy rules out a cease-fire with Russia
Newsy
The Ukrainian president says he ruled it out because Russia would use the pause to rearm and regroup.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday ruled out a cease-fire in his country’s war with Russia, saying the Kremlin’s forces would use the pause to rearm and regroup before overwhelming Kyiv’s troops.
“A pause on the Ukrainian battlefield will not mean a pause in the war,” Zelenskyy said during a visit to Estonia.
“A pause would play into (Russia’s) hands,” he said. “It might crush us afterward.”
Limited cease-fires have occasionally been proposed since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 but have never taken hold.
Both sides are scrambling to replenish their weapons after 22 months of fighting and with the prospect of a protracted conflict. With the roughly 630-mile front line mostly static during freezing winter weather, they both require artillery shells, missiles and drones that enable long-range strikes.
