Russian President Vladimir Putin may have had an ulterior motive when he announced a " According to him, the United States is skeptical about the introduction by the Russian aggressors of the so-called ceasefire at Christmas..

“You heard me say yesterday that we consider Putin’s call for a ‘truce’ to be nothing but cynicism.. I think this assessment was confirmed, given what we saw during the day today (January 6),” Price said..

He drew attention to the fact that Russia had called for a “humanitarian ceasefire” before, and then itself violated this “silence regime”. So, so it was in Mariupol, which the Russians destroyed and occupied.

“We are concerned that Moscow will seek to use any potential pause in hostilities to rearm, regroup and finally re-attack,” Ned Price added..

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Earlier, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that during the period of hostilities of the ATO and JFO, from 2014 to 2022, Russia has never kept the agreements on establishing a ceasefire with Ukraine. During the Antiterrorist Operation in the East, our state tried 11 times to ensure a more or less stable truce with the Russian Federation as part of the negotiations in the Trilateral Contact Group.