{"id":4770,"date":"2026-05-03T22:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/4770\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:34:03","slug":"polish-prime-minister-donald-tusk-blasts-russias-victory-day-truce-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/4770\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk blasts Russia\u2019s Victory Day truce plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Warsaw does not support Russia&#8221;s proposal for a one-day truce on May 9. In his words, this is not a step toward peace but a political gesture aimed at holding a parade in Moscow. He will not try to persuade Zelenskyy to agree to such terms, according to <a bis_skin_checked=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fb_6KP4b_Eg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janusz Jask\u00f3\u0142ka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is absurd&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tusk made the statement on the eve of the European Political Community summit in Yerevan. According to him, the signal from Moscow boils down to a one-day pause, solely so that Russia can hold its parade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is absurd. I will not in any way try to convince President Zelenskyy to agree to such proposals,&#8221; the Polish prime minister said.<\/p>\n<p>What a real ceasefire looks like<\/p>\n<p>Tusk emphasised that Poland supports only initiatives that could serve as a starting point for genuine peace negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>A real cessation of hostilities should not be symbolic or tied to specific dates \u2014 it must form the foundation of a long-term peace process.<\/p>\n<p>The potential ceasefire around May 9 has been actively discussed in the information space recently. The Centre for Countering Disinformation stressed that the Russian initiative is not aimed at achieving peace but stems from the Kremlin&#8217;s inability to guarantee security even in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/putin-undecided-on-timing-of-may-9-ceasefire-1777549339.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the final decision on a ceasefire must be made personally by Vladimir Putin<\/a>, but has not provided any specific dates or conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian side, for its part, plans to clarify the details of this proposal with the US president&#8217;s team. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasised that <a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/zelenskyy-ukraine-to-contact-trump-team-over-1777538549.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyiv is ready for peace but will not accept tactical manipulations or illusions from the enemy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Warsaw does not support Russia&#8221;s proposal for a one-day truce on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3957,64,9,126,338,127,444],"class_list":{"0":"post-4770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-tusk","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-donald-tusk","10":"tag-poland","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-tusk","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}