MOSCOW, May 6. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal to cease fire for three days in connection with the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day will come into force overnight into May 8, although Ukraine did not pause hostilities for the Easter truce, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"At midnight between May 7 and 8, the 72-hour ceasefire on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 27, will come into effect," she said at a news conference.
"Let me remind you that on May 3, [Vladimir] Zelensky publicly refused to support this initiative, trying to claim that the proposal was not serious," she went on to say. "Let us remind you that, unlike Russia, Ukrainian forces did not even think of ceasing fire on Easter, having violated the ceasefire about 5,000 times."
She mentioned that on April 29 and May 3, Zelensky essentially threatened terrorist attacks during the Victory Day parade in Moscow, saying that he could not guarantee the safety of those who will attend the celebrations in the Russian capital.
"When apparently he realized that he made a blunder again with the threats, true to form, he immediately tried to shift responsibility for possible provocations to Russia, which, he said, is interested in blaming the Kiev regime for everything afterward," the diplomat said.
According to Zakharova, officials and government agencies in Ukraine "always confirm their participation in the implementation of these very terrorist attacks."
"Was it us who shifted some kind of responsibility to the Kiev regime? It was the Kiev regime that admitted to committing murders of Russian journalists, shelling civilian infrastructure and repeated attempts to destroy the Crimean bridge," the diplomat said.