{"id":1381134,"date":"2026-04-12T14:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/a-few-kilometers-away-the-kremlin-made-a-cynical-statement-about-the-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:10:15","slug":"a-few-kilometers-away-the-kremlin-made-a-cynical-statement-about-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-few-kilometers-away-the-kremlin-made-a-cynical-statement-about-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJust a Few Kilometers Away\u201d: Kremlin Downplays War Reality Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"94\" data-end=\"266\"><strong>The Russian dictator&#8217;s spokesman, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Dmitry Peskov,<\/span><\/span> stated that territorial disagreements between Ukraine and Russia allegedly &#8220;consist of only a few kilometers.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"94\" data-end=\"266\">RosSMI writes about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"458\">He also claims that achieving a lasting peace is already possible, but, according to him, for that to happen, Ukrainian President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/span><\/span> must make &#8220;certain decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"597\">Peskov stated, &#8220;The special operation will persist until Zelenskyy demonstrates courage and assumes responsibility for his decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"796\">Furthermore, the Kremlin called the so-called &#8220;Easter truce&#8221; a &#8220;humanitarian gesture&#8221; by Vladimir Putin, emphasizing that Easter is a common holiday for Russians and Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"798\" data-end=\"986\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">At the same time, such statements contrast with the reality of the fighting, the scale of the occupied territories, and numerous reports of ceasefire violations by Russian troops.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p>As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/putin-oholosyv-velykodnie-peremyr-ia-kreml\/\">Russian dictator Vladimir Putin previously announced an &#8220;Easter truce.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it is known that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rf-vidmovylas-prodovzhuvaty-velykodnie-peremyr-ia-i-vysunula-umovu-myru\/\">Russia does not plan to continue the so-called Easter truce<\/a>, which it has described as purely humanitarian.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamyi&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian dictator&#8217;s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, stated that territorial disagreements between Ukraine and Russia allegedly &#8220;consist of only a few kilometers.&#8221; &nbsp; RosSMI writes about the issue. &nbsp; He also claims that achieving a lasting peace is already possible, but, according to him, for that to happen, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy must make &#8220;certain decisions.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1254956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1381134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381316,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381134\/revisions\/1381316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}