Kyiv Review How To Watch Ukraine-Russia Armistice

The impact of the Russian attack on Ukraine/DOK PHOTO via X @andrii_sybiha

JAKARTA - Kyiv began reviewing how to monitor the ceasefire along its warline with Russia, which stretches for more than 1,300 km (800 miles).

US President Donald Trump urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept a proposed ceasefire that Washington negotiated with Ukraine.

Putin on Thursday welcomed the plan in principle but put forward a number of conditions, hinting there would be no quick deal from Moscow, and sparked skepticism in Kyiv.

"To avoid possible provocations from the Russian side, we need to prepare," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha told reporters on Friday, March 14.

As reported by Reuters, Sybiha said the team would be formed to consider how to monitor the ceasefire.

On Thursday, Sybiha posted on X writing "Putin is trying to continue the war. The rest of his words are just a cover of smoke."

Sybiha is part of a Ukrainian delegation who met with American representatives in Saudi Arabia and said Kyiv supported Washington's 30-day ceasefire proposal in a full-scale Russian-launched invasion three years ago.

Ukraine's foreign minister said surveillance would be complicated, given Ukraine's negative experience with a ceasefire under Germany-backed Minsk processes with Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine since 2014 onwards. Russia now controls about a fifth of Ukraine's territory.

In a survey published Friday by the Kyiv Institute of International Sociology, 50% of respondents opposed the delivery of any territory in exchange for peace and independence guarantees, compared to 51% in December, while 39% supported.