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Andreï Zvyagintsev’s appeal to Putin for peace in Ukraine ignored by the Kremlin Andreï Zvyagintsev receives the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, May 23, 2026. VALERY HACHE/AFP The appeal to stop the “carnage” in Ukraine launched at the Cannes Film Festival by Russian director Andreï Zvyagintsev to Vladimir Putin will not be transmitted to the Russian president, said Monday, Dmitri Peskov, the spokesperson of the Kremlin. When a journalist asked him during a briefing if this call had been relayed to Vladimir Putin, his spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, clarified: “For my part, I will not do it. I don’t think anyone will. The only thing that matters to me,” he continued, “is that Zvyagintsev never condemned the bloody massacre carried out by the kyiv regime in Donbass since 2014, when the war began. If he had done so at the time, he would undoubtedly have had his say. But he no longer has this right,” said Dmitri Peskov. In 2014, Moscow led a revolt by pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass, an industrial and mining basin in eastern Ukraine with a Russian-speaking majority, to which kyiv responded by sending the army. This conflict constituted the start of the large-scale Russian offensive launched in February 2022. Asked last week about a possible release of Minotaur in Russian theaters, Dmitri Peskov explained that “it is not really within the Kremlin’s responsibility. It is our Ministry of Culture which issues distribution authorizations.” On Saturday, Andreï Zvyagintsev, who won the Grand Prix at Cannes for Minotaur, called in his acceptance speech on Russian President Vladimir Putin to put an end to the “carnage” over the war in Ukraine. “Millions of people on both sides of the front line dream of only one thing, that the massacres stop,” said the director, speaking in Russian translated into French by an interpreter. “The only person who can put an end to this butchery is the President of the Russian Federation. Put an end to this carnage, the whole world is waiting for it,” he pleaded.
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