"Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer" to Ukrainian troops in the Kursk area to lay down their arms "is still valid, but time is running out," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Tass.
Putin's proposal yesterday to spare the Ukrainian soldiers who will lay down their arms in Kursk "is still valid," Peskov stressed, who then quoted a novel by Honoré de Balzac to affirm that "their time is shrinking like a shagreen skin."
In the novel, the protagonist has a piece of magical skin that grants his every wish , but each time it decreases in size until it disappears, and at his death.
(Online Union)