Putin orders 30-hour Easter ceasefire after Trump said negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are ‘coming to a head’
The Kremlin said on Saturday that Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ceasefire on Easter in Ukraine, citing humanitarian reasons.
This announcement came on the same day when the Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces pushed the Ukrainian forces from one of the last remaining foothold in the Russian Kursk region, where the Ukrainian forces organized a sudden penetration last year.
According to The Kremlin, the ceasefire will continue from 6 pm Moscow time (1500 GMT) on Saturday to midnight (2100 GMT) after Easter.
“It is guided by humanitarian considerations, today from 18:00 to 00:00 from Sunday to Monday, on the Easter truce. I ask that all military measures be stopped for this period,” Putin said in a meeting with the Chief of General Staff Valerie Gerasimov, in a video clip shared by Karimin’s service.
Putin said: “We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow our example. At the same time, our forces must be ready to create possible violations of Indian and provocations from the enemy, that is, from its aggressive actions,” Putin said.
Putin’s announcement came after US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia “reach her head” and insisted that there is no from both sides “playing” in pushing him to end the grinding war for three years.
Trump spoke shortly after Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio that the United States may “may” move “from trying to secure the Russian-Ukraine peace agreement if there is no progress in the coming days, after months of efforts failed to end the fighting.
In January 2023, Putin ordered his forces in Ukraine to monitor one -side ceasefire for 36 hours for Christmas Orthodox. Ukrainian President Foludmir Zelinski stopped saying that his forces were rejecting Putin’s request, but he rejected the Russian move as playing for time to assemble the invasion forces and prepare additional attacks.
On Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said its forces took control of the village of Olisia, in the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine. The Associated Press was unable to immediately check the claim and there was no immediate response from Ukrainian officials.
According to the Russian government news agency, Russia is still fighting to remove the Ukrainian forces from the village of Gornal, about 7 miles (11 km) south of Oleshnya.
“The Russian army has not yet paid the Ukrainian armed forces from Journal … in order to completely liberate the Corsak region. The bad fighting is underway in the settlement,” the agency, citing Russian security agencies.
The Russian and North Korean soldiers of Kiev almost deprived Kiev of a major bargaining chip by restoring most of the region, as the Ukrainian forces organized a sudden penetration last year.
In other developments, the Ukrainian Air Force stated that Russia fired 87 drones and went out in the latest wave of attacks during the night until Saturday. 33 of them said they were intercepted and 36 others were lost, after they were jammed electronically.
The government emergency service in Ukraine said on Saturday that Russian attacks were damaged by farms in the Odessa region and caused fires in the Sumi region during the night. The fires were contained, and no victims were reported.
Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that its air defense systems had shot down two Ukrainian drones overnight until Saturday.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
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2025-04-19 14:57:00
