President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia will cease “all military operations” as part of an “Easter truce” in Ukraine. Putin said he assumes Ukraine will follow Russia’s example.

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President Vladimir Putin has announced an unexpected and brief unilateral Easter truce in Russia’s war ... for Easter in April 2022 and Orthodox Christmas in January 2023 were not implemented ...

Russia also proposed a truce around Christmas in 2023, which Ukraine rejected. Russia agreed to a limited cessation of strikes targeting energy infrastructure in March, while blocking a U.S ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday declared a unilateral Easter truce for the ongoing conflict with Ukraine. The truce will start from 6:00 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) on Saturday and ...

Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Vladimir Putin of breaking an “Easter truce” declared by the Russian president just hours ago. The Ukrainian president said, according to his top commander ...

This ceasefire, which the guerrillas have decreed for the Christmas period during other peace processes, will be in effect from 6:00 am on December 24, 2022, until 6:00 am on January 2, 2023 ...

The truce will start at 0000 on May 8 (2100 GMT May 7) and last through May 10. The Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the full cessation of hostilities on ...

This feels like a diplomatic dance, rather than a military, or moral, manoeuvre. An Easter truce - announced by Vladimir Putin on Saturday - is significant in the sense that, if it holds ...

Ukrainian Navy officers and business owners in the port city pondered what Kyiv could gain from a truce after it pushed back Russian vessels and resumed commercial shipping. By Constant Méheut ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared an "Easter truce" in the war in Ukraine on Saturday, saying that the Russian side will cease military action from 6 p.m. local Saturday night until ...