Putin declares 30-hour Easter ceasefire in Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his army to postpone the war on Ukraine on Easter vacation this weekend.

According to the Kremlin’s footage, Putin announced “one -sided 30 -hour” Easter ceasefire for humanitarian reasons “at a meeting with his top military officer Valery Gersimov on Saturday. The war will be effective at 6pm. Saturday will end during Moscow and Sunday at midnight.

The Holt, which comes a day after the US President Donald Trump threatened If the Ukraine efforts were not made quickly to finish the efforts of peace, Putin announced a complete suspension of hostility since the order of invasion of Ukraine three years ago.

Putin announced a similar war on the occasion of the Orthodox Christmas in January 2021, which Ukraine claimed that there was a movement to stop its progress against Russian forces.

Minor minutes after Putin’s announcement, airstrikes were announced in several regions across Ukraine, where President Vloadimir Jelnsky and The Ukrainian Air Force fired air defenses on missiles and drones.

“Another attempt to play with Putin’s human life-airline alerts are spreading across Ukraine. 17: 15, in our sky, Russian attack drones were detected,” Jelnsky said, after a report by the commander-in-chief of the Ukraine forces, the commander-in-chief of the Ukraine.

He added: “Shaheed drone in the sky expresses the true attitude towards Easter and human life.”

Although Kiev agrees with Trump’s proposal for 30 days of ceasefire, Putin has hit a harsh line and refuses to move away from his maximum claim to end the war.

Both sides have accused each other of violating a suspension in the United States by brokers in the United States in March. Russia also says that if several Western sanctions are not rejected, they will not sign up on a similar agreement regarding marine protection in the Black Sea.

Putin said that Russia hoped to “follow us” to Ukraine, but he told Garasimov that his forces could “be prepared to cancel any ceasefire, provocative and offensive steps by enemies”.

He thanked Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and BRICS Nations for his attempt to find a settlement in the Ukraine and said that the cease would show that Kiev was serious about the peace talks to resolve the “initial causes of the Ukrainian crisis”.

Putin’s conditions for ending the war include Ukraine in Russia to occupy four partially in the southeast and in reality, to stop existence as an independent state.

Russia has also claimed that NATO has returned almost all its deployment before the Berlin wall as part of an agreement, which will rewrite the security order after the cool war.

Meanwhile, Zelnsky said that the Ukrainian forces continued to fight to retain shrinking land within the Russian Kursk region. According to a report by Sersky, the President said that Kiev’s troops “improved and expanded our control territory in the Russian region in Belgorod.”

Shortly before Putin’s ceasefire announcement, Russia and Ukraine have performed one of the largest exchanges of war prisoners since the commencement of Moscow’s total attack in February 2022. Gelnsky said that 2 277 Ukrainian troops returned after an agreement in the UAE broker.

He also added that since the launch of the attack, 1,212 Ukrainian soldiers were released from Russian captivity.