Putin announces Easter armchair in the Ukraine War, Selenskij skeptic-Diepresse.com
The fire break applies from Saturday 5 p.m. to Sunday 11 p.m. Selenskij reports on Russian drones five minutes before the start of the announced ceasefire.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has announced a ceasefire for the Russian troops in the Russian attack war on Ukraine on the occasion of Easter. The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskij reacted skeptically for the time being.
The ceasefire applies from today, Saturday 5:00 p.m. CEST and should last until tomorrow, Sunday 11:00 p.m. CEST, he said at a meeting with the Russian chief of staff at a meeting with the Russian television Waleri Gerassimow. Putin founded the step with « humanitarian reasons » and called Ukraine to also put down the weapons during this period.
Ukraine: Five minutes before ceasefire sighted Russian drones
« As for Putin’s new attempt to play with human life, the air alarm is heard in many parts of Ukraine, » Selenskij wrote on the platform X. 45 minutes before the fire break came into force, Russian fight drones were spotted in the sky above Ukraine. Ukraine’s air defense has already opened the fire.
« Shahed drones in our sky expose Putin’s true attitude towards Easter and human lives, » criticized Selenskij. The president initially did not provide any information as to whether Ukraine would also stop fire over Easter. At the moment of the announcement of the one -sided Easter fire break by the Kremlin, rocket alarm had also been triggered in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Open whether Ukraine was informed
Russia’s president said he assumed that Ukraine would follow the Russian example. However, he instructed Gerassimow to provide troops in order to ward off any violations of the ceasefire from Kiev. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the command for the fire break was issued to all commanders in the combat areas. It was arranged for humanitarian reasons and is followed on the condition that Ukraine also sticks to it. It was initially open whether the government in Kyiv was informed about the planned fire break.
The negotiations on the end of the fights initiated by the United States had recently hardly progressed. US President Donald Trump had therefore threatened the end of peace between Russia and Ukraine, if there was no quick progress. « We want to do it quickly, » said Trump in Washington on Friday.
Russia: 99 percent back from Kursk
Gerassimow commented on the situation in the Russian border region of Kursk, in which Ukraine had started an offensive last August. In the meantime, more than 99 percent of the territory have been recaptured, said the Russian chief of staff. Previously, the Russian Ministry of Defense had declared that the penultimate village in the region, which was still under Ukrainian control.
Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 246 prisoners of war, the Ministry of Defense also announced in Moscow. The exchanges were conveyed by the United Arab Emirates, reports the Russian news agency TASS. (APA/AFP/Reuters)
