Ukraine Russia Online: The ceasefire that Putin announced unilaterally came into force

A three -day ceasefire that was unilaterally declared by Putin. It entered into force at midnight of the Moscow time.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian President of Greeding said that Kiev continued to insist on its offer at least 30 days of weapon peace, but Moscow did not respond to this proposal.

At the end of April, Putin announced the ceasefire on the occasion of the celebration of the end of World War II. According to him, Russian troops from midnight 8 May until midnight May 11, at 72 hours, will stop all military actions. Ukraine has never disagreed with this ceasefire and refused it as a political theater, AFP recalled.

The Kremlin counts that the Russian forces will observe Putin’s order, but warned that if Ukraine will do any attack, they will respond « immediately ».

Greeding in a regular evening message reiterated that Ukraine’s proposal to stop the attacks and set at least 30-day weapon peace still pay. « We will not withdraw this proposal, so that diplomacy could get a chance, » he said.

At the same time, according to Reuters, he admitted Ukrainian drone attacks, which in recent days have targeted several times to Moscow. « It is absolutely fair that in the Russian sky, the sky of the aggressor, it is also not peace today, » said Zelenskyj, saying that Moscow responded to the offer of Kiev only with new strokes. « This clearly and apparently shows everyone who is the cause of this war, » he added.

Russia in honor of the 80th anniversary of the World War II will be held on 9 May on the Red Square in Moscow a military parade. (TASR)