According to the Kremlin, the ceased will final from 18:00 Moscow Time (1500 GMT) from Saturday to midnight (2100 GMT) after Easter Sunday.
“Guided by humanitarian issues, at the moment from 18:00 to 00:00 from Sunday to Monday, the Russian half declares an Easter truce. I order that every one army actions are stopped for this era,” mentioned Putin in a gathering with the pinnacle of the final employees Valery Gerasimov, the Cremlin printing service, advised us.
“We assume that the Ukrainian half will comply with our instance. At the identical time, our troops should be able to reject the doable violations of the truce and the provocations of the enemy, considered one of his aggressive actions,” mentioned Putin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy outlined the ceasefire “one other try to play with human life”. He wrote on X that “the alert notices are spreading in Ukraine” and “Shad drones in our skies reveal Putin’s true perspective in the direction of Easter and in the direction of human life”.
In the meantime, the 2 sides exchanged lots of of prisoners of battle on Saturday. The Russian Ministry of Defense declared that 246 members of the Russian service had been returned by the territory managed by Kiev and that “as a gesture of excellent will” 31 wounded of Ukrainian prisoners of battle had been transferred in change for 15 wounded Russian troopers who want pressing medical care.
Both sides thanked the United Arab Emirates for his or her mediation.
In an additional place, Zelenskyy welcomed War Exchange prisoner, saying that 277 Ukrainian troopers had returned.
In response to the announcement of ceased the hearth, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha mentioned that Kiev had “agreed unconditionally to the US proposal of a ceased interim hearth for 30 days”, which Russia has rejected.
The announcement of Cessate The Fire of Putin comes after the President of the United States Donald Trump on Friday mentioned that the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are “coming to the pinnacle” and insisted that neither half is “taking part in” in his push to place an finish to the three -year grind.
