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Putin announces three-day ceasefire in Ukraine, starting next Thursday
Alyona Zavadska, 16, (centre), cries over the coffin of her boyfriend Danylo Khudia, 17, killed in a Russian strike along with his parents, Viktoria and Oleh Khudia on April 24, during a farewell ceremony at the crematorium in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 28, 202
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RUSSIAN forces will observe a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire in Ukraine next week to mark Victory Day in World War II, President Vladimir Putin said today, as the US presses for a deal to end the three-year-old war.
The Kremlin said that the truce, ordered on “humanitarian grounds,” would run from the start of May 8 until the end of May 10.
Ukraine, which has previously agreed to US President Donald Trump's proposal of a full 30-day ceasefire, dismissed Mr Putin's announcement, with Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha saying: “If Russia truly wants peace, it must cease fire immediately.”
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