The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, announced a ceasefire with Ukraine during Orthodox Easter this weekend, the Kremlin reported Thursday, after Kyiv He also proposed a pause in hostilities.
At the beginning of the week, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, stated that he had transmitted a truce proposal for these holidays through USA, whose government has led talks to end the four-year conflict.
He Kremlin said in a statement that, by decision of President Putin, a ceasefire is declared on the occasion of Orthodox Easter “from 4:00 p.m. (1:00 p.m. GMT) on April 11 until the end of the day on April 12, 2026.”
The General Staff “has been instructed to cease combat operations in all directions during this period,” he added, although he specified that the troops were prepared to “counter any possible provocation by the enemy.”
“We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow the example of the Russian Federation,” he noted.
Several rounds of US-led talks have failed to reach an agreement between the warring parties, and the dialogue has further stalled with the attention of Washington focused on the war in Iran.
The negotiations appeared to be at a standstill as Moscow demands territorial and political concessions from kyiv that Zelensky has ruled out as equivalent to capitulation.
The war in Ukraine, sparked by the Russian invasion of February 2022, has cost hundreds of miles of lives and displaced millions of people, becoming the deadliest conflict in Europe since the Second World War.
