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Even Putin is ridiculing them - Vladimir Putin announces Orthodox Easter ceasefire with Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/09/vladimir-putin-announces-orthodox-easter-ceasefire-with-ukraineVladimir Putin has declared a 32-hour ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter weekend, after an earlier call from Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a pause.
The president’s decree, released by the Kremlin on Thursday, orders Russian forces to observe a ceasefire starting on 4pm Saturday and lasting until the end of Sunday.
View from overhead of oil tanks, at least two of them burning and smoking, surrounded by pipelines and oil infrastructure
Ukraine war briefing: Kremlin threat to countries over Ukrainian drone transit
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Zelenskyy proposed earlier in the week that each side stop targeting the other’s energy infrastructure over the holiday, saying he made the offer through the US, which has been mediating talks between delegations from Moscow and Kyiv as Russia’s invasion stretches into a fifth year.