Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday that he will order the Russian forces to cease hostilities in Ukraine for “humanitarian considerations” during Easter holidays, which will run 30 hours between Saturday afternoon and the end of Sunday.
Putin said the Russian forces would start a high temporal fire at 6 in the afternoon, Moscow time, from Saturday until the end of Sunday.
The high Russian fire is a unilateral effort, since Putin said he assumes that “the Ukrainian part will follow our example,” adding that Russia would be prepared to respond to any provocation of the Ukrainian forces.
In Putin’s announcement, he said that the fulfillment of the Alto El Fuego by Ukraine would demonstrate if the country is serious about a peaceful solution to the war that began in 2022.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has not directly approached the fire, although he said in an x minutes after Putin’s announcement that Ukraine had detected Russian attack drones in his heavens, which according to Zelensky shows “Putin’s true attitude towards Easter and towards human life”.
Tangent
On Saturday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had taken control of the Oleshnya village, in the Russian region of Kursk, to the Ukrainian troops, where Ukraine launched a surprise offensive last year. In its Saturday publication in X, Zelenski addressed the conflict in the Kursk region, stating that the Ukrainian forces have “continued their activity in the territory of the Kursk region and maintain their positions.”
Has Trump reacted to the high Easter fire?
President Donald Trump has not yet responded to the announcement of Alto El Fuego de Pascua de Putin. Putin’s announcement occurs one day after Trump affirmed that conversations between Russia and Ukraine are “reaching a critical point”, since both he and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, indicated that the United States would stop trying to negotiate peace if an agreement is not reached soon. “Now, if for any reason one of the two parts makes it very difficult, we will simply say that they are fools. They are fools, horrible people. And we will simply ignore them. But hopefully, we will not have to do it,” Trump said. Rubio said that the United States intends to decide in a matter of days whether it is possible or not to ensure peace, and added: “It is not our war. We have other priorities to focus.”
Key history
In January 2023, Putin announced that Russia would observe a high 36 -hour fire for Orthodox Christmas, although Ukrainian officials criticized the order as “hypocrisy” and said that Russia only wanted a break to gather resources and ammunition.
This article was originally published by Forbes Us.
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