{"id":46621,"date":"2025-04-29T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=46621"},"modified":"2025-04-29T05:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:49:05","slug":"putin-announces-may-8-10-ceasefire-ukraine-wants-truce-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=46621","title":{"rendered":"Putin announces May 8-10 ceasefire, Ukraine wants truce now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MOSCOW, April 28 &#8211; Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in May in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/ukraine-russia-war\/\">war with Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies in World War Two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin&#8217;s move appeared aimed at signalling that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-expulsion-ukrainian-forces-kursk-removes-hurdle-peace-2025-04-28\/\">Russia is still interested in peace<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; something that Ukraine and its European allies dispute &#8211; as President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration in Washington grows impatient with stuttering efforts toward peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kremlin said the 72-hour ceasefire would run on May 8, May 9 &#8211; when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/topic\/person\/vladimir-putin\/\">Putin<\/a>&nbsp;will host international leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping for lavish celebrations to commemorate victory over Nazi Germany &#8211; and May 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv questioned why Putin would not agree to its call for an immediate ceasefire lasting at least 30 days to pave the way for diplomacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;For some reason, everyone is supposed to wait for May 8 and only then have a ceasefire to ensure calm for Putin during the parade,&#8221; President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. &#8220;We value people&#8217;s lives and not parades.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia has said it wants a full settlement, not a pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin&#8217;s announcement came after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke on Sunday. The White House said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/donald-trump\/\">Trump<\/a>&nbsp;wanted a permanent ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;While President Trump welcomes Vladimir Putin\u2019s willingness to pause the conflict, the president has been very clear he wants a permanent ceasefire and to bring this conflict to a peaceful resolution,\u201d said National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;All military actions are suspended for this period. Russia believes that the Ukrainian side should follow this example,&#8221; the Kremlin said in a statement on the May 8-10 ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In the event of violations by the Ukrainian side, Russia&#8217;s armed forces will give an adequate and effective response.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: MOSCOW, April 28 &#8211; Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in May in the\u00a0war with Ukraine\u00a0to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies in World War Two. Putin&#8217;s move appeared aimed at signalling that&nbsp;Russia is still interested in peace&nbsp;&#8211; something that Ukraine and its European allies dispute &#8211; as President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration in Washington grows impatient with stuttering efforts toward peace. The Kremlin said the 72-hour ceasefire would run on May 8, May 9 &#8211; when&nbsp;Putin&nbsp;will host international leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping for lavish celebrations&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46623,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46621\/revisions\/46623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}