Putin orders surprise 3-day Ukraine war ceasefire in May
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a surprise unilateral ceasefire in the Ukraine war scheduled for May.
The Kremlin said on Monday that Putin ordered the three-day ceasefire for “humanitarian reasons.”
It said Russian forces will stop fighting on May 8 for 72 hours to mark the annual celebration of the Soviet victory in World War II, a major holiday in the country.
This is the second time in a fortnight that Putin announces a unilateral pause to the fighting.
Earlier this month, Putin had announced a similar one-day ceasefire to mark the Easter, which was violated a multitude of times by the Kiev forces.
Ukraine did not respond to the Kremlin's latest announcement for ceasefire.
The Kremlin's announcement came just days after US President Donald Trump urged his Russian counterpart in a message on social media to stop the war.
On April 24, Trump directly asked Putin to allow the peace process to go through and get done.
"Let’s get the Peace Deal DONE!” Trump wrote in the message on social media addressing the Russian leader.
Earlier, Trump had warned that he might pull the United States out of the ceasefire talks.
“Now if for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say: ‘You’re foolish. You’re fools. You’re horrible people’ – and we’re going to just take a pass,” Trump told reporters in Washington.
“But hopefully we won’t have to do that ... but quickly. We want to get it done.”
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump promised his supporters that he would rapidly end what he described as the “ridiculous” war in Ukraine. And, since taking office on January 20, he has been making pretentious efforts to end it.
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