Kyiv agrees to halt fire after Kremlin declares Easter truce
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Photo: Zelenskiy Official / Telegram)
Ukraine is ready to take mirror steps in response to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's declaration of an "Easter truce," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on the night of April 10.
"We proposed a ceasefire for the Easter holidays this year and will act accordingly. People need an Easter without threats and a real movement toward peace, and Russia has a chance not to return to strikes even after Easter," he wrote on Telegram.
Russian propaganda agencies TASS and RIA Novosti, citing the Kremlin, wrote that Putin had announced an "Easter truce" from 4 p.m. on April 11 until the end of the day on April 12.
The Kremlin cynically stated that they "expect the Ukrainian side to take an example" from the aggressor country.
Putin had not yet made "any decisions" about an Easter truce, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said only a day earlier.
He is ready for any format of a ceasefire, in particular for Easter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized in a comment to journalists on March 30.
Russia "did not see a clearly formulated initiative," Peskov stated on March 31 while commenting on the Ukrainian president's proposal for an Easter ceasefire.
Russia had been attacking Ukraine with hundreds of Shaheds and dozens of missiles since the night, thus responding to the ceasefire proposal — the intensity of strikes only increased, and the aggressor country moved to an Easter escalation, the Ukrainian president noted in a conversation with Pope Leo XIV on April 3.
Ukraine is ready to mirror a halt in strikes on Russia's energy sector if Russia stops its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, Zelenskyy stated on April 6.
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