Putin announces the ceasefire on Easter, while Zelinski writes about the alert alerts “spread across Ukraine”

Quoting humanitarian reasons, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the temporary ceasefire on Easter in Ukraine starting on Saturday, when Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of soldiers their arrest in the largest exchange since Moscow’s invasion began widely more than three years ago.

According to The Kremlin, the ceasefire will start on Saturday at 6 pm Moscow time (11 am East time) and ends in the middle of the night after Easter.

“We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow our example. At the same time, our forces must be ready to repel the potential violations of Indian and provocations from the enemy, that is, from its aggressive actions,” Putin said in a meeting with the Chief of the General Staff Valerie Gerasimov, in a video clip that was shared by Karimin’s press service.

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski described the ceasefire “another attempt by Putin to play with human life.” It was written on X that “the alerts of the raid are spread throughout Ukraine” and “Shahid drones in our sky revealing the real position of Putin on Easter and towards human life.”

Russia had refused to completely stop the shooting

In response to the announcement of the ceasefire, Ukrainian Foreign Secretary Andrei Sibha said that Kiev “unlerated or conditioned on the American suggestion for the temporary shooting for 30 days,” which was rejected by Russia.

“Putin has now made statements about his alleged preparation for the ceasefire. Thirty hours instead of 30 days,” he followed, and wrote on X. “Unfortunately, we had a long history of his statements that did not match his actions.”

Meanwhile, the two sides exchanged hundreds of prisoners on Saturday. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that 246 members of the Russian service were returned from the lands controlled by Kiev, and that it was “as a gesture of goodwill” 31 of the Ukrainian street prisoners were transferred in exchange for 15 wounded Russian soldiers in need of urgent medical care.

Zelinski said that the Ukrainian “Warriors” returned to the homeland of Russian families.

Both sides thanked the United Arab Emirates for their mediation.

The announcement of the ceasefire of Putin came after US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia “coming to its head” and insisted that there is no “playing” in pushing him to end the criminal war for three years.

Trump spoke shortly after Foreign Minister Marco Rubio warned The United States may “move” from trying to secure the Russian-Ukraine peace agreement if there is no progress in the coming days, after months of efforts failed to fight the fight.

In January 2023, Putin ordered his forces in Ukraine to monitor one -side ceasefire for 36 hours on Christmas Orthodox. Zelenskyy refused to play for a time to prepare additional attacks.

Russia is fighting to restore every Kursk region

On Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said its forces that paid the Ukrainian forces from the village of Olisia, one of its last remaining foothold in the Russian Kursk region, where the Ukrainians organized a sudden penetration last year.

Girassimov said on Saturday in a report to Putin, reported by Russian government media, that Russia has recovered almost all lands from the Ukrainian forces.

“The main part of the region has now been liberated, where the invasion happened,” Girassimov said.

Zelenskyy wrote on X that the Ukrainian forces “continued their activity on the lands of the Kursk region and occupy their positions.”

The Associated Press was unable to immediately verify Russia. The Russian and North Korean soldiers of Kiev almost deprived Kiev of a major bargaining chip by restoring most of the region.

According to the Russian government news agency Tass, Russia is still fighting to remove the Ukrainian forces from the village of Gornal, about 11 km south of Oleshnya.

“The Russian army has not yet paid the Ukrainian armed forces from Journal … in order to completely liberate the Corsak region. The bad fighting is underway in the settlement,” the agency, citing Russian security agencies.

In other developments, the Ukrainian Air Force stated that Russia fired 87 drones and went out in the latest wave of attacks during the night until Saturday. 33 of them said they were intercepted and 36 others were lost, after they were jammed electronically.

The government emergency service in Ukraine said on Saturday that Russian attacks were damaged by farms in the Odessa region and caused fires in the Sumi region during the night. The fires were contained, and no victims were reported.

Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that its air defense systems had shot down two Ukrainian drones overnight until Saturday.