Putin announces Orthodox Easter ceasefire with Ukraine, Kremlin says
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“Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had previously signalled Kyiv's openness to a potential Easter truce.”
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— On 24 February 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting the current phase of the war, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. By Apri…
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— According to Ukrainian government officials and news sources, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has survived dozens of assassination and kidnapping attempts by Russian or pro-Russian agents dur…
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— Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who, since 2019, has served as the sixth president of Ukraine. He took office five years afte…
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“Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire with Ukraine for the duration of the Orthodox Easter holidays, the Kremlin said on Thursday night, after Kyiv also proposed a pause in hostilities.”
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— Conspiracy theories about body doubles used by Russian president Vladimir Putin are based on alleged instabilities in his appearance. Proponents believe that the "body doubles" have had surgery to res…
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— On 17 March 2023, following an investigation of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin, the president of Rus…
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— Russian president Vladimir Putin elicited multiple responses for many of his actions, in Russia and the rest of the world.
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“By the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief...V.V. Putin, in connection with the approaching Orthodox feast of Easter (the Resurrection of Christ), a ceasefire is declared from 16:00 (13:00 GMT) on 11 April until the end of the day on 12 April 2026”
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No Wikipedia entries or other evidence mention a ceasefire declared by Putin for 11-12 April 2026. The provided sources discuss unrelated historical events (1999 bombings, 2011 protests, Navalny's death).
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— In September 1999, a series of explosions hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk, killing more than 300, injuring more than 1,000, and spreading a wave of …
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— The 2011–2013 Russian protests, which some English language media referred to as the Snow Revolution (Russian: Снежная революция, romanised: Snezhnaya revolyutsiya), began in 2011 (as protests against…
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— On 16 February 2024, at 14:19 Moscow time (11:19 GMT), the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug announced that Russian opposition activist and political pr…
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“Easter falls on 12 April according to the Julian calendar followed by Orthodox churches in Ukraine and Russia.”
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“Putin unilaterally declared a 30-hour ceasefire last Easter, but each side accused the other of breaking it.”
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