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Trump announces three-day Ukraine-Russia cease-fire, prisoner swap

Nypost · · 156 words · By Steven Nelson
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“President Trump said Friday that Ukraine and Russia will embark on a three-day cease-fire”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that President Trump announced a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine for May 9th, 10th, and 11th.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2019 Trump–Ukraine political scandal arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. president Donald Trump's attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden and thus potent…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Trump–Ukraine_scandal
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Russia–United States Summit (also known as the Trump–Putin Summit in Alaska) was a summit meeting between United States president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. It was hel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Russia–United_States_summ…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On February 28, 2025, U.S. president Donald Trump and U.S. vice president JD Vance held a highly contentious bilateral meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside the Oval Office at th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump–Zelenskyy_Oval_Offi…
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“both nations pause to celebrate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II”
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Web search results confirm the ceasefire was announced during Victory Day celebrations, which mark the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in WWII.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germans_in_Russia,_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. More than 3.8 million Axis troo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. By September 1941, the German-occupied te…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_collaboration_with_N…
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“Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced plans for the cease-fire earlier this week”
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While some sources mention separate ceasefire plans by Putin and Zelensky, others describe them as 'dueling' or 'separate' rather than a joint announcement of plans for the specific three-day ceasefire mentioned by Trump. One source notes Zelensky announced his own ceasefire starting May 6, while others mention Russia's unilateral ceasefire.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On February 28, 2025, U.S. president Donald Trump and U.S. vice president JD Vance held a highly contentious bilateral meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside the Oval Office at th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump–Zelenskyy_Oval_Offi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The February 2025 Putin–Trump call was a formal telephone conversation between U.S. president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin that took place on February 12, 2025. The conversation i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2025_Putin–Trump_phon…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy
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“Trump wrote on Truth Social that the truce would last three days, including Saturday, Sunday and Monday”
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Web search results explicitly state that Trump announced the ceasefire on social media (Truth Social) for the dates of May 9, 10, and 11 (Saturday, Sunday, and Monday).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, then a former president of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, survived an assassination attempt wh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Don…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live (SNL) has parodied Donald Trump since 1988, covering his time as a real estate broker to his popular run as host of The Apprentice, and during a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Truth Social is an American alt-tech social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), an American company majority-owned by US president Donald Trump. It has been called a "Twitte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social
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“This Ceasefire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity”
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Three independent news sources (Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and Anadolu Ajansı) explicitly quote Trump stating the ceasefire includes a 'suspension of all kinetic activity'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The US president said the ceasefire would include a suspension of all “kinetic activity” and a prisoner swap of 1,000 prisoners from each country.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/08/trump-russia-u…
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web search NEUTRAL — The ceasefire, according to Trump, will include “a suspension of all kinetic activity” and a reciprocal exchange of 1,000 prisoners from each side.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/trump-announces-…
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web search NEUTRAL — This Ceasefire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity, and also a prison swap of 1,000 prisoners from each Country,” he added. Russia had previously announced a two-day unilateral ceasefire…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/8/trump-announces-thre…
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“also a prison swap of 1,000 prisoners from each Country”
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Multiple independent sources, including The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and CBS News, confirm the agreement includes a reciprocal prisoner swap of 1,000 prisoners from each country. President Zelenskyy also confirmed this via Telegram.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–pres…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war
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