{"id":72322,"date":"2025-04-28T18:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=72322"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:39:22","slug":"putin-declares-unexpected-ukraine-ceasefire-from-may-8-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/putin-declares-unexpected-ukraine-ceasefire-from-may-8-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin declares unexpected Ukraine ceasefire from May 8-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/zardari-interacts-with-vladimir-putin-calls-for-strengthening-ties\/\">Vladimir Puti<\/a>n had ordered a three-day ceasefire from May 8 to 10, to coincide with World War II Victory Day celebrations in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow said it expected Kiev to issue a similar order, and that it was ready to respond to any potential violation of the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Putin gave a similar order to halt fighting over Easter &#8211; a ceasefire that both sides have accused each other of violating hundreds of times, but which has led to a temporary reduction in fighting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Russian side is declaring a ceasefire from the intervening night of May 7-8 to the intervening night of May 10-11, during the 80th anniversary of Victory Day. All combat operations will be suspended during this period,&#8221; the Kremlin said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia believes that the Ukrainian side should follow suit. In the event of a ceasefire violation by Ukraine, the Russian armed forces will respond appropriately and effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin last month rejected a US proposal for a 30-day complete and unconditional ceasefire, which Ukraine had accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Kiev and its European backers accused Putin of announcing the 30-hour Easter ceasefire as a PR exercise and said he did not want peace.<\/p>\n<p>Since launching operations against Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has seized and claimed large parts of four Ukrainian regions, in addition to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered a three-day ceasefire from May 8 to 10, to coincide with World War II Victory Day celebrations in Moscow. Moscow said it expected Kiev to issue a similar order, and that it was ready to respond to any potential violation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[532,2547,5744],"class_list":["post-72322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72323,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322\/revisions\/72323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}