On April 18, Trump and Rubio said the United States will walk away from peace negotiations unless there are definitive signs of progress soon.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged accusations on April 20 of breaking a one-day Easter cease-fire proposed by President Vladimir Putin, with each side accusing the other of implementing hundreds of attacks.
Putin, who triggered the war after sending thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, ordered his forces on April 19 to “stop all military activity” along the front line from 6 p.m. Moscow time until midnight on Sunday.
“Guided by humanitarian considerations, the Russian side is declaring an Easter truce,” Putin said during a meeting at the Kremlin with Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, according to a translated statement posted on the Kremlin’s official Telegram channel on April 19.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy immediately responded on Saturday, calling the announcement disingenuous, citing continued Russian attacks.
“At 17:15, Russian attack drones were detected in our skies,” he said in a post on social media, adding that Ukrainian forces remain active in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod…
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