Russia’s Putin declares unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine conflict

Russia’s Putin declares unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine conflict

Sunday, Apr 20, 2025  
President Vladimir Putin has announced a unilateral Easter truce in Russia’s war on Ukraine, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said shortly after that Ukrainian air defence units were fighting off an attack by Russian drones, adding that it was “another attempt by Putin to play with human lives”. Zelenskyy said on X that, “air raid alerts are spreading across Ukraine” and “Shahed drones in our skies reveal Putin’s true attitude toward Easter and toward human life”.

Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi reports from Kyiv, while Yulia Shapovalova joins live from Moscow. Meanwhile, Hanna Shelest, Director of the Security Studies Program at Ukrainian Prism—a foreign policy and security think tank—joins Al Jazeera’s live from Odesa, Ukraine.