KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine proposes that Russia abandon drone and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure for at least 30 days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. “If Russia does not agree to such a step, it will be proof that it intends to continue doing only those things which destroy human lives and prolong …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Sunday it would welcome the extension beyond Sunday of a one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin even as the Kremlin said earlier there was no order for an extension. Both Russia and Ukraine accused each other of breaking the ceasefire. …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has not issued an order to extend the Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, TASS news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Sunday. The ceasefire expires at midnight (2100 GMT) on Sunday. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis held a private meeting at the Vatican on Sunday morning with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, the Vatican said in a statement. Vance, a Catholic who has clashed with the pontiff over the Trump administration’s immigration policies, met Francis at his Vatican residence to exchange Easter greetings, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday that Ukraine had broken the Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin more than a thousand times, inflicting damages to infrastructure and causing civilian deaths. The ministry said that Ukrainian forces had shot at Russian positions 444 times while it had counted more than 900 …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Several blasts ripped through Russian-controlled Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Sunday amid an Easter ceasefire declared by the Kremlin, Russian news agency reported. The TASS state news agency, citing local “operative services”, said at least three blasts were heard in the city, which has been under Russia’s control since 2014. The RIA …
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KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Ukrainians on Easter Sunday not to give up hope that peace will return to their country and to persevere to overcome the difficult path of war on which they have been travelling for 1,152 days. Wearing a grey traditional Ukrainian vyshyvanka embroidered shirt and standing in front of …
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(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service led by the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a faithful backer of the Russian leader and an advocate for the war in Ukraine. Hours after declaring a unilateral Easter ceasefire that Kyiv said was just words …
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(Reuters) -A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency reported on Sunday. “Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal,” the agency said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. It added that the spacecraft landed in …
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(Reuters) – Britain has urged Russia to commit to a full ceasefire in Ukraine, “not just a one-day pause”, its foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in the day declared a unilateral 30-hour Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, after Washington said it might abandon peace talks within days unless …
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