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Russia connected Monday declared a unilateral ceasefire with Ukraine betwixt May 8-9, erstwhile Moscow marks its annual World War II Victory Day commemorations, and threatened a "massive rocket strike" connected Kyiv if Ukraine violated it.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced his ain ceasefire, saying successful a connection posted connected X that helium has not received an authoritative entreaty from Russia astir its truce.
"We judge that quality beingness is acold much invaluable than immoderate day "celebration". In this regard, we are announcing a ceasefire authorities starting astatine 00:00 connected the nighttime of May 5-6," Zelenskyy said. "In the clip near until that moment, it is realistic to guarantee that soundlessness takes effect. We volition enactment reciprocally starting from that moment."
Russian President Vladimir Putin archetypal projected the short-term truce past week, during a telephone telephone with President Trump.
"In accordance with a determination of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces, Vladimir Putin, a ceasefire has been declared from May 8-9, 2026 ... We anticipation that the Ukrainian broadside volition travel suit," the Russian defence ministry said successful a station connected state-backed messaging app MAX.
"If the Kyiv authorities attempts to instrumentality its transgression plans to disrupt the solemnisation of the 81st day of Victory successful the Great Patriotic War, the Russian Armed Forces volition motorboat a retaliatory, monolithic rocket onslaught connected the halfway of Kyiv," it added. "We pass the civilian colonisation of Kyiv and employees of overseas diplomatic missions of the request to permission the metropolis promptly."
May 9 is the time connected which Russia celebrates its triumph implicit the Nazis. Due to the clip quality betwixt Russia and the Western European nations wherever the German surrender was cemented, the U.S. and its European allies people the triumph successful Europe connected May 8 each twelvemonth — the time connected which Adolf Hitler's forces capitulated to the Allies successful 1945, ending World War II connected the continent.
Last year, Putin declared a akin ceasefire successful Ukraine to people Victory Day.
In effect to Russia's connection connected Monday, Zelenskyy said: "It is clip for Russian leaders to instrumentality existent steps to extremity their war, particularly since Russia's Defense Ministry believes it cannot clasp a parade successful Moscow without Ukraine's goodwill."
Elizabeth Palmer contributed to this report.
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