Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday declared a 32-hour ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter weekend, following an earlier call from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a pause in some of the hostilities to observe the holiday. Putin's decree, released by the Kremlin, orders Russian forces to observe a ceasefire starting on
The announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war, however fragile, has been a welcome reprieve for millions of people and many economies. But the incessant drama of this war has relegated far too many other issues to the back burner, from Venezuela to Gaza to climate change to the war in Ukraine. The Ukraine war there has been going on for
Kyiv on Wednesday called on the United States to pressure Russia into ending its invasion of Ukraine, saying Washington's ceasefire agreement with Iran showed the success of US "decisiveness." The war in the Middle East suspended US-led efforts to end the four-year Ukraine war. The Kremlin also said it now hoped a new round of talks with US and Ukrainian
