00:00Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a truce for Orthodox Easter, with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying he has ordered
00:07troops to ceasefire, quote, in all directions this weekend.
00:12A ceasefire is declared from 4 p.m. local time on Saturday, 11 April, until the end of the day
00:18on 12 April, Orthodox Easter Sunday, the Kremlin's statement said.
00:23The announcement from Moscow came after Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky issued repeated calls for a ceasefire.
00:30Zelensky, in response, said in a post on X that Kiev was ready for symmetrical steps and would act accordingly.
00:37Easter falls on 12 April, according to the Julian calendar, followed by Orthodox churches in Ukraine and Russia.
00:45Last year, Putin unilaterally declared a 30-hour ceasefire, but each side accused the other of breaking it.
00:52With Washington's attention switching to the Middle East conflict, Russian and Ukrainian armies remain locked in battle on the roughly
01:001,250-kilometer front line.
01:04The Middle East conflict, Russian and Ukrainian armies remain locked in battle with Christianity.
01:04The Middle East conflict, Russian and Ukrainian armies remain locked in battle with Crime and Lage Shanahan, Romaniansretieri, which is
01:06the immediate battle of the Holocaust's long-term силь
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