On this photograph taken from video distributed by Russian Protection Ministry Press Service on Friday, April 18, 2025, the Russian BM-21 “Grad” self-propelled 122 mm a number of rocket launcher fires in the direction of Ukrainian positions in Ukraine.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a short lived Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, the Kremlin stated Saturday.
In line with the Kremlin, the ceasefire will final from 6 p.m. Moscow time (1500 GMT) on Saturday to midnight (2100 GMT) following Easter Sunday.
“Guided by humanitarian concerns, immediately from 18:00 to 00:00 from Sunday to Monday, the Russian facet declares an Easter truce. I order that every one navy actions be stopped for this era,” Putin stated at a gathering with Chief of the Basic Employees Valery Gerasimov, the Kremlin’s Press Service quoted him as saying.
“We assume that the Ukrainian facet will comply with our instance. On the similar time, our troops have to be able to repel potential violations of the truce and provocations from the enemy, any of its aggressive actions,” Putin stated.
The announcement got here on the identical day as Russia’s Protection Ministry stated its forces pushed Ukrainian forces from one in all their final remaining footholds in Russia’s Kursk area. Russian forces took management of the village of Oleshnya, on the border with Ukraine, the ministry stated.
The Related Press was unable to instantly confirm the declare and there was no fast response from Ukrainian officers.
In line with Russian state information company TASS, Russia remains to be combating to push Ukrainian forces out of the village of Gornal, some 7 miles (11 kilometers) south of Oleshnya.
“The Russian navy has but to push the Ukrainian armed forces out of Gornal … with a view to fully liberate the Kursk area. Fierce combating is underway within the settlement,” the company reported, citing Russia safety businesses.
Russian and North Korean troopers have practically disadvantaged Kyiv of a key bargaining chip by retaking a lot of the area, the place Ukrainian troops staged a surprise incursion final 12 months.
In different developments, the Ukrainian air drive reported that Russia fired 87 exploding drones and decoys within the newest wave of assaults in a single day into Saturday. It stated 33 of them had been intercepted and one other 36 had been misplaced, doubtless having been electronically jammed.
Russian assaults broken farms within the Odesa area and sparked fires within the Sumy area in a single day, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service stated Saturday. Fires had been contained, and no casualties had been reported.
Russia’s Ministry of Protection, in the meantime, stated its air protection methods shot down two Ukrainian drones in a single day into Saturday.
