{"id":391007,"date":"2026-04-10T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391007\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:55:09","slug":"russias-president-announces-orthodox-easter-ceasefire-with-ukraine-kremlin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391007\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s president announces Orthodox Easter ceasefire with Ukraine, Kremlin says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            09\/04\/2026 &#8211; 21:29 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire with Ukraine for the duration of the Orthodox Easter holidays, the Kremlin said on Thursday night, after Kyiv also proposed a pause in hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief&#8230;V.V. Putin, in connection with the approaching Orthodox feast of Easter (the Resurrection of Christ), a ceasefire is declared from 16:00 (13:00 GMT) on 11 April until the end of the day on 12 April 2026,&#8221; the Kremlin&#8217;s statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had previously signalled Kyiv&#8217;s openness to a potential Easter truce.<\/p>\n<p>Easter falls on 12 April according to the Julian calendar followed by Orthodox churches in Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Putin unilaterally declared a 30-hour ceasefire last Easter, but each side accused the other of breaking it.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and our journalists are working on further updates.<\/p>\n<p>Additional sources \u2022 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 09\/04\/2026 &#8211; 21:29 GMT+2 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire with Ukraine for the duration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,173361,3589,89321,40,38,41,39,2040,5936,16411],"class_list":{"0":"post-391007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-orthodox-church","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-russias-invasion-of-ukraine","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-vladimir-putin","19":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}