{"id":425793,"date":"2026-05-05T02:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/425793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:44:12","slug":"russia-declares-victory-day-truce-signals-pause-in-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/425793\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Declares Victory Day Truce, Signals Pause in Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia\u2019s<\/a> Defense Ministry announced a unilateral truce for Victory Day, declaring a pause in fighting from May\u202f8 to May\u202f9, while warning it would carry out a \u201cmassive missile strike\u201d on Kyiv if Ukraine<\/a> attempts to disrupt celebrations in Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the BBC\u2019s Russian service<\/a>, the truce was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> to coincide with the anniversary of the Soviet Union\u2019s<\/a> victory over Nazi Germany in World War\u202fII, marked annually on May\u202f9, Ukrinform<\/a> reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

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The ministry said Russia expects Ukraine to \u201cfollow this example,\u201d despite the announcement being made without consultations with Kyiv.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Russian officials warned of retaliation if Moscow\u2019s military parade is threatened.<\/p>\n

The Defense Ministry said that if Ukraine tries to \u201cimplement its criminal plans to disrupt the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War,\u201d Russian forces would respond with a missile strike on central Kyiv.<\/p>\n

The ministry also cited comments made by President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> on Monday at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan<\/a>, which the Kremlin<\/a> interpreted as a threat of a strike on Moscow during Victory Day events.<\/p>\n

Zelensky later said there had been no dialogue with Ukrainian authorities regarding the truce and described the proposal of a one\u2011day ceasefire as frivolous.<\/p>\n

According to Ukrinform, discussions about the truce took place between American<\/a> and Russian officials, but Kyiv was not involved.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLife over parades,\u201d Kyiv said, urging Moscow to show whether it wants peace or military spectacle.<\/p>\n

Last year, Russia announced a similar unilateral ceasefire<\/a> for Victory Day, which Ukraine said was repeatedly violated. At the time, Ukrainian officials<\/a> reported hundreds of shellings and drone strikes during the declared pause.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin is proceeding with Victory Day celebrations on May\u202f9, and warned that all necessary measures are being taken to ensure security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry announced a unilateral truce for Victory Day, declaring a pause in fighting from May\u202f8 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-425793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}