The ceasefire will last 30 hours between Saturday evening and the end of the day Sunday for the Easter holiday.

The temporary truce began at 6 p.m. local time Saturday and was to run through midnight on Monday, Russian President Vladimir ...

James Marson leads Ukraine coverage for The Wall Street Journal.

In January 2023, Putin had ordered his forces in Ukraine to observe a unilateral, 36-hour cease-fire for Orthodox Christmas. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had stopped short of stating ...

Easter is the main holiday for Orthodox Christians, although many in Ukraine now mark major holidays like Christmas in line with Western celebrations to distance themselves religious services from ...

The Russian president announced a temporary Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called ...

Ukraine has previously been skeptical about such temporary pauses in conflict, having rejected a temporary ceasefire to coincide with the Orthodox Christmas holiday in January 2023, believing that ...

Russia and Ukraine on Sunday accused each other of violating an Easter truce announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the ceasefire “another attempt by Putin to play with human lives.” ...