I'm Francis Dernley and this is Ukraine, the latest.

Today, we ask how meaningful the weekend's so-called ceasefire really was. Look at the new American peace proposals put to Kiev and its allies, then reflect on the legacy of Pope Francis in relation to the war.

Later, we hear about a new book investigating Russian spies who spent decades undercover.

What do they teach us about modern FSB spycraft?

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It's Tuesday, the 22nd of April,

three years and 58 days since the full-scale invasion began.

And today, I'm joined by our Associate Editor of Defence, Dominic Nichols, our senior foreign

correspondent, Roland Oliphant, and the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for the Guardian,

Sean Walker.

But first, over to Dom, for the latest developments in the military realm.

Well, thanks, Francis. Hello, everyone. Hello, Sean. Let's go back a little bit over the weekend, because of course the big story was the so-called 30-hour truce called by Putin, which came into effect 6pm Moscow time on Saturday through to midnight Sunday Monday.

This truth that Czech foreign minister Yan Nipavsky said was Putin like declaring a hunger

strike between breakfast and lunch while secretly eating sweets.

Now, he says the ceasefire was more of a media stunt than a reality, and I do agree with

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