Breaking: 'Truce' as Putin orders sudden ceasefire in Ukraine - but is it too good to be true?
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
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🗓️ 19 April 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,151.
Today, after the unexpected announcement by Vladimir Putin of a 30-hour truce for Easter we assess what it might mean for the war, how likely it is to hold and discuss what comes next. Having rejected Donald Trump’s proposal for an unconditional ceasefire 39 days ago, what does Putin hope to gain by this latest gamble? Francis Dearnley and Dom Nicholls offer their thoughts.
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Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Francis Dernley and this is a special edition of Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:07.0 | Broadcasting from London on this extraordinary Easter Saturday. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm joined by Dominic Nichols to discuss and assess the potentially very significant news that Vladimir Putin has announced a special, if very short, truth for Easter. Thank you very much for joining us. |
| 0:24.0 | So let's get straight into it. First, the facts. What do we know? What did Putin say, Dom? |
| 0:30.3 | Well, hi, Francis. So Putin has said that his military will cease, quote, all military operations, end quote, for 30 hours lasting from 6pm |
| 0:40.0 | Moscow time. That's about 4pm, or sorry, that is exactly 4pm, London time on Saturday to |
| 0:46.1 | midnight Moscow time, 10pm, London time, tomorrow, Sunday. So that should have started about |
| 0:53.8 | three and a half hours ago as we're recording. |
| 0:56.5 | Now, in a very heavily staged and filmed meeting, Putin ordered General Valeri Gerasimov, |
| 1:02.5 | that's Russia's chief of the general staff, the head of the armed forces, to cease all military |
| 1:06.8 | operations and said, we assume the Ukrainian side will follow our example. |
| 1:12.1 | Russia's MOD has confirmed all military actions have been ordered to stop, |
| 1:16.9 | adding that the decision was guided, in there words, guided by humanitarian considerations. |
| 1:22.7 | They say they expect Ukraine to do the same. |
| 1:25.4 | Putin has said that Russian troops will be ready to react if there |
| 1:28.7 | are provocations or violations of the truce, adding the effectiveness of the ceasefire will, quote, |
| 1:34.1 | test Ukraine's sincerity in pursuing peace talks. So that's the facts, as we have it from the Russian side, |
| 1:40.4 | Francis. Well, there's a lot we're going to need to pull apart from that in a moment, |
| 1:45.0 | but let's just look at what the Ukrainians are saying. So President Zelensky has just tweeted |
| 1:48.7 | as follows. The corresponding proposal for a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire has gone |
| 1:54.5 | unanswered by Russia for 39 days. The US made this proposal. Ukraine responded positively, |
| 2:00.4 | but Russia ignored it. If Russia is now |
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