36-hour truce

Zelenskyy calls Putin’s 36-hour truce a ‘tactical ploy’

The 36-hour truce call by Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Orthodox Christmas period on the request from Russia’s spiritual leader Patriarch Kirill was rejected by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The call for ceasefire is seen as a trick to halt the Ukraine army’s progress in Eastern Donbas region and...