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Trump announces three-day Ukraine-Russia ceasefire

By AFP 8 May 2026, 9:20 pm
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US President Donald Trump announces Friday that Ukraine and Russia have agreed to observe a three-day truce starting Saturday and a mutual swap of 1,000 prisoners each.

Trump posts on social media that the truce on Saturday, Sunday and Monday would hopefully be “the beginning of the end of a very long, deadly and hard-fought War.”

Russia had previously announced a two-day unilateral ceasefire to mark its May 9 World War II Victory Day on Saturday. Ukraine previously stated that it too had offered a truce, but that this had been ignored by Moscow.

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