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Zelensky says Putin’s Easter truce proposal is bid to ‘play with human lives’
People take shelter in an underpass in Kyiv on April 21, 2025, during an alert warning of a drone attack that started shorty after an announcement of an Easter truce by Russian President Vladimir Putin,amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Ania TSOUKANOVA / AFP)
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a social media post responds sceptically to an Easter truce proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of trying to “play with human lives.”
“As for yet another attempt by Putin to play with human lives — at this moment, air raid alerts are spreading across Ukraine,” Zelensky writes on X. “Shahed (attack) drones in our skies reveal Putin’s true attitude toward Easter and toward human life,” the president adds, without saying whether Ukraine would observe the proposed truce.
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