{"id":4049,"date":"2026-05-05T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:07:00","slug":"volodymyr-zelensky-absolute-cynicism-of-russian-ceasefire-with-attacks-five-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4049","title":{"rendered":"Volodymyr Zelensky: &#8220;Absolute cynicism&#8221; of Russian ceasefire with attacks &#8211; Five dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has been accused of &#8220;absolute cynicism&#8221; by Ukrainian President <b>Volodymyr Zelensky<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Zelensky said today that <b>Russia<\/b> had shown &#8220;absolute cynicism&#8221; by calling for ceasefire to mark the May 9 commemoration of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, and then <b>launching missile and drone attacks against his country.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Zelensky said <b>five people were killed and dozens more wounded<\/b> during overnight Russian attacks that mostly targeted energy infrastructure in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>It is absolute cynicism to call for a ceasefire to hold propaganda celebrations by launching such missile and drone strikes every day<\/b>,&#8221; he said via a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia could cease fire at any time and that would stop the war and our response. Peace is necessary and real steps are needed to achieve it.<b>Ukraine will act in the same way<\/b>,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Russia made it known yesterday Monday that<b>it would unilaterally implement a ceasefire in Ukraine on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 May<\/b> as part of commemorations of victory in World War II, threatening that if violated by Ukrainian armed forces, it would launch a <b>&#8220;massive missile attack&#8221;<\/b>against Kiev.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian side responded by declaring its own unilateral ceasefire from midnight today, Tuesday 5 May, to midnight on Wednesday 6 May, with President Volodymyr Zelensky commenting that <b>&#8220;it is not serious&#8221; to expect a ceasefire to be observed to celebrate the Russian military.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Ukrainian President accused Russia of &#8220;absolute cynicism&#8221;<br \/>\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky.Specifically, Zelensky said today that Russia had shown &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}