{"id":4808,"date":"2026-05-09T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:45:00","slug":"russia-ukraine-truce-for-a-short-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4808","title":{"rendered":"Russia &#8211; Ukraine: Truce for a short time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ceasefire between <b>Russia <\/b>and <b>Ukraine<\/b> has been shattered once again with both sides accusing each other of violations. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Ukraine <\/b>and Russia today traded accusations of violations of a three-day ceasefire negotiated by <b>United States<\/b> and announced by the US president, <b>Donald Trump<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>Since the beginning of the day, the number of attacks carried out by the aggressor reached 5<\/b>1,&#8221; the <b>General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine<\/b> said. The Ukrainian Air Force cited 44 unmanned aerial vehicles launched by Russia since yesterday, Friday, at 18:00 (local time and Greek time). That is the lowest number in months.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Russia&#8217;s Defense Ministry said that &#8220;<b>despite the declaration of a ceasefire, Ukrainian armed groups launched attacks with the help of drones <\/b>and artillery against the positions of our troops,&#8221; without giving an exact number.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <b>casualty <\/b>reports were received from both sides. Drones fired from Russia killed two civilians and wounded three in the <b>Zaporizhia<\/b> and <b>Dnipropetrovsk<\/b> regions of <b>central Ukraine<\/b>, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, <b>three people were wounded in<\/b> <b>a Ukrainian drone attack<\/b>, according to regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.<\/p>\n<p>After two attempts at a ceasefire, Ukrainian and then Russian, that were not respected this week, the US president announced last Friday night a <b>three-day ceasefire<\/b> between <b>Ukraine<\/b> and <b>Russia<\/b> that began today.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s message was made public, Kiev and Moscow confirmed they had accepted the ceasefire and the prisoner swap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of a very long war,&#8221; US President <b>Donald Trump<\/b> wrote yesterday on his platform, Truth Social, specifying that the ceasefire would be accompanied by a &#8220;<b>prisoner exchange, 1.000 prisoners from each country<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov, quoted by Russian news agencies, said today, however, that there is no agreement to extend this ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was once again violated, with both sides accusing each other of violations.<br \/>\n Ukraine&nbsp;and Russia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4808","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\/4808","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=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}