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A resident walks at the site of a Russian drone strike, in Dnipro, Ukraine, Thursday.Stringer\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking details of a short-term ceasefire Russia proposed to U.S. President Donald Trump, he said in a post on Telegram on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a May 9 ceasefire to coincide with Victory Day in Russia in a phone call with Trump the previous day, according to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have instructed our representatives to contact the United States president\u2019s team and clarify the details of the Russian proposal for a short-term ceasefire,\u201d Zelensky said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russian attacks overnight killed one person in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro and wounded dozens more in the southern port city of Odesa, as Ukraine continued to strike industrial facilities inside Russian territory for a second day in a row.<\/p>\n

A ship that created a brief diplomatic scuffle between Israel and Ukraine has departed Israel without unloading what Zelensky said were grains Russia stole from occupied areas of Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said.<\/p>\n

Potential short-term ceasefire<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s aide Yuri Ushakov said that the Russian president had discussed a ceasefire for the May 9 holiday, when Russia celebrates victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, during a phone call with Trump Wednesday.<\/p>\n

But Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that no definite decision had been made, and that it would be for Putin to decide on the specific terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor now, no concrete decision has been made,\u201d Peskov said.<\/p>\n

Zelensky said that Ukraine is proposing a longer-term ceasefire. \u201cWe will find out exactly what is being discussed, whether it\u2019s a few hours of security for a parade in Moscow or something more,\u201d he said in a post on Telegram.<\/p>\n

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A sapper demines an agricultural field in Balakliia, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Thursday.Andrii Marienko\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Controversial ship does not unload<\/p>\n

The ship that Ukrainian officials said was carrying stolen grain had anchored close to the Haifa port for several days, but departed from Israel on Thursday morning, according to MarineTraffic.com, which tracks ships.<\/p>\n

The Israel Grain Importers Association said that the country\u2019s largest grain import company rejected the shipment, due to the sensitive situation with Ukraine, Israeli media reported. \u201cThe Russian supplier of the wheat cargo will be forced to find another destination to unload the cargo,\u201d the association said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the development was welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis demonstrates that Ukraine\u2019s legal and diplomatic actions have been effective,\u201d he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had threatened sanctions against Israel on Tuesday if the vessel unloaded. Israel\u2019s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said earlier in the week that the country\u2019s tax authority had opened an investigation into the ship.<\/p>\n

Russian attacks continue in Ukraine<\/p>\n

In Dnipro, a drone attack killed one person and injured five, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said in a post on Telegram. He said a shop, a residential building and vehicles were damaged.<\/p>\n

In Odesa, region head Oleh Kiper said Russian forces launched waves of drone attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Odesa overnight, wounding 20 people.<\/p>\n

He added that Ukrainian air defences had downed many of the incoming targets but hits and falling debris damaged residential buildings, a hotel, a kindergarten and an administrative building. They also caused fires at several locations which were later extinguished.<\/p>\n

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A resident cleans her room in a dormitory hit by a Russian drone strike, in Odesa, Ukraine, Thursday.Nina Liashonok\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Ukraine strikes inside Russia<\/p>\n

Units of Ukraine\u2019s Security Service, or SBU, struck Russia\u2019s Perm region in the Ural Mountains for a second day in a row, according to a security official.<\/p>\n

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly, said the drone attack disrupted the Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez refinery, located over 1,500 kilometres from Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Gov. Dmitry Makhonin said an industrial facility was hit, and there were no casualties or any significant damage. He didn\u2019t provide any further details.<\/p>\n

Separately, Krasnodar regional governor Veniamin Kondtratyev said in an online statement that a fire caused by a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian oil refinery at the Black Sea port of Tuapse has been put out after raging for almost two days, with oil products spilling out on the streets of the city.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Navy said it struck two Russian vessels in the Kerch Strait using sea drones overnight into Thursday.<\/p>\n

It said as a result of the strike, a Russian patrol boat called \u201cSobol\u201d and another vessel named \u201cGrachonok\u201d were hit.<\/p>\n

The Kerch bridge which was completed in 2018 links mainland Russia to the Crimean Peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A resident walks at the site of a Russian drone strike, in Dnipro,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1620,1608,1621,847,1600,1622,1619,1599,1614,1615,1611,1601,1598,49,193,150,1613,1606,1633,1602,1603,477,1609,1610,1295,1623,1605,1628,1629,1631,1626,1630,1624,1627,1604,1297,1617,47,1616,1625,5,1607,290,1618,1612,257,173,1632],"class_list":{"0":"post-13408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-northwest-territories","38":"tag-nova-scotia","39":"tag-nunavut","40":"tag-ontario","41":"tag-pei","42":"tag-photos","43":"tag-political-news","44":"tag-political-opinion","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-politics-news","47":"tag-quebec","48":"tag-russia","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}