{"id":888921,"date":"2026-04-12T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/888921\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:31:15","slug":"ukraine-russia-blame-game-over-easter-ceasefire-violations-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/888921\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine-Russia blame game over Easter ceasefire violations \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/vladimir-putin-russia-easter-ceasefire-ukraine-war-oil-energy-defense-volodymyr-zelenskyy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declared a temporary 32-hour ceasefire<\/a> to mark Orthodox Easter, starting at 4 p.m. on Saturday and lasting through Sunday, following calls from Kyiv for a pause in the fighting over the holiday period.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine and Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/vladimir-putin-russia-easter-ceasefire-ukraine-war-oil-energy-defense-volodymyr-zelenskyy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exchanged 175 prisoners of war<\/a> as the ceasefire took effect Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2042891089493758321?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a> Saturday that Ukraine would \u201cadhere to the ceasefire\u201d but \u201crespond strictly in kind\u201d to any potential violations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there are no Russian strikes, there will be no response from us,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2043021873022173334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a>. But he added that \u201cevery Ukrainian unit retains the right to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia declared a temporary 32-hour ceasefire to mark Orthodox Easter, starting at 4 p.m. on Saturday and lasting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[473,2000,299,2597,54490,48,332,657,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":["post-888921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-defense","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-military","tag-multinational-defense-programs","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116391515767766718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}