{"id":944419,"date":"2026-05-07T19:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944419\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:16:29","slug":"russia-declares-three-day-truce-with-ukraine-for-victory-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944419\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia declares three-day truce with Ukraine for Victory Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-07T18:45:20+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Moscow<\/p>\n<p>Russia announced on Thursday that its forces will pause the \u201cspecial<br \/>\nmilitary operation\u201d in Ukraine from May 8 to May 10, linking the move to the<br \/>\nupcoming Victory Day* commemorations in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the country\u2019s Defense Ministry noted that any violations<br \/>\nof the ceasefire by Ukrainian forces, or attempts to target Russian settlements<br \/>\nor infrastructure, would trigger a \u201cmassive missile strike in central Kyiv.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Describing the pause in fighting as a potential opening for<br \/>\nde-escalation, Moscow urged Kyiv to comply with the ceasefire and demonstrate<br \/>\nreadiness to move toward ending the war.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/World\/Russia-sets-May-8-9-ceasefire-marking-Victory-Day-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> that Ukraine<br \/>\nhad not received any official request from Russia regarding the ceasefire,<br \/>\ncautioning that drone strikes could target Moscow during the commemoration<br \/>\nevent.<\/p>\n<p>*Victory Day is a Russian national holiday marking the Soviet victory<br \/>\nover Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-07T18:45:20+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Moscow Russia announced on Thursday that its forces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[3674,9739,2000,299,332,263735,657,37922],"class_list":["post-944419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-breaking","tag-ceasefire","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-russia","tag-russia-declares-three-day-truce-with-ukraine-for-victory-day","tag-ukraine","tag-victory-day"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116534901921074066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944419","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=944419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}