Moscow, April 19 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared an Easter truce in Ukraine, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday.
The break in fighting is scheduled to last from Saturday evening until Monday morning local time.
"During a meeting in the Kremlin, the commander-in-chief heard a report by Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, on the situation on the line of contact and said that the Russian side stops all hostilities from 1800 [1500 GMT] on April 19 to 0000 on April 21," the Kremlin's official Telegram channel said.
Putin was quoted as saying that while Russia "assumed" that Ukraine would follow suit, he warned that Russian troops should be ready to repel possible "provocations by ...