Putin declares ‘shock’ ceasefire in 'critical week' in Ukraine-Russia peace talks
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,160.
Today, as Vladimir Putin announces a sudden three-day ceasefire in May, we assess just how meaningful it really is, and ask: why now? Then we analyse another extraordinary weekend of diplomacy at Pope Francis’s funeral, before learning more about the history of the Donbas: a region where much of the war’s fiercest fighting has taken place.
Contributors:
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X
With thanks to Victoria Donovan (Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies at the University of St Andrews). @vsdonovan on X.
Content Referenced:
Victoria’s Book: ‘Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East’:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Spite-Everything-Tales-Ukrainian/dp/1917092148
Freefilmers - a collective of filmmakers and artists, originally from Mariupol:
https://help-freefilmers.network/
Behind the scenes at Trump’s most extraordinary meeting yet (The Telegraph):
The Russian Military Moves That Have Europe on Edge (Wall Street Journal):
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-military-nato-europe-finland-ff53b912
The ugly task of Putin-proofing your border (The Economist):
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/04/22/the-ugly-task-of-putin-proofing-your-border
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Francis Dernley, and this is Ukraine, the latest. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, as Putin announces a sudden three-day ceasefire in May, we assess just how meaningful it really is, and ask, why now? |
| 0:16.0 | Then we analyse another extraordinary weekend of diplomacy at Pope Francis's funeral |
| 0:22.1 | before learning more about the history of the Dombas, a region where so much of this war's |
| 0:28.5 | fiercest fighting has taken place. |
| 0:30.7 | bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory. |
| 0:40.5 | It's the worst carnage that this world has seen since World War II. |
| 0:45.4 | Absolutely fascinating. |
| 0:46.6 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 0:51.3 | We can't as European, let's gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
| 0:56.1 | Nobody's going to break us. |
| 0:58.0 | We're strong. |
| 0:59.3 | We're Ukraine is. |
| 1:02.1 | It's Monday, the 28th of April, |
| 1:05.1 | three years and 64 days since the full-scale invasion began. |
| 1:09.9 | And today, I'm joined by our associate editor of |
| 1:12.1 | Defence, Dominic Nichols, and Victoria Donovan, Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies |
| 1:17.6 | at the University of St Andrews. But first over to Dom for the breaking announcement. |
| 1:25.4 | Well, hi, Francis, how everybody? So, breaking news in the last half an hour, Putin has announced a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine covering, I think, May the 8th, 9th and 10th. |
| 1:36.7 | Kind of worded it is from midnight on such and such a date to midnight on another date, so it's a bit difficult to tell exactly which day it starts. |
| 1:42.7 | But I think it's all pegged around Victory Day, Russia's Victory Day on May the 9th, marking the end of the Second World |
| 1:47.9 | War. So it makes sense that it would be the 8th, 9th and 10th. That's what I think. That's what I have seen, |
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