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Global News Podcast

Zelensky says Russian attacks ongoing despite Putin announcing 'Easter truce'

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine is prepared to join Russia in observing an Easter ceasefire, but insists that Moscow's forces are still attacking. Also: scientists say they've discovered 'new colour' no one has seen before.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.0

I'm Rachel Wright, and in the early hours of Sunday the 20th of April, these are our main stories.

0:11.2

President Zelensky has said Ukraine will echo Russia's actions after Vladimir Putin declared an Easter truce.

0:18.3

But the Ukrainian leader said Russian attacks were continuing and Moscow could not be trusted.

0:23.9

The Houthis in Yemen say U.S. airstrikes that killed at least 80 people on Friday

0:28.8

have also caused a serious oil spill. And a 14-year-old cricketer has become the youngest ever to play in the Indian Premier League.

0:39.7

Also in this podcast, secret messages written 3,000 years ago, revealed in the centre of Paris.

0:46.6

Everybody sees it every day. So everybody felt, okay, it's already steady. We don't have to do anything more.

0:53.9

But in fact, we had to.

0:59.4

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will abide by an Easter ceasefire, which has been announced by Vladimir Putin.

1:07.0

But he says Moscow's forces are still attacking in some areas.

1:11.4

The Russian leader said he'd ordered his troops in Ukraine to refrain from any offensive

1:15.9

operations until Monday, but that they would respond to what he called provocations.

1:21.6

The unexpected announcement came just days after the US President Donald Trump

1:25.8

threatened to walk away from talks about a peace deal

1:28.6

unless progress was made soon.

1:31.1

From Moscow, here's our Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg.

1:35.0

This is not the unconditional comprehensive ceasefire that the United States had originally been pushing for

1:40.7

and that Ukraine had agreed to.

1:43.4

Still, Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to hold

1:46.4

fire for a period of 30 hours. Speaking to Russia's chief of the general staff,

1:56.3

President Putin announced an Easter truce in Ukraine. He claimed to be guided by humanitarian considerations.

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