Putin orders weekend truce in Ukraine; Kyiv won't take part

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered his armed forces to observe a unilateral 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Orthodox Christmas holiday, the first such sweeping truce move in the nearly 11-month-old war. Kyiv indicated it won't follow suit.

Putin did not appear to make his cease-fire order conditional on Ukraine's acceptance, and it wasn’t clear whether hostilities would actually halt on the 684-mile front line or elsewhere. Ukrainian officials have previously dismissed such Russian moves as playing for time to regroup their invasion forces and prepare additional attacks.

[gfhjhvjgfvkjvv]

Putin: Time out, time out … hey no fair …

[sswulffable]

War is War - it doesn't stop Killing when you need a bathroom break -

[heavyd]

Are there no Russian Generals who can take Putin out?

[TruckTaxiMoveIt]

All he's got to do is send his troops home for Christmas regardless of what day it is

[johnnyv.]

One right between his eyebrows will end this silly war!

[QuitYourCryin]

"No hit backs, time out"
This isn't the school yard Putin.

[mikeellis]

He would have a better chance of belief if he said the phone killed them.

[Superbamf]

But they sent a drone with happy New Years marked on the back wings. Lol

[defcon]

0:13 fave latterly says when can I go home

[Thinkyourself]

He doesn't look or feel like a man of his word to me. Tries to destroy the oversight, #👀

[FATHOLLYWOODB]

Ukraine should wait 24 hours and not shoot or fire anything, then launch an offensive and see how much they can regain in 12 hours! Ukraine shouldn't let this opportunity go to waste!

[poppystars]

Be nice if we stopped this war with a negotiation, since the area they are fighting over has been in a civil war for 8 years and dose t want to be apart of Ukraine anyway.

[nestrokingz]

Lol yall saying Putin needs a time out to stop Ukranian advance but have yall seen a map of around bahkmut? 🤣

[tylerschoen]

Russia just wants two days to move troops and ammo because they can not during battle. They want to reenforce Bakhmut but they literally are being ripped apart before they can get to their troops.

[marlowops]

Putin can't even beat Ukraine. What a joke.

[SilentWolfFarts]

And we learn from this and let it rip jk

[williamshaw]

Just shows how awful the far right Ukrainian government really is.

[ArcFlash]

Ukraine should seek peace at every opportunity.

[patriotsrock]

I can’t wait for all the obvious not Russia bot comments to attack my previous comment 🤣👍

[roginutah]

You'd think an offering of peace would be a 'go'. Should take it and see if they can extend it.