An uneasy calm in Kyiv has been broken by air-raid sirens that also blared across the rest of Ukraine. That’s despite a Russian cease-fire declaration for the Orthodox Christmas. No explosion…
KYIV, Ukraine — An uneasy calm in Kyiv on Friday was broken by air-raid sirens that also blared across the rest of Ukraine as a Russian cease-fire declaration for the Orthodox Christmas took effect. Ukrainian and Western officials have scorned the truce as a ploy.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered his forces in Ukraine to observe a unilateral, 36-hour cease-fire. Kyiv officials dismissed the move but didn’t clarify whether Ukrainian troops would follow suit. Air-raid sirens sounded in Kyiv about 40 minutes after the Russian cease-fire was to come into effect. The widely used “Alerts in Ukraine” app, which includes information from emergency services, showed sirens blaring across the country.
Putin’s announcement Thursday that the Kremlin’s troops would stop fighting along the more than 1,000-kilometer front line and elsewhere was unexpected. It came after the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, proposed a cease-fire for the Christmas holiday. The Orthodox Church, which uses the Julian calendar, celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7.
“No matter where we are now — at home, at work, in a trench, on the road, in Ukraine or abroad — our family is united as never before. … United in its belief in a single victory.” “When Russia announces cease-fires, in the way Russia conducts war, there are usually ulterior motives,” she said. “Historically, what the Russian government and Russian military usually do when they announce a cease-fire is to use it as a tactical opportunity, to just take a breather or gain a little bit of space.”
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