Trump broadcasts 3-day Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, prisoner swap forward of Victory Day Parade | DW News
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day ceasefire from Saturday until Monday. Announced by US President Donald Trump it will also involve a major prisoner swap. Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelenksyy said his country would not target Russia’s May 9 WWII Victory Day celebrations, which Moscow had slimmed down due to security concerns. DW speaks to Leon Aron, analyst on Russian domestic and foreign politics, author of "Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War."
Chapter Breakdown
0:00 3-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine
0:31 Putin scales back this year’s WWII Victory Day Parade in Moscow
3:39 Leon Aron, Russian politics analyst, on why the annual parade is being scaled down, but the prisoner exchange is going ahead
6:54 European intel reports that Putin is scared of being attacked by his inner circle
9:06 Former Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Kasyanov, argues there is a change in Russian society: "society is fed up with the war"
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