President Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticised Russia for answering his offer of an Easter truce with airstrikes on Wednesday but he praised as "positive" fresh

US-mediated talks on ending Europe's worst conflict since World War II have shown little progress since February, when Washington shifted focus to its war with Iran. View on euronews

He said he hoped the pause represented “the beginning of the end of a very long, deadly, and hard fought War.” Zelensky and the Kremlin confirmed the truce as part of on-and-off U.S. efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict.