Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a cease-fire in Ukraine on Jan. 6-7, the Kremlin mentioned Thursday.
The Kremlin famous that Moscow urges the Ukrainian facet to declare a cease-fire and permit individuals to attend companies on Orthodox Christmas Eve, in addition to on Christmas day.
The cease-fire announcement got here shortly after Putin spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who additionally spoke with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“Given the appeal of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, I instruct the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (Sergey Shoygu) to introduce a cease-fire regime along the entire line of contact between the parties in Ukraine from 12:00 (0900GMT) January 6, 2023 to 24:00 (2100GMT) January 7, 2023,” the assertion mentioned.
“Based on the fact that a large number of people professing Orthodoxy live in the combat areas, we call on the Ukrainian side to declare a cease-fire and give them the opportunity to attend services on Christmas Eve, as well as on the Day of the Nativity of Christ,” it added.
Earlier on Thursday, Kirill, chief of the Russian Orthodox Church, known as for a truce in Ukraine for the event of the Christmas Day, which is widely known by most Orthodox Christians on Jan. 7, this 12 months falling on Saturday.
