{"id":12196,"date":"2026-05-05T05:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/05\/russia-two-day-ceasefire-victory-day\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:45:19","slug":"russia-two-day-ceasefire-victory-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/05\/russia-two-day-ceasefire-victory-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Announces Two-Day Ceasefire for Victory Day Commemorations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense has announced a temporary ceasefire with Ukraine on May 8 and 9, corresponding to April 18 and 19 in the Persian calendar, in observance of Victory Day commemorating the end of World War II. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Monday, the ministry said the ceasefire is declared to honor the anniversary of the Soviet Union\u2019s victory in the \u201cGreat Patriotic War,\u201d the term used in Russia for World War II. Moscow added that its armed forces will take all necessary measures to ensure the security of events related to this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense also expressed hope that the Ukrainian side will reciprocate this gesture. The statement warned that if Ukraine attempts to disrupt Victory Day ceremonies, Russian forces will carry out retaliatory attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further noted that despite possessing the \u201cnecessary capabilities,\u201d Russia has previously refrained from attacking the center of Kyiv for humanitarian reasons. The war between Russia and Ukraine, which began in 2022, has seen short periods of ceasefire but the fighting continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia declares a two-day ceasefire on May 8-9 to mark Victory Day, urging Ukraine to follow suit amid ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}