Trump Says Russia and Ukraine Agreed to Three-Day Ceasefire Starting May 9

US President Donald Trump announced a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine set to begin Saturday, May 9 and run through Monday, May 11. The ceasefire coincides with Russia’s Victory Day celebrations, Trump said in a social media post on Friday. He stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have both agreed to the proposal.

The ceasefire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity along with a prison swap of 1,000 prisoners from each country, Trump wrote. ” There was no immediate comment from either Ukraine or Russia on the announced ceasefire.

Russia had separately announced a ceasefire for May 8 to 9 to coincide with commemorations of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. That pause includes a military parade in Moscow’s Red Square. Ukraine announced its own proposal for an open-ended ceasefire that started at midnight on Tuesday and urged Russia to reciprocate.

Ukraine’s top negotiator Rustem Umerov arrived in Miami on Thursday for a series of meetings with US representatives. US-brokered peace talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine have stalled in recent months. The talks are deadlocked over Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.

Moscow demands that Kyiv pull troops back from parts of the Donetsk region it has failed to capture. Ukraine says it will not cede land that it controls. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has lasted four years.

Moscow and Kyiv have both accused each other of violating ceasefires that each has separately declared.