UPDATE 2-Trump announces three-day ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ​announced on social media that there ​would be a three-day ceasefire in ‌the war ​between Russia and Ukraine from May 9 until May 11 to mark the end of World War Two for the Russians.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ​announced on social media that there ​would be a three-day ceasefire in ‌the war ​between Russia and Ukraine from May 9 until May 11 to mark the end of World War Two for the Russians. Trump ‌had said after a phone call with Putin on April 29 that a temporary ceasefire was in the works. Putin announced a similar truce last year that lasted three days but was ‌not agreed with Kyiv.

Trump said in a Truth Social post that the pause will include ‌a suspension of all kinetic activity, and also a prison swap of 1,000 prisoners from each country. "Hopefully, it is the beginning of the end of a very long, deadly, and hard fought War," he said, adding ⁠that there ​was constant progress in ⁠talks to end the conflict.

Russia announced a ceasefire for May 8 to 9 to coincide with commemorations of ⁠the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two and a military parade in Moscow's ​Red Square. Ukraine announced its own proposal for an open-ended ceasefire that started at midnight on ⁠Tuesday (2100 GMT), urging Russia to reciprocate.

Officials said on Thursday that Ukraine's top negotiator, Rustem Umerov, had arrived in Miami for ⁠a ​series of meetings with U.S. representatives as peace talks on ending Russia's war in Ukraine have stalled in recent months. The U.S.-brokered talks are deadlocked over Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. ⁠Moscow demands Kyiv pull troops back from parts of the region it has failed to capture ⁠in its four-year full-scale ⁠invasion. Ukraine says it will not cede land that it controls.

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