President Trump said leaders of Russia and Ukraine agreed to a U.S.-requested three-day ceasefire and a prisoner exchange, calling it a possible “beginning of the end” of the war. That pause was reportedly breached within 24 hours, with both Moscow and Kyiv accusing each other of strikes that caused casualties. Putin has offered a separate explanation for how the pause came about, and the competing accounts highlight the fragility of such brief truces and the need to monitor compliance and prisoner transfers.
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