MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. Russia did not discuss in advance with Ukraine or the United States the truce scheduled for April 11-12during Orthodox Easter, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.

"No," he replied when asked if the Easter truce was tied to renewed negotiations or discussed beforehand with the United States as a mediator in the settlement process or with Ukraine.

The Kremlin earlier announced President Vladimir Putin's order for the Easter truce from 4:00 p.m.Moscow time (1:00 p.m. GMT) on April 11 until the end of April 12. Russian troops received orders to halt combat operations along the entire front line while remaining prepared to repel any hostile acts or aggression.

This ceasefire will become the fourth truce since the beginning of the special military operation. The first truce was declared for Christmas 2023 from 12:00 Moscow time (9:00 a.m. GMT) on January 6 until 00:00 Moscow time (9:00 p.m. GMT) on January 8. The Kiev regime ignored that truce, which the Kremlin deemed "cynical and inexplicable."

The second truce, an Easter truce, was declared in 2025 from 18:00 Moscow time (3:00 p.m. GMT) on April 19 until 00:00 Moscow time on April 21.The Ukrainian troops also violated its terms. The third truce was a 72-hour ceasefire declared by Russia on May 8-11, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. Kiev publicly rejected that ceasefire.

Russia also proposed a two-to-three-day truce on specific front sectors in June 2025 to evacuate bodies of fallen soldiers; Kiev refused.