US President wants to reach ceasefire agreement in Ukraine before Easter

According to Sputnik, Bloomberg news agency quoted a well-informed source saying that the administration of US President Donald Trump is seeking to reach a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine before April 20.

Government sources told the news agency that the Trump administration wants to reach a ceasefire agreement with Russia before Catholic Easter, which falls on April 20 this year.

On the battlefield, Ukraine said on February 16 that it had retaken the village of Pishchane near the strategic city of Pokrovsk, which Russia has been trying to capture for months, after President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that his country's forces had made progress.

"Some counterattacks by Ukrainian forces have achieved some success. We can talk about the liberation of the village of Pishchane," regional forces spokesman Viktor Tregubov told Ukrainian television.

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that Russian forces stepped up combat operations in eastern Ukraine on February 16 and the main attacks were concentrated near the important logistics center of Pokrovsk.

Ukraine said Russian troops have been advancing toward Pokrovsk for weeks as part of their pacification campaign in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, seizing a series of villages./.

Source: https://baodaknong.vn/tong-thong-my-muon-dat-thoa-thuan-ngung-ban-o-ukraine-truoc-le-phuc-sinh-242992.html