A full ceasefire in Ukraine is "unrealistic," Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya said during an April 17 briefing, challenging diplomatic efforts to halt the fighting. The statement came more than a month after Ukraine agreed to a full 30-day ceasefire proposal,

Russia is expected to announce whether it would resume full-scale attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure following a 30-day pause that Moscow insists ends imminently, days after President Donald Trump’s envoy claimed there would soon be a deal to end the war.

H e promised to end the war in Ukraine within a day. Now, insiders say, Donald Trump hopes to secure a ceasefire within his first 100 days—ie, by the end of this month. He has started to refer to the conflict as “Biden’s war”. But if it drags on, he worries it will increasingly become his.