You missed the most recent occasions on the war in Ukraine ? 20 Minutes takes inventory for you each night. Right here is the gist of this Saturday, April 11, 2026, on the 1,508th day of the battle.
Truth of the day
And ceasefire between Moscow and kyiv formally got here into pressure this Saturday on the entrance in Ukraine, on the event of Orthodox Easter. The Kremlin introduced Thursday that this truce would start at 4 p.m. native time (3 p.m. in France) and would final till the tip of Sunday, a interval of thirty-two hours. Volodymyr Zelensky then introduced that Ukraine accepted this ceasefire proposed by its counterpart Vladimir Poutine.
Russian Protection Minister Andrei Belousov and Military Chief of Employees Valery Gerasimov have been ordered to “stop fight operations in all instructions for this era.” Ukrainians and Russians had accused one another of getting violated the earlier truces thus decreed.
Within the hours earlier than the ceasefire formally got here into pressure, lethal strikes between the 2 camps continued. In Ukraine, 4 individuals died in strikes within the east and south, in response to kyiv. On the opposite facet of the entrance, two individuals have been killed in a Ukrainian drone assault on territories within the Donetsk area beneath Russian management, authorities put in by Moscow stated.
In the present day’s assertion
« Ukraine will respect the ceasefire and reply strictly blow for blow. The absence of Russian strikes within the air, on land and at sea will imply that there shall be no response from us. »
That is the warning that Volodymyr Zelensky posted this Saturday in a message on X, a couple of hours earlier than the official begin of the ceasefire. An identical truce was introduced final yr for Orthodox Easter, however each camps stated it was violated on quite a few events.
Vladimir Putin additionally unilaterally decreed a brief ceasefire in Might 2025 throughout the celebrations of the victory towards Nazi Germany. There too, the belligerents accused one another of getting continued the clashes.
The quantity
350. That is the variety of prisoners of struggle exchanged this Saturday between Russia and Ukraine, introduced the Russian Ministry of Protection, a couple of hours earlier than the entry into pressure of the Easter truce. “On April 11, 175 Russian troopers have been repatriated from territory managed by kyiv. In alternate, 175 prisoners of struggle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been handed over,” the ministry stated in a press release revealed on the Max software.
The development
The final director of a French firm specializing within the manufacture of machine instruments was indicted for the export of these goods in the direction of Russia, in violation of embargoes established by the European Union, a judicial supply indicated this Saturday, confirming data from France Information. The director of the Huron-Graffenstaden SAS firm was indicted specifically for smuggling items for twin civil and navy use, and was positioned beneath judicial supervision, added this supply.
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The Nationwide Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Workplace (Pnat) opened a preliminary investigation on October 9, 2025 “following a criticism from the Director Normal of Customs” and after “an inspection carried out in April 2024 by the Nationwide Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigations”, indicated the judicial supply. The investigations have been entrusted to the Nationwide Anti-Fraud Workplace and the Normal Directorate of Inner Safety.
