Vladimir Putin’s “unilateral” ceasefire declaration – a bid to use Easter as a propaganda tool – was a deliberate waste of time intended to shift attention away from the Russian president’s original sin.
That sin – better understood as an international crime that led to more crimes against humanity – was the 2014 invasion of Ukraine, and the 2022 attempt at a full-scale Anschluss, along with the mass murder and deliberate targeting of civilians that followed.