Charles Maines
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534 appearances
55 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 5 Sep
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For the first time in nearly 20 years, the Victory Day parade on Red Square featured no tanks, missiles, or nuclear launchers, a reflection of Kremlin fears of Ukrainian drone strikes that proved unnecessary.
Both Moscow and Kiev agreed to a three-day ceasefire following a last-minute appeal from President Trump, and there were no disruptions to the Red Square ceremony.
Yet in a combative speech before troops, President Vladimir Putin made clear Russia intended to continue military operations.
Invoking the Soviet victory, Putin insisted Russians were united in a just cause against an aggressive Ukraine backed by NATO.
That despite polls that show growing public fatigue with the conflict now in its fifth year.
Charles Baines, NPR News.
We're stopping on the runway.
The Trump administration first introduced the sanctions waiver in March, part of an attempt to level out global energy prices amid the war in Iran.
The policy's extension effectively allows countries to legally purchase previously sanctioned Russian oil for the second month in a row.
The Kremlin's U.S.
envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, said the move amounted to an acknowledgement of the crucial role of Russian energy in maintaining the stability of the global economy.
Dmitriev predicted more than 100 million additional barrels of Russian oil would soon reach global markets.
Critics of the U.S.
sanctions waiver say it provides the Kremlin with a windfall for its war in Ukraine in a moment when the Russian economy had otherwise been struggling.
Charles Baines, NPR News, Moscow.
In a statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces would abide by the ceasefire from 4 p.m.
Saturday through end of Easter Sunday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had previously called for an Easter truce and agreed to Putin's offer, saying it was a chance for Russia to choose real progress towards peace and avoid a return to hostilities.
Yet the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later characterized the ceasefire as a temporary humanitarian gesture,
Peskov made clear in Moscow's view any lasting settlement depended on Ukraine making further territorial concessions, a demand Kiev has rejected, not least without ironclad security guarantees from the U.S.
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