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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | April 28th, 2025: Putin Announces Ceasefire In Ukraine & Pakistan Warns Of Imminent Indian Military Incursion
28 Apr 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, following a pivotal meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral at the Vatican, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a temporary, three-day ceasefire in Ukraine. But the international community remains highly skeptical of his motives. Later in the show—an update on the brewing conflict between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan, as their forces continue to trade cross-border gunfire, and leaders in Islamabad bolster their military defenses, warning of an imminent Indian military incursion into their territory. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDB for 2 free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250. Plus, for a limited time enjoy 5% off on almost everything site-wide excluding subscriptions and B-stock. Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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It's Monday, the 28th of April. Look at that. We are almost into May. Welcome to the BDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed. First, following a pivotal meeting between Ukrainian President Zelensky and U.S.
President Trump on the sidelines of Pope Francis' funeral at the Vatican, Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised a temporary three-day ceasefire and reiterated his claimed readiness to make a peace deal. We'll have those details.
Later in the show, an update on the brewing conflict between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan as their forces continue to trade cross-border gunfire and leaders in Islamabad bolster their military defenses, warning of an imminent military incursion by the Indian military into Pakistani territory. All right, today's afternoon spotlight.
As President Trump's patience wears thin over Moscow's reluctance to advance peace talks, Russian President Putin is offering what at first glance appears to be a small olive branch. It's very small, though one that comes with significant strings attached.
On Monday, the Kremlin said that Putin has ordered a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine to commence on the morning of 8th May, right, May 8th, and run through the 11th of May. Now, that's coinciding with celebrations to mark the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. It's according to the BBC.
A spokesman for the Kremlin said Putin declared the ceasefire based on, quote, humanitarian considerations. Obviously an odd choice of words, given Russia's deadly strike last week on a Kiev apartment block that left a dozen civilians dead. Oh, not to mention that Putin started this three-year war with his full invasion of Ukraine, but okay, suddenly he would like to be known as a humanitarian.
In announcing the planned pause in fighting, the Kremlin reiterated their claimed readiness to negotiate a settlement to the war, though one that addressed what they call, quote, the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis. That, of course, is the same thing they've said in the past. Now, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later added that any deal
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