Overview
- President Trump announced Friday a three-day ceasefire for May 9–11 with a reciprocal exchange of 1,000 prisoners, and Kyiv and Moscow confirmed they would comply.
- The Red Square ceremony went ahead Saturday under tight security in a scaled-back format that featured no tanks or heavy hardware and mobile internet blackouts in central Moscow.
- Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree ordering his forces not to target the parade, saying bringing prisoners home outweighs symbolic pressure on the Kremlin.
- The pause followed days of dueling unilateral truces that both sides violated with drone and missile attacks, yet early reporting on Saturday noted no breach during the parade.
- Trump’s surprise intervention left questions about how the deal was struck as U.S. officials resumed talks with Ukrainian negotiators in Florida and any extension beyond Monday remains uncertain.