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20 Apr 2025


NextImg:Putin’s Easter ceasefire gimmick bodes ill for Trump’s peace deal
Europe | Slow progress

Putin’s Easter ceasefire gimmick bodes ill for Trump’s peace deal

The Kremlin’s grey-zone war in the Black Sea shows its real intent 

|Mykolaiv and Ochakiv

THE BALD MAN has not moved for more than three years. She arrived to take on a cargo of sunflower oil on the day before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and, along with 28 other foreign-owned vessels, has been trapped in the port of Mykolaiv, some 60km from the front line, ever since.

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