🇺🇸🇸🇾 Massive U.S. Army convoys withdraw from Syria, heading toward Iraq.

The first phase of the U.S. withdrawal from Syria saw around 600 troops pulled out, bringing total troop numbers down to about 1,400.

Three U.S. bases in northeastern Syria were closed, including one near the Conoco gas field in Deir ez-Zor.

Some U.S. Army commanders support keeping at least 500 troops in Syria.

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🇺🇸/🇷🇺🇺🇦 Rubio says Trump admin may soon "move on" from Ukraine-Russia peace efforts: "It's not our war"

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. may "move on" from trying to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days.

"We are now reaching a point where we need to decide whether this is even possible or not," Rubio told reporters upon departure. "Because if it's not, then I think we're just going to move on."

"It's not our war," Rubio said. "We have other priorities to focus on." He said the U.S. administration wants to decide "in a matter of days."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ukraine-war-russia-rubio-says-us-may-move-on-peace-efforts-not-our-war/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=801076747

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇹 — US Vice President JD Vance says Italian is 'the most beautiful language imaginable', joking with Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, as he begins his Easter visit in Rome.

"She could've called me a jerk and I wouldn't know!"

🔗 Sky News (@SkyNews)

🇺🇸🇻🇦📹 — US Vice President JD Vance and family attending the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican

On video, Vice President JD Vance walks into St. Peter’s Basilica, holding his babies, to honor the Lord on Good Friday.

🇺🇸🇻🇦📹 — US Vice President JD Vance, his wife Usha, and three children in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica today for the Solemn Liturgy of the Fast of Good Friday

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🇷🇺🕊🇺🇦 — Russian State Media announces that Russian President Vladimir Putin declared an Easter ceasefire truce

➡️ The Easter truce will begin today at 6 p.m. Moscow time, Putin said.

➡️ He ordered that all military actions be stopped and halted for the duration of the Easter truce.

➡️ The progress of the truce will "show the readiness of the Kyiv regime" to desire and be able to peacefully resolve the issue, Putin said

➡️ Putin instructed Gerasimov to report separately when the territory of the Kursk region is "completely cleared of the enemy"

❗️The ceasefire is being introduced for humanitarian purposes and will be observed by the Russian group of troops, provided that Kyiv mutually observes it, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

https://news.1rj.ru/str/rian_ru/290135

🇩🇪✝️📞🇪🇺 — German Conservative Chancellor in waiting Friedrich Merz wishes the German population a Happy Easter and say that Germany is once again ready to take responsibility for European affairs

"The joyful message of Easter reminds us that change is possible. Germany will once again assume responsibility – in Europe and in the world. Not loudly, but reliably. Not arrogantly, but in partnership. It is now up to us to shape the future." (tm)

🔗 Friedrich Merz (@_FriedrichMerz)

🇷🇺🇺🇦🕊⚠️ — For nobody's surprise, both Ukrainian and Russian sources report that the Easter truce has already been violated.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — The Russians continue to fire in all directions, as before. They are currently conducting an information operation against Ukraine ," said Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council.

"The Russians are trying to pretend that they are "peacekeepers", but they have already refused an unconditional ceasefire on March 11," Kovalenko reminds.

And he adds that ideas for such information operations are usually proposed by the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin.

🔗 GeoInsider (@InsiderGeo)