CANADA PERSPECTIVE

Ottawa covers the Easter truce with dual focus: the Globe and Mail details the Kremlin's announcement and Zelensky's mirrored response, while CBC highlights that Ukrainian initiative for the pause preceded Moscow's. Canada, a major contributor to the military training program for Ukrainian forces (Operation UNIFIER), frames this truce within the broader context of failed mediation attempts. Canadian press notes that Putin explicitly 'waited' for Kyiv to do the same, reversing the actual chronology — Zelensky had proposed a halt to hostilities for Easter before the Kremlin co-opted it. This narrative inversion is noted with characteristic diplomatic precision: without direct accusation but with enough detail for readers to draw their own conclusions.