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Russia and Ukraine have declared competing ceasefires in May 2026 — Moscow's tied to a two-day Victory Day window, Kyiv's open-ended — even as Russian strikes killed at least 20 civilians in the days surrounding the announcements. The rival proposals expose irreconcilable divides over territory, monitoring, and the fate of millions of Ukrainians under occupation, while the failure pattern of every previous ceasefire since 2014 offers little basis for confidence that either plan can hold.