{"id":5236,"date":"2026-04-12T08:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/5236\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:58:06","slug":"ukraine-and-russia-trade-accusations-of-orthodox-easter-truce-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/5236\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and Russia trade accusations of Orthodox Easter truce violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russia<\/a> accused each other on Sunday of violating a truce in place for Orthodox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/easter\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Easter<\/a> thousands of times, as the war dragged on into its fifth year.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides had agreed to observe the halt to hostilities for the religious holiday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to a proposal made by Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> more than a week before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of 7:00 am on 12 April, 2,299 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/ceasefire\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ceasefire<\/a> violations were recorded. Specifically: 28 enemy assault actions, 479 enemy shellings, 747 strikes by attack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/drones\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drones<\/a>&#8230; and 1,045 strikes by FPV drones,&#8221; the Ukrainian military&#8217;s general staff said in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were no missile strikes, guided aerial bomb strikes, or Shahed-type UAV strikes,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260411-russia-and-ukraine-set-to-begin-orthodox-easter-ceasefire\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Moscow, Kyiv report violations of 32-hour Orthodox Easter truce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In turn, Russia&#8217;s defence ministry accused Kyiv of nearly 2,000 breaches of its own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A total of 1,971 ceasefire violations by units of the Ukrainian armed forces were recorded between 4:00 pm Moscow time on April 12 and 8:00 am on April 12,&#8221; the ministry said, as reported by the TASS news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The truce had been due to last for 32 hours, from 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Saturday until the end of the day on Sunday, according to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE with AFP)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine and Russia accused each other on Sunday of violating a truce in place for Orthodox Easter thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3395,73,5,372,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-5236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}