{"id":471192,"date":"2026-05-06T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471192\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:06:10","slug":"putin-only-cares-about-parades-fury-as-russia-rains-missiles-on-ukraine-during-24-hour-truce-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471192\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Putin only cares about parades\u2019: fury as Russia rains missiles on Ukraine during 24-hour truce | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyiv has criticised Russia<\/a> for attacking several Ukrainian cities overnight with more than 100 combat drones and three missiles, in spite of a unilateral 24-hour ceasefire called by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s president had announced the truce after the Kremlin said it wanted a ceasefire<\/a> on Saturday during its annual military parade in Red Square \u2013 but he said he would reciprocate if Vladimir Putin broke Ukraine\u2019s ceasefire, which ends at midnight on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Instead of pausing operations, Moscow has intensified them, with a series of devastating bombings on busy urban areas. On Tuesday, 28 civilians were killed in bomb and missile strikes in the Donetsk, Poltava and Dnipro regions and dozens were injured.<\/p>\n

Rescuers at the site of the kindergarten hit by a Russian drone strike in Sumy. Photograph: Reuters<\/p>\n

The latest strikes on Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia showed that Russia rejected peace, Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, Andriy Sybiga, said. \u201cThis shows fake calls for a ceasefire on May 9th have nothing to do with diplomacy. Putin only cares about military parades, not human lives,\u201d he wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

Sybiga added: \u201cSuch attitude necessitates strong and increased pressure on the Russian regime, including new rounds of sanctions, isolation, accountability for Russian crimes, and enhanced support for Ukraine in all areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s drone and bomb attacks on Tuesday were the most deadly in Ukraine for weeks. They came at a time when Russia\u2019s advances on the battlefield have practically stopped, with its armed forces losing more territory in April that they gained \u2013 for the first time since 2024.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has taken widespread measures to protect Saturday\u2019s parade \u2013 which celebrates the allies\u2019 victory over Nazi Germany in the second world war \u2013 after recent long-range Ukrainian drone strikes on a range of targets. For the first time in nearly 20 years<\/a> the event will take place without a display of tanks and ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

Air defence systems have been transferred to the Russian capital from other areas, and the mobile internet network has been shut down, apparently as a security precaution. It is unclear if Ukraine will seek to disrupt the event, or instead target Russia\u2019s oil infrastructure and military-industrial sites.<\/p>\n

Rescuers working at the site of a Russian strike on a private building in Kharkiv on Wednesday. Photograph: Sergey Kozlov\/EPA<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s defence ministry said it downed 53 Ukrainian drones between 21.00 and 07.00 (1800-0400 GMT) \u2013 far fewer than in previous days. It did not say whether any of the drones attacked after Kyiv\u2019s unilateral truce was supposed to come into effect at midnight.<\/p>\n

Talks on ending Europe\u2019s worst conflict since the second world war have shown little progress. Putin has refused to moderate demands first made during his 2022 full-scale invasion, including the handover of swathes of Ukrainian territory and the removal of its pro-western government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyiv has criticised Russia for attacking several Ukrainian cities overnight with more than 100 combat drones and three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-471192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116527548705471431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}