{"id":65084,"date":"2026-05-10T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/65084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:47:11","slug":"russia-breaks-ceasefire-agreement-with-ukraine-within-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/65084\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia breaks ceasefire agreement with Ukraine within minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia launched a fresh wave of drone and missile attacks across Ukraine just hours after a ceasefire announced by Kyiv took effect, according to Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking the ceasefire<img alt=\"Ukraine\u2019s air force said Russian President Vladimir Putin launched three ballistic missiles and more than 100 drones in an overnight attack. By: MEGA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wonderwall_734\/400ce96fee46d3bcc55dbe5179b24cfc.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s air force said Russian President Vladimir Putin launched three ballistic missiles and more than 100 drones in an overnight attack. By: MEGA<\/p>\n<p>Both Russia and Ukraine separately declared unilateral ceasefires ahead of Moscow\u2019s Victory Day commemorations, marking the Soviet Union\u2019s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The Kremlin said it would observe a two-day ceasefire on May 8 and 9 and expected Ukraine \u201cto follow suit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky instead announced a ceasefire beginning at midnight on May 6, saying Ukrainian forces would act \u201csymmetrically\u201d to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the announcement, Ukraine\u2019s air force said Russian President Vladimir Putin launched three ballistic missiles and more than 100 drones overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Kyiv\u2019s ceasefire took effect, officials in the southern Zaporizhzhia region issued air raid alerts warning of Russian strikes involving laser-guided aerial bombs.<\/p>\n<p>Russian bomb strike<img alt=\"Russia claimed its air defenses intercepted 53 Ukrainian drones over Russian and annexed territories. By: MEGA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wonderwall_734\/edb7f9dacf7fe6de021740f947a9ec05.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Russia claimed its air defenses intercepted 53 Ukrainian drones over Russian and annexed territories. By: MEGA<\/p>\n<p>In the northern Sumy region, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said one person was killed after a Russian bomb struck a car. He later reported that two Russian drones hit a civilian building in central Sumy.<\/p>\n<p>In Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said several homes were damaged when a Russian drone hit a residential building, sparking a fire. Ukraine\u2019s emergency services said two people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Moscow of violating the ceasefire, saying Russia had \u201conce again ignored a realistic and fair call to end hostilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia said its air defenses intercepted 53 Ukrainian drones over Russian and annexed territories.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has also warned it would launch a \u201cretaliatory, massive missile strike on the center of Kyiv\u201d if Ukraine targets Russia\u2019s Victory Day events.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Minimize the danger\u2019<img alt=\"The Kremlin said it would scale back its annual military parade to \u2018minimize the danger\u2019 of Ukrainian attacks. By: MEGA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wonderwall_734\/213e86ce25a146e0c7bbc8fd2fd1b0c3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin said it would scale back its annual military parade to \u2018minimize the danger\u2019 of Ukrainian attacks. By: MEGA<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin said it would scale back its annual military parade to \u201cminimize the danger\u201d of Ukrainian attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for Russian leaders to take real steps to end their war, if the Russian Ministry of Defense believes that it will not hold a parade in Moscow without the goodwill of Ukraine,\u201d Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian authorities said at least 12 people were killed and 43 were injured in Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia, just before Kyiv\u2019s ceasefire began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia launched a fresh wave of drone and missile attacks across Ukraine just hours after a ceasefire announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[2313,329,38235,8122,330,4480,328],"class_list":{"0":"post-65084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vladimir-putin","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-russian-bomb","11":"tag-the-kremlin","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-ukrainian-officials","14":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116551302889150371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}