Russia and Ukraine on Sunday accused each other of violating an Easter truce announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 30-hour truce had been meant to start Saturday to mark the religious holiday, but Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of keeping up its attacks on the front line.read more<\/p>\n
Ukraine proposes that Russia abandon drone and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure for at least 30 days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs of this hour, since the beginning of the day, the Russian army has violated Putin\u2019s ceasefire more than two thousand times. There have already been 67 Russian assaults against our positions across various directions, with the highest number in the Pokrovsk direction. There were a total of 1,355 cases of Russian shelling, 713 of which involved heavy weaponry. If Russia does not agree to such a step, it will be proof that it intends to continue doing only those things which destroy human lives and prolong the war,\u201d Zelenskyy said on X.<\/p>\n
\nA report by Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi as of 8:00 p.m. on Easter Day.<\/p>\n
As of this hour, since the beginning of the day, the Russian army has violated Putin\u2019s ceasefire more than two thousand times. There have already been 67 Russian assaults against our positions across various\u2026<\/p>\n
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Zelenskyy accused Russia on Sunday of creating a false appearance of honoring an Easter ceasefire, saying Moscow continued to launch attacks after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral temporary truce. In later updates, Zelenskyy said that despite Ukraine declaring a symmetrical approach to Russian actions, \u201cthe trend of increasing the use of heavy weaponry by Russian forces continues.\u201d He said, however, that it was \u201ca good thing, at least, that there were no air raid sirens.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Russian defence ministry said its troops had \u201cstrictly observed the ceasefire\u201d.<\/p>\n
Moscow said it had \u201crepelled\u201d assaults by Ukraine and accused Kyiv of launching hundreds of drones and shells, causing civilian casualties.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite the announcement of the Easter truce, Ukrainian units at night made attempts to attack\u201d Russia\u2019s positions in the Donetsk region, its defence ministry added.<\/p>\n
Putin\u2019s order to halt all combat over the Easter weekend came after months of efforts by US President Donald Trump to get the war rivals to agree to a ceasefire. However, on Friday, Trump threatened to withdraw from talks if no progress was made.<\/p>\n
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