Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> has also dismissed the 72-hour truce, which came as US President Donald Trump suggested he is growing frustrated with Moscow\u2019s failure to agree on a ceasefire, as \u201cunserious\u201d.<\/p>\nHe accused Moscow of \u201cplaying games to create a pleasant atmosphere to allow for Putin\u2019s exit from isolation on May 9\u201d.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy also said Ukraine could not guarantee the safety of any foreign dignitaries, adding that Russia was responsible for its own security.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Russians are asking for a ceasefire on May 9 and are themselves firing at Ukraine every day. This is cynicism of the highest order,\u201d he wrote on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Putin said in his original declaration of the 72-hour pause in the fighting that Russian forces would respond if the country was fired upon.<\/p>\n
Kyiv targeted<\/p>\n
Russia has continued to bombard Ukraine despite its proposed ceasefire from May 8.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Ukraine\u2019s air force said it had shot down 42 of 116 drones launched by Russia in an overnight attack.<\/p>\n
At least 11 people, including two children, were injured in the capital, Kyiv, during the attack, Timur Tkachenko, the head of the Kyiv city military administration, said on social media.<\/p>\n
Cherkasy in central Ukraine was also targeted. Emergency services reported that one person was injured and residential buildings and civil infrastructure were damaged.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, war bloggers reported on Monday that Ukrainian forces have attacked Russia\u2019s western Kursk region \u2013 a portion of which they occupied for months before being ejected last month, according to Russia\u2019s military.<\/p>\n
Firing missiles, Ukraine\u2019s forces were reported by several sources to have smashed through the border.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate comment from either Russia or Ukraine, but Russian war bloggers published maps showing Ukrainian forces trying to push over the border in two places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia has reported that it repelled a drone attack on Moscow as the capital city prepares to host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32302,2000,299,12,332,7661,37597,657,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-76233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-drone-strikes","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","14":"tag-the-world-wars","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114454793306533858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}