Ukraine and Russia accused each other’s violation of 30-hour “Easter treasomes”, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky argued that Russian troops had violated the ceasefire “more than 2,000 times” from the beginning of Sunday.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that “rejected” attacks of Ukraine and accused Kyiv launch of hundreds of drones and shells. The BBC has not independently verified receivables by warring parties.
The truce is set to expire at 22:00 BST (00:00 in Moscow time) on Sunday.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump – who went in the end in the end, “he said” hope that Russia and Ukraine would arrange this week, “without further details.”
On Saturday, Putin said that he would be the end of all the hostilities from 16:00 BST on Saturday until 22:00 BST on Sunday. Kiev said that he would also adhere.
“I order all military actions for this period to stop,” Putin said in his announcement.
“We assume that the Ukrainian party will follow our example. At the same time, our troops must be ready to take away possible injuries of truce and provocation from the enemy, any of its aggressive action.”
However, Zelensky on Sunday that was a total of 1,355 cases of Russian shelling, of which 713 interfered with the report of the commander of the main armed forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi.
But he added that “there was no warning for air attacks today,” referring to the daily Russian and a rocket’s impact against Ukraine.
He also suggested that “ceases any strikes using drones and rockets in civilian infrastructure for a period of at least 30 days, with the possibility of extension.”
Earlier, Zelensky told Putin’s stake about the truce, the “PR” exercise and his words were “empty”. He also accused Kremlin to try to create a “general impression of the switch”.
“This Easter showed clear that the only source of this war is, and the reason for which it is dragged, is Russia,” said the president.
The Russian Ministry of Defense insisted that her troops “strictly watched the truce”.
Surprise of “Easter truce” Announcement arrived soon after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to “cross” the broker further Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
Ukraine said it would be ready to extend a truce.
Meanwhile, the Dmitry Sand spokesman said that Putin did not give an order for the expansion of “Easter truce”, Russian State News Agency reported.
There were mixed reactions about 30-hour trim from Ukrainians who attend Easter morning services in Kiev and Russian city on Sunday.
“I don’t think this man (Putin) has nothing to do with humanity,” Olena Poprych said a 45-year-old lawyer said Reuters News Agency.
Meanwhile in Donetsk, where most of the city under Russian control since 2014. The inhabitants expressed a similar distrust that Zelensky would keep watering from the switch terms.
“I looked very carefully his (green) reactions,” Vladimir said, who attended the Easter morning services in Donetsk. “Nothing was anything about breaking fire … just vague statements, not giving no confidence that we will not be shelled.”
On Sunday, the British government described the proposed recircciliar fire as a “one-day cask,”, saying that they claimed the truce included “violations, including the killing and wounding of innocent Ukrainians”.
A statement from a foreign, Joint Office for Fellowship and Development (FCDO) said that the truce was installed by “pattern of previous false cross-sections” and instead called for a long time for 30 days in the fight, as Ukraine proposed.
“As always, we do not see the evidence that President Putin seriously prepares peace,” the FCDO statement states.
And Russia and Ukraine accused each other to break a ceasefire. Putin announced one-day ceasefire in Ukraine until midnight Moscow time (2100 GMT) on Sunday.
Russia is 24. February launched full invasion of Ukraine 24. February. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people – the vast majority of soldiers – killed or injured on all sides.
The United States was directly discussed with Russia as part of its efforts to end the war, but it struggled to bring great progress.
Last month, Moscow came up with a long list of conditions in response to full and unconditional recircciliaries that arranged the United States and Ukraine.
On Friday, State Secretary Marco Rubio said that the United States would not “continue with these efforts for weeks and months, as it was” other focusing priorities. “
“We must now determine very quickly – and talk about the days – whether it is feasible or not,” he added.
“If that won’t happen, then we’ll just move on.”
2025-04-20 21:02:00