Russian drone assaults on a number of Ukrainian areas in a single day after ‘Easter truce’ ends, says Ukraine’s army – Ukraine struggle dwell | World information

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Ukraine’s army has reported Russian drone assaults on a number of areas in a single day, hours after the 30 hour “Easter ceasefire” declared by Vladimir Putin got here to an finish.

In a televised assembly along with his commander-in-chief on Saturday, the Russian president stated the momentary ceasefire would final from 6pm Moscow time (4pm BST) on Saturday till midnight (10pm BST) on Sunday.

Putin claimed he had ordered his forces to “cease all army exercise” alongside the frontline throughout this window for “humanitarian causes”. However each Kyiv and Moscow accused one another of violating the ceasefire, with drone strikes and shelling.

Ukraine’s air pressure stated at the moment that Russia launched 96 drones and three missiles in in a single day assaults concentrating on Ukraine, inflicting harm within the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Cherkasy areas.

Air defence models shot down 42 Russian drones, and one other 47 drones had been redirected by digital warfare, the air pressure wrote in a submit on Telegram.

Air raid alerts have reportedly been activated in Kyiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia.

There have been no speedy reviews of accidents or main damages from the assaults, regional Ukrainian officers stated on social media.

In another developments:

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Vladimir Putin’s Easter ceasefire declaration as a pretend “PR” train and stated Russian troops had continued their drone and artillery assaults throughout many components of the frontline on Sunday. He claimed Moscow had violated its personal ceasefire hundreds of occasions.

• Washington stated it will welcome an extension of the truce, and Zelenskyy stated Ukraine would pause strikes for 30 days. Putin, nevertheless, didn’t give orders to increase the 30 hour truce past Sunday.

• Donald Trump used the scenario to assert {that a} breakthrough was inside just a few days’ attain. “Hopefully Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week,” he posted on Sunday. “Each will then begin to do massive enterprise with america of America, which is flourishing, and make a fortune.” On Friday, Trump stated he would finish US peace efforts until the 2 sides confirmed motion.

• Russia’s Voronezh area that borders Ukraine was underneath air raid alerts for 2 hours in a single day, the area’s governor stated on Telegram.

• Russia’s defence ministry stated on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had shot at Russian positions 444 occasions and stated it had counted greater than 900 Ukrainian drone assaults, saying additionally that there have been deaths and accidents among the many civilian inhabitants.