In Ukraine Easter truce but the fighting continues

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a thirty-hour unilateral Easter truce in Ukraine on Saturday in Moscow by Sunday at midnight. He decided to do so for humanitarian reasons, he said.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Green On Sunday morning, he announced on social networks that « the Russian army is trying to create a general impression of a ceasefire, while in some areas it still continues with isolated attempts to advance and cause losses to Ukraine. »

In the first hours of the ceasefire on Saturday, Russia, according to Kiev, continued attacks with land forces, artillery and unmanned aircraft. From midnight to six in the morning after local time, the number of attacks has fallen. In the meantime, the Ukrainian army reported 59 cases of Russian artillery firing and five attempts to attack Russian units.

The Russian Defense Ministry denies his allegations. « All Russian units in the area of ​​special military operations from 19. April from 6pm after Moscow, consistently respect the fire interruption regime and occupy current positions, » they wrote.

Moscow also accused Kyiv of not respecting the ceasefire. Local authorities from the occupied Doneck are reported today on alleged Ukrainian ceasefire violations. At least three explosions erupted in the morning, and Ukrainian artillery also attacked the town of Gorlovko, according to Russian news agencies. The Russian Ministry of Defense later stated that the Ukrainian forces were also fired by Russian border regions, and in the attacks that drone also benefited.

In recent weeks, there has been an intensive international diplomacy that has tried to end the fighting. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was met with Putin three times in two months, a Russian envoy Kirill Dmitry But he recently flew to Washington. A few days ago, Witkoff and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Paris at talks about Ukraine with President Emmanuel Macron, the Ukrainian delegation was also present, reports BBC.

However, except Putin’s short -term Easter ceasefire, negotiations have not yet borne fruit. The US administration is becoming more and more eager for lack of progress, and Trump, who promised to reach a ceasefire in Ukraine in the day after the presidential term, even threatened to resign from attempting to make a peace agreement.