Both Russia and Ukraine on Monday reported airstrikes of their respective international locations as an Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin expired at midnight with out an extension.
Ukraine’s Air Force claimed on Telegram that the nation’s air defenses shot down 42 out of 96 drones launched by Russia in a single day and that Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv had been the areas affected.
In the northeastern Kharkiv area, Governor Oleh Synyehubov wrote on Telegram that three separate missile strikes within the area’s front-line Kupiansk district resulted in harm to residential buildings.
Meanwhile, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak stated {that a} fireplace broke out at a meals enterprise within the metropolis of Pavlohrad because of the drone assault, including that harm was additionally reported within the settlements of Pidhorodne and Mezhova.
“Over our sky, eight Russian drones were destroyed by air defense forces and means. However, as a result of Russian aggression, an infrastructure facility was damaged,” Cherkasy Governor Ihor Taburets stated.
Local authorities in Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Sumy additionally reported assaults of their respective areas.
The studies got here as a 30-hour Easter ceasefire, which started on Saturday at 6 pm Moscow time (1500GMT), expired at midnight Monday with out an extension, although each Russia and Ukraine have accused one another of violating the ceasefire because it started.
In a press release on X quickly after the ceasefire’s expiration, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Moscow violated the ceasefire all through the previous day practically 3,000 occasions, with the biggest exercise going down within the Pokrovsk entrance within the nation’s japanese Donetsk area.
“Russia’s promise of a full ceasefire also did not apply to the Kursk direction,” Zelenskyy stated, including: “Overall, across the frontline, there were 96 Russian assaults, 1,882 instances of shelling on our positions, including 812 involving heavy weaponry, and over 950 instances of FPV (first-person view) drone use by Russian forces.”
The Ukrainian president added that Russia has but to answer Kyiv’s proposal for a full 30-day ceasefire after Easter, or to the proposal to increase the aerial ceasefire over Ukraine.
“The nature of Ukraine’s actions will remain symmetrical: ceasefire will be met with ceasefire, and Russian strikes will be met with our own in defense. Actions always speak louder than words,” he stated.
RUSSIA’S REACTION
In a later assertion on Telegram, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its air protection methods downed 104 Ukrainian drones because the finish of the ceasefire.
Claiming that its forces “strictly” noticed the halt to hostilities as per Putin’s orders, the assertion accused Kyiv of constant strikes on its army positions, in addition to on civilian targets within the border areas of the Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk areas, and Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014.
“A total of 4,900 violations of the ceasefire (by Ukraine) were recorded,” the assertion stated, additional noting that the Russian aspect continued its army actions as a part of its “special military operation” in Ukraine after the ceasefire’s expiration.
In this regard, the assertion stated that Russian forces inflicted losses on Kyiv’s army throughout offensives in Ukraine’s Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia areas.
It additionally claimed that the Russian army broken the infrastructure of a army airfield, ammunition, and drone depots, in addition to momentary deployment factors of Ukrainian troops in 74 districts.
Source: www.anews.com.tr