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Vladimir Putin calls for impermanent Easter ceasefire
Ukraine and Russia blamed each different connected Sunday for breaking the one-day Easter ceasefire that President Vladimir Putin announced, with some sides accusing the different of launching attacks overnight.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of creating a mendacious quality of honoring the Easter ceasefire, saying his country's forces had recorded 59 instances of Russian shelling and 5 assaults by units on the beforehand line, arsenic good arsenic dozens of drone strikes.
"As of Easter morning, we tin accidental that the Russian service is trying to make a wide content of a ceasefire, but successful immoderate places, it does not wantonness idiosyncratic attempts to beforehand and inflict losses connected Ukraine," Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X.
In a aboriginal update, Zelenskyy said that contempt Ukraine declaring a symmetrical attack to Russian actions, determination had been an summation successful Russian shelling and drone attacks since 10 a.m. section time. He said, however, that it was "a bully thing, astatine least, that determination were nary aerial raid sirens."
"In practice, either Putin does not person afloat power implicit his army, oregon the concern proves that successful Russia, they person nary volition of making a genuine determination toward ending the war, and are lone funny successful favorable PR coverage," helium wrote.
In this photograph provided by Ukraine's 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade property service, a ruined metropolis halfway successful Kostyantynivka, the tract of dense battles with Russian troops, successful the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, April 19, 2025.
Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP
Meanwhile, Russia's Defense Ministry said that Ukrainian forces launched overnight attacks successful the Donetsk portion and had sent 48 drones into Russian territory.
According to the ministry, determination were "dead and wounded among the civilian population," without giving details. It claimed Russian troops had strictly observed the ceasefire.
Russia-installed officials successful the partially occupied Ukrainian portion of Kherson besides said that Ukrainian forces continued their attacks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin crosses himself during the solemnisation of the Orthodox Easter astatine the Christ the Saviour Cathedral, aboriginal April 20, 2025 successful Moscow, Russia.
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According to the Kremlin, the ceasefire volition past from 6 p.m. Moscow clip connected Saturday to midnight pursuing Easter Sunday. Putin offered nary details connected however the ceasefire would beryllium monitored oregon whether it would screen airstrikes oregon ongoing crushed battles that rage astir the clock.
The evident nonaccomplishment to observe adjacent an Easter ceasefire comes aft President Trump said Friday that negotiations betwixt Ukraine and Russia are "coming to a head" and insisted that neither broadside is "playing" him successful his propulsion to extremity the grinding three-year war.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump said helium hopes Russia and Ukraine volition marque a woody this week.
"BOTH WILL THEN START TO DO BIG BUSINESS WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WHICH IS THRIVING, AND MAKE A FORTUNE!" he wrote connected Truth Social.
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