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Ukraine said Russia was attacking crossed the beforehand enactment connected Thursday, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin's bid for a three-day truce, which helium said would instrumentality effect Thursday morning, a "farce."
The Russian service said it was responding to Ukrainian attacks but observing the truce, which Putin unilaterally ordered to coincide with a monolithic parade successful Moscow to people Victory Day, which Russia observes ever May 9 to commemorate the Soviet Union's 1945 decision of Nazi Germany's invading forces.
Putin's impermanent of grant this year, China's President Xi Jinping, was already successful Moscow Thursday up of the Victory Day events. He's the astir almighty of respective satellite leaders attending to amusement that, contempt planetary sanctions and wide condemnation of Putin's alleged "special subject operation" successful Ukraine, the Russian person does person friends.
"Predictably, Putin's 'Parade ceasefire' proves to beryllium a farce," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said Thursday. "Russian forces proceed to onslaught crossed the full beforehand line. From midnight to midday, Russia carried retired 734 ceasefire violations and 63 battle operations."
Ukraine would respond and stock each accusation with its allies, Sybiga said.
Though Kyiv ne'er agreed to the three-day truce, Russia accused Ukraine of violating it.
"The Russian Armed Forces are strictly observing the ceasefire. This includes nary strikes by aircraft, rocket forces, artillery oregon unmanned aerial vehicles," Russia's defence ministry said during a briefing. "Despite the announcement of the ceasefire, Ukrainian service units person not ceased hostilities against Russian troops."
Nazar, 33, a Ukrainian serviceman of the 72nd Chorni Zaporozhtsi Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, prepares first-person presumption (FPV) drones to motorboat toward Russian troops, during a unilaterally projected three-day ceasefire declared by Russia, adjacent the beforehand enactment successful the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, May 8, 2025.
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Ukraine's aerial unit earlier reported Russian guided weaponry strikes connected the bluish portion of Sumy.
"No rocket attacks oregon onslaught drones were recorded successful Ukrainian airspace. However, during the night, the force intensified tactical aviation strikes utilizing guided aerial bombs successful the Sumy region," the aerial unit said, aft reporting respective launches successful the morning.
Earlier successful the day, Russia struck a residential country adjacent the municipality of Bilopillya, adjacent to the borderline betwixt Sumy and Russia's Kursk region, Ukraine's exigency services said.
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