Russian drone assaults on a number of Ukrainian areas in a single day after ‘Easter truce’ ends, says Ukraine’s navy – Ukraine warfare stay

In a freshly issued assertion, the Russian navy has confirmed that its forces have resumed strikes on Ukraine after the shock “Easter truce”.

“With the end of the ceasefire, the armed forces of the Russian Federation continued to conduct the special military operation,” the Russian navy stated.

The “special military operation” is what Russian officers name Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which was launched by the Kremlin in February 2022.

The Russian defence ministry claimed the nation’s navy “strictly observed the ceasefire and remained at the previously occupied lines and positions”.

This stands in distinction from the ceasefire violations Ukraine has reported because the Easter truce was introduced by Vladimir Putin on Saturday.

Ukrainian forces reported practically 3,000 violations of Russia’s ceasefire with the heaviest assaults and shelling seen alongside the Pokrovsk a part of the frontline, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Monday.

Within the Kherson area, three individuals had been killed and three injured in Russian assaults over the previous day, its governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported in a publish on Telegram.

He stated that Russian forces focused residential areas and a retailer within the assaults.

Amongst these killed within the Kherson area was a girl who was hit by a drone whereas strolling down the road, in keeping with Gyunduz Mamedov, a former deputy prosecutor normal of Ukraine. We’ve got not but been capable of independently confirm these claims and studies.

Welcome again to our stay protection of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.

Ukraine’s navy 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 together 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 “stop all military activity” alongside the frontline throughout this window for “humanitarian reasons”. However each Kyiv and Moscow accused one another of violating the ceasefire, with drone strikes and shelling.

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

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

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

There have been no rapid studies 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 instances.

• Washington stated it might 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 say {that a} breakthrough was inside a couple of days’ attain. “Hopefully Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week,” he posted on Sunday. “Both will then start to do big business with the United States of America, which is thriving, and make a fortune.” On Friday, Trump stated he would finish US peace efforts except 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 instances 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.