Despite having agreed in a humanitarian truce for Orthodox Easter, Zelensky and Putin have been on mutually accused of continuing the attacks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accused Russia today of creating a false appearance of ceasefire At Easter, having continued to bombard and attack drone attacks at night.
“On Easter morning, we can say that the Russian army is trying to create a general impression of a ceasefire, but in some places it does not abandon individual attempts to move forward and inflict losses to Ukraine”Says Zelenskyy in a message published on the social network” X “.
The complaint of Volodymyr Zelensky comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin, having ordered on Saturday to his troops to make a ceasefire in Ukraine in Orthodox Easter Until 22:00 Sunday (Lisbon time) and urged Kiev to do the same.
Despite Putin’s statement, Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian forces registered 59 cases of bombing Russians and five units attacks in various areas along the front line, as well as dozens of drone attacks.
The Ukrainian President argued that Russia must fully respect the conditions of the ceasefire and reiterated the Ukraine proposal of extend the truce for 30 daysfrom today’s midnight.
Zelenskyy said the proposal “continues on the table” and that Ukraine will act in accordance with “the current situation on the ground.”
At the end of Saturday, Russian officers installed in the partially occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson said the Ukrainian forces continued their attacks.
“Ukrainian troops continue to attack peaceful cities In the Kherson region, violating the Easter truce, ”wrote the governor appointed by Moscow, Vladimir Saldo, in his account on Telegram.
Vladimir Putin announced the temporary ceasefire invoking humanitarian reasonsbut did not detail how ceasefire would be controlled or cover the air attacks or ongoing land battles, which unfold 24 hours a day.
The ceasefire announcement was made after US President Donald Trump said on Friday that negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are “a criticalAnd that none of the sides are “playing” with him in his effort to end the three -year war.
Russia accuses Kiev of night attacks
The Russian Ministry of Defense also accused the Ukraine of night their positions in the Donetsk region.
“Despite the announcement of the Easter truce, the Ukrainian units tried to attack Russian positions in the areas of Sukhaya Balka and Bogatyr in the Donetsk Popular Republic at night, but these attacks were repelled,” the Russian Ministry of Defense announced, referring to the villages located in the eastern part of the Donetsk region controlled by Russia.
The information published in the Telegram Social Network, and cited by international agencies, also indicates that Kiev launched 48 dronesone of which was targeted by the attached Crimea Peninsula.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had already accused Russia today of creating a false appearance of ceasefire in Easter and continued to bombard and attack drone attacks at night.
Ukraine requires excuses to Fox News
The Ukrainian government demanded an apology from the US network Fox News, a means of media aligned with the Trump administration, for declaring that Kiev is a Russian city during a transmission of Easter celebrations.
Fox News covered the Easter service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the São Miguel das Dourados Monastery in Kiev, along with a Cult ceremony in Moscow, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin participated.
At one point, on images of the Ukrainian capital, the text on television showed the message “Kiev, Russia” for several minutes before the mistake was corrected.
The spokesman for the Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Heorkii Tykhyi, required an explanation of what happened.
“If this was a mistake and not a deliberate political statement, it should have an apology And an investigation into who made the error, ”he said in his account on the social network X.
Fox has not yet commented on the matter.
At the end of last year, Tykhyi also demanded an apology from FIFA for designate Crimea as part of Russia On a map used during the qualifying draw for the 2026 World Cup in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
