The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, denounced violations on the previous day and “isolated” attempts to advance some points of the front. “In general, from the morning of Easter, we can say that the Russian army is trying to create a general impression of a high fire, but in some places it does not abandon the isolated attempts to advance and inflict casualties to Ukraine,” Zelenski said in a post on social networks.
Putin, hours before going to an Orthodox Easter Mass at the last minute on Saturday, announced by surprise the fire until midnight this Sunday. The gesture occurred after the next few days, unless Moscow and kyiv show seriousness to negotiate.
According to the Ukrainian president, on Saturday night, after declaring that unilateral Russian truce, there were hundreds of bombings. First of this Sunday, the Ukrainian forces reported 59 attacks and five assault attempts along the front line, he said. kyiv reiterated that he is willing to extend the high fire for 30 days, but said that if Russia continues to fight this Sunday, Ukraine will also do so. “Ukraine will continue to act as a mirror,” said Zelenski.
This Sunday, the president of the invaded country urged the Ukrainians not to lose hope that peace will return to their country and to persevere to overcome the difficult path of war. In a video in which it appears in front of the main church of kyiv, the Cathedral of Santa Sofía, the president said: “We know what we defend. We know why we fight. For whom and for the good of whom.”
Russia, on the other hand, denounced a Ukrainian attack without victims in Donetsk and another with drones and mortars against three locations in the occupied area of Jersón. The first 15 hours of the ephemeral truce have also witnessed a exchange of prisoners of war between both parties, with 243 for each part, plus 31 wounded Ukrainians for 15 Russians. Despite Washington’s warning that it will give up negotiations if there are no progress soon, the efforts of the moment seem to continue.
On Saturday, the special envoy of the United States for Ukraine, the retired general Keith Kellogg, announced in Fox News that an American delegation “we have advanced with a possible high fire fire. And that’s why we return to London to consolidate it,” he said. “We are on the right track. I know it’s difficult, it’s really difficult, but I also think two months ago would have been unimaginable,” he added.
