Russia is intensively continuing the offensive in east of Ukraineon Sunday, the Ukrainian General Staff said, saying that only this day there were more than 200 clashes with Russian forces, TASR writes, according to the DPA report.
The fighting intensified especially around the strategically important city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian forces informed that during Sunday they bounced off 70 Russian attacks, while 12 others, according to their statement, continue. Pokrovsk is an important transport hub. Russian forces are reportedly approaching it from the east, south and southwest. Russia’s attempts to break from the west to the neighboring Dnepropetrov region have so far been repelled by Ukraine.
The attacks occur despite the continued diplomatic efforts of the United States to mediate a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev. US President Donald Trump recently He proposed an unconditional 30-day ceasefire, with which the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Greenable agreed, but Russian President Vladimir Putin refused.
Instead, the Kremlin chief announced a 72-hour ceasefire on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. According to Putin, Russian troops will stop all their military actions from midnight on 8 May until midnight. The one -sided ceasefire coincides with a large military parade organized by Russia on 9 May on the Red Square in Moscow.
However, Kiev rejected this limited break in the fighting with the request to extend the ceasefire to 30 days. “The Russians are asking for a ceasefire on May 9, and they themselves shoot Ukraine every day. It is the highest cynicism,” He wrote Greeding on Sunday on the telegram platform.
