. The president of the United States agreed with kyiv and Moscow to cease hostilities between May 9 and 11. At the end of this period, the Russian army fired nearly 200 long-range drones against the Ukrainian rear in the early hours of this Tuesday.
Both contenders respected the cessation of hostilities in long-distance attacks these three days, but the fighting continued on the front. The same thing happened in the two-day truce that Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced last April: long-range bombing did not occur, but fire did occur on the front and in the villages close to the battle line. .
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that his Armed Forces will respond by restarting attacks on Russian soil. “Russia has decided to break the partial ceasefire that had lasted several days,” Zelensky wrote on his social networks. “We already said that we would act with the same forcefulness in response to all Russian actions.”
The Ukrainian president revealed that Russia had also suspended attacks with its aviation on the front. Last morning, according to their figures, more than 30 attacks with aerial bombs were reported.
The end of the truce has been noted in six provinces of Ukraine, including the capital, kyiv. The region hardest hit by Russia has been Dnipropetrovsk, in the east of the country, where one person has died. The greatest damage, according to the Ukrainian authorities, has occurred in residential buildings and .
The ceasefire proposed by Trump was also intended to mark the date on which Russia commemorates the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Zelensky had threatened to fire drones at military units destined for the event. The Kremlin warned that its reaction, in that case, would be an unprecedented attack on the center of kyiv.
Russia is now restarting periodic bombing of Ukrainian cities with missiles and hundreds of drone bombs. Ukraine, for its part, is preparing, the main source of income for the invading State, also with hundreds of drones fired daily.
The truce achieved by Trump also included an exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war per side. , has not yet been able to be carried out because both parties are finalizing the identification of the people who will return to their homes.
