Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of violating the 32-hour Orthodox Easter ceasefire. Russia’s Defence Ministry today stated that it recorded nearly two thousand ceasefire violations by Ukrainian forces within the first 16 hours of the truce.
The Ministry added that the settlements of Gai were targeted twice overnight, along with Otradnoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military reported that Russian forces had committed more than two thousand violations since the ceasefire began.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced the ceasefire for Orthodox Easter on Thursday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had expressed Kyiv’s willingness to observe the truce.
