Russia, Ukraine accuse each other of breaching Easter truce

AFP - Dawn - 20/04
Zelensky says Ukraine saw hundreds of attacks, drone launches; Russian defence ministry insists troops “strictly observed the ceasefire”.

Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said Russian forces were continuing their shelling and assaults along the front line despite Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing a surprise but brief Easter truce.

The 30-hour truce would be the most significant pause in the fighting throughout the three-year conflict.

But just hours after the order was meant to have come into effect, air-raid sirens sounded in Kyiv and several other Ukrainian regions, with Zelensky accusing Russia of having maintained its attacks.

“Across various frontline directions, there ...
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