Ukraine under air raid alerts hours after one-day Russia ceasefire ends

Ukraine has issued air raid alerts for Kyiv and the country’s eastern half as blasts shook the city of Mykolaiv early on Monday a few hours after the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin came to an end.

DAILY POST reports that both Kyiv and Moscow had accused each other of thousands of attacks that violated the truce that the Kremlin indicated on Sunday would not be extended.

Washington said it would welcome an extension of the truce, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated several times Ukraine’s willingness to pause strikes for 30 days in the war.

However, Putin, who ordered on Saturday the halt in all military activity along the front line until midnight Moscow time (2100 GMT) on ...
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