Russian attacks during Easter ceasefire declared by Putin kill three in Ukraine

Belfast Telegraph - 21/04
Russian attacks during the 30-hour Easter ceasefire unilaterally declared by President Vladimir Putin over the weekend killed three people in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, the local governor said on Monday.

Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram that the casualties occurred over the last 24 hours, adding that three other people were injured.

Overall, Russia violated the ceasefire more than 2,900 times, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Telegram statement in the early hours on Monday.

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Mr Zelensky said Russian forces carried out 96 assault operations along the front line, shelled Ukrainian positions more than 1,800 times, and used hundreds of drones during the course of the ceasefire.

“The nature of Ukrainian actions will continue to be mirror-like: we will respond to silence with silence, and our blows will be a defence agains...
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