Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin are each accusing the other of breaking a supposed Easter ceasefire.
Despite the Russian president’s declaration of a truce on Saturday, set to be in place until midnight on Sunday, the Ukrainian president said in a post on X on Easter morning: “Between 6pm yesterday and midnight today, there were 387 instances of shelling and 19 assaults by Russian forces. Drones were used by Russians 290 times.”
Russia’s defence ministry then claimed that Ukraine had broken the ceasefire more than a thousand times, inflicting damages to infrastructure and causing civilian deaths.
Mr Zelensky later accused Russia of stepping up its attacks despite the ceasefire, proving either that Mr Putin “does not have full control over his army” or that the truce is merely a PR exercise.
The UK has urged Russia to commit to a full ceasefire, as Ukraine has done.
“Now is the moment for Putin to show he is serious about peace by ending his horrible invasion,” the British foreign ministry said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has brought home hundreds of its soldiers in an exchange of prisoners of war with Russia.
