KYIV: Russia launched missiles and drones focusing on Ukraine early on Monday (Apr 21), waking up Kyiv and the japanese half of the nation, hours after the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin got here to an finish.
There have been no fast studies of accidents or main damages from the assaults, regional Ukrainian officers mentioned on social media.
Ukraine’s air power mentioned Russia launched 96 drones and three missiles in in a single day assaults focusing on Ukraine, inflicting harm within the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Cherkasy areas.
Air defence items shot down 42 Russian drones, and one other 47 drones had been redirected by digital warfare.
Each Kyiv and Moscow had accused each other of thousands of attacks that violated the truce that the Kremlin indicated on Sunday wouldn’t be prolonged.
Washington mentioned it will welcome an extension of the truce, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated a number of occasions Ukraine’s willingness to pause strikes for 30 days within the conflict.
However Putin, who launched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and who ordered on Saturday the halt in all navy exercise alongside the entrance line till midnight Moscow time on Sunday, didn’t give orders to increase it.
“There have been no different instructions,” Russia’s TASS state information company cited Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying when requested whether or not the ceasefire might be extended.
Zelenskyy mentioned early on Monday that his forces had been instructed to proceed to reflect the Russian military’s actions.
“The character of Ukraine’s actions will stay symmetrical: ceasefire shall be met with ceasefire, and Russian strikes shall be met with our personal in protection. Actions at all times converse louder than phrases,” he mentioned on social community X.
