Putin violated his own Easter truce thousands of times, Zelenskyy says

Russian forces violated President Vladimir Putin’s self-imposed Easter ceasefire in his Ukraine war with numerous strikes and assaults, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.

“We can say that the Russian army is trying to create a general impression of a ceasefire, but in some places it is still trying to make individual attempts to advance and inflict losses on Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel.

The Kremlin on Saturday announced a unilateral ceasefire on the occasion of Easter until midnight Sunday. But Saturday night the Ukrainian army already reported continued Russian attacks with artillery and drones — in line with Moscow’s long history of violating ceasefires.