Ukraine: Russia Violated Own Easter Ceasefire Declaration 2,935 Times
Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky has said that Russian forces violated a declaration of an Easter Sunday ceasefire by Vladimir Putin 2,935 times as of 12AM Monday in Ukraine.
According to a report to him by Ukrainian military commander in chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi, “The highest number of shellings and assaults occurred in the Pokrovsk direction”, with a total of “96 Russian assaults, 1,882 instances of shelling on our positions, including 812 involving heavy weaponry, and over 950 instances of FPV drone use by Russian forces”.
“This day was not enough for Moscow to respond either to the proposal for a full 30-day ceasefire after Easter, or to the proposal to at least extend the ceasefire in the sky, refraining from missile and drone strikes on civilian infrastructure”, said Zelensky. “The nature of Ukraine’s actions will remain symmetrical: ceasefire will be met with ceasefire, and Russian strikes will be met with our own in defense. Actions always speak louder than words.”
Ukraine’s air force also said Monday that overnight Russian attacks saw a P-800 Onyx anti-ship cruise missile launched from occupied Crimea into Kherson Oblast, and two Kh-31P anti-radar missiles launched into Mykolaiv Oblast from the Black Sea. They claimed that 96 long range drones were detected, with 42 shot down and 46 decoy drones allowed to crash harmlessly.
Ukraine’s air force had reported no long range drone or missile attacks between Saturday night and sunrise on Sunday, with Zelensky offering earlier on Sunday to halt Ukrainian long range drone and missile attacks into Russia for at least 30 days with the possibility of an extension if Russia was willing to continue its own pause, saying that the lack of air raid alerts from Russian long range attacks was “a format of ceasefire that has been achieved and that is the easiest to extend”.