The Ukrainian President, Volodímir Zelenskyhe denounced this Sunday that Russia has raped more than two thousand times The 30 -hour truce declared by the Kremlin leader, Vladimir Putinthis Saturday afternoon.
“In practice, in all the main areas of the front, Russia has not fulfilled his promise of truce,” wrote the Ukrainian president, who also reproached Moscow that he has not responded to the Ukrainian offer to extend the high Easter fire at 30 days.
Zelensky made these statements shortly after the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, will declare to the Russian agency TASS that Moscow has no plans to extend the truce.
According to the Ukrainian president, the Russian forces have launched since the theory entered the truce in force 67 attacks Against Ukrainian positions in several segments of the front, most of them in the Pokrovsk area of the eastern region of Donetsk.
In the Toretsk area, also in Donetsk, several Ukrainian soldiers died during this Easter Sunday when falling into a Russian ambush, as Zelensky had affirmed hours before, which did not specify the number of casualties.
The Ukrainian president also reported, citing army information, of more than 1,300 situations in which the Russian artillery opened fire against Ukrainian and 673 positions in which the Russians used remote view drones.
The high fire expires at midnight (2100 GMT) this Sunday.
Putin announced surprisingly on Saturday a “humanitarian truce” of 30 hours for Easter, a cessation of the fighting that would have been the most significant in more than three years of war.
Putin’s order to suspend the fighting on Easter weekend came after months of failed attempts from the US president, Donald Trumpof mediating a truce between Moscow and kyiv.
Washington threatened Friday with retiring from conversations if there are no advances to end the conflict, which began in February 2022 with the invasion released by Russia against Ukraine. The head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, said that Washington It will take a step to the side if the peace between Moscow and kyiv was not “feasible.”
However, Trump said he observes “Enthusiasm” for peace Both Russia and Ukraine and that he is confident of “getting” negotiations to continue advancing towards an arrangement.
Zelensky, meanwhile, responded on Saturday in X that “if Russia is suddenly willing to really compromise (…) Ukraine will act accordingly, reflecting Russia’s actions. ”
This Sunday, in kyiv, many Ukrainian citizens had already expressed in advance their clear doubts that Russia respect the truce announced by Putin. “They have already breached their promise. Unfortunately, today we cannot trust Russia,” he told the agency AFP Olga Grachovaa 38 -year -old merchant.
Nataliaa 41 -year -old doctor, on the other hand, regretted that Ukraine offers are not corresponded: “No one responds.”
(With information from EFE and AFP)
