Russia on Sunday accused Kiev of breaking a US-brokered ceasefire, while Ukrainian officials said a Russian attack killed one person and wounded several others. Drone and artillery strikes In the last 24 hours.
Two people were wounded by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the region’s Moscow-based leader Vladimir Saldo said.
Separately, Russia’s Defense Ministry accused Kiev of more than 1,000 ceasefire violations, state media reported Sunday, citing a daily briefing. The ministry said Ukrainian forces attacked civilian targets in several Russian regions and launched attacks on Russian military targets on the front line.
Russia’s military “reacted sternly” to the ceasefire violations, the ministry said.
Ukrainian officials said Russia had launched the strikes, though they stopped short of accusing Moscow of violating a US-brokered ceasefire that came into force on Saturday.
Ivan Fedorov, the head of Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, said one person had been killed and three others wounded in artillery and drone strikes over the past 24 hours.
Oleksandr Prokudin, the premier of Kherson, Ukraine, said seven people were injured in the same period.
Kharkiv regional administration head Oleh Sinylyubov said late Saturday that a Russian drone strike damaged a nine-story apartment block in an industrial district of Ukraine’s second-largest city, injuring five people.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Russia and Ukraine have bowed to his request for a ceasefire that will last from Saturday to Monday victory DayRussian celebration marking the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Trump said there would also be a prisoner exchange, declaring that a pause in the fighting could be “the beginning of the end” of the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian officials “fear that drones may fly over Red Square”. 9th May Parade In Moscow, Red Square was temporarily declared off-limits over Ukrainian attacks to allow a Russian parade to proceed following Trump’s statement. The Kremlin dismissed the comments as a “stupid joke.”
Yuri Ushakov, an aide to the Russian president, said Sunday he expected U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — who has played a leading role in negotiations to end the war — to visit Moscow “soon.”
However, he stressed that Moscow would not back down from its demand that Kiev’s troops withdraw from Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region. “Until (Ukraine) takes this step, we can have many more rounds, dozens of rounds (of talks), but we will be stuck in one place,” state news agency Tass quoted Ushakov as saying.
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