The ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine has been shattered once again with both sides accusing each other of violations.
Ukraine and Russia today traded accusations of violations of a three-day ceasefire negotiated by United States and announced by the US president, Donald Trump.
“Since the beginning of the day, the number of attacks carried out by the aggressor reached 51,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. The Ukrainian Air Force cited 44 unmanned aerial vehicles launched by Russia since yesterday, Friday, at 18:00 (local time and Greek time). That is the lowest number in months.
For its part, Russia’s Defense Ministry said that “despite the declaration of a ceasefire, Ukrainian armed groups launched attacks with the help of drones and artillery against the positions of our troops,” without giving an exact number.
Meanwhile, casualty reports were received from both sides. Drones fired from Russia killed two civilians and wounded three in the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions of central Ukraine, according to local authorities.
In the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, three people were wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack, according to regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
After two attempts at a ceasefire, Ukrainian and then Russian, that were not respected this week, the US president announced last Friday night a three-day ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia that began today.
Soon after Donald Trump‘s message was made public, Kiev and Moscow confirmed they had accepted the ceasefire and the prisoner swap.
“Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of a very long war,” US President Donald Trump wrote yesterday on his platform, Truth Social, specifying that the ceasefire would be accompanied by a “prisoner exchange, 1.000 prisoners from each country.”
Of course, Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov, quoted by Russian news agencies, said today, however, that there is no agreement to extend this ceasefire.
