Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Kyiv had recorded 2,935 violations of the “Easter ceasefire” declared by Russia. Writing on Telegram, he cited a report from Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi.
“The total number of times the Russian army violated its own ceasefire promise over the past 24 hours is 2,935,” Zelensky wrote.
According to him, Russia carried out 96 assault operations in a single day, along with 1,883 attacks on Ukrainian positions — 812 of them involving heavy weapons. He also said that Russian forces used FPV drones more than 950 times.
Zelensky added that Moscow had not responded to Ukraine’s proposal for a full 30-day ceasefire following Easter, nor to an appeal to “at least maintain silence in the skies, refrain from striking civilian infrastructure with missiles and drones.”
He stated that Ukraine’s response would remain “mirrored”: “We will answer silence with silence. And we will respond to Russian strikes with strikes of our own.”
The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, accused Ukraine of violating the ceasefire 4,900 times over the Easter period.
According to the ministry, Ukrainian forces launched six attempted attacks near the towns of Sukha Balka, Bohatyr, Pershotravneve, Bilohorivka, and Tarasivka in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic,” as well as near Oleshnya in Russia’s Kursk region. It also reported that Ukraine launched 90 drones, including eight that operated “outside the special military operation zone.”
The ministry claimed that during the ceasefire, Ukrainian troops carried out 1,404 artillery, rocket, and mortar attacks, along with 3,316 drone strikes on Russian positions.
It added that Russian forces had “strictly observed the ceasefire and remained in previously held positions,” while noting that Ukrainian combat activity had decreased during daylight hours over the Easter period.
“With the ceasefire now over, the Russian Armed Forces have resumed their special military operation,” the ministry said.
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