Russia launched air attacks against Ukraine on Monday, April 21, in an abrupt final of a fragile Easter truce, while President Vladimir Putin raised questions about kyiv’s sacrifice of a stop of a monher long to tie the civil objectives. The new attacks show doubts about the hopes of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, of a high the widest fire between the two parties, hours after he said that an “agreement” could be reached this week.
“Military action has resumed,” Putin told state television, after Ukrainian officials reported a wave of drone strikes and artillery during the night after the partial truce observed of 30 hours. Each side had accused the other of thousands of rapes of Alto El Fuego, which Putin ordered Saturday. “But in general, there was a fall in that activity,” Putin said, after listing alleged Ukrainian violations. “We appreciate this and we are ready to look to the future.”
President Volodymyr Zensky had welcomed the fire, while warned that the military of Ukraine responds “symmetrically” to what the Russian forces did. kyiv officials have accused Putin of looking for a propaganda victory by proposing the truce, which comes in his hands after Trump threatened to move away from the efforts to ensure peace in the three -year war if he does not see progress. Welcome to a day without alerts of air attacks throughout the country, Zensky proposes on Sunday a follow -up that “would stop attacks with drones and long -range missiles in civil infrastructure for a period of at least 30 days.”
‘We need to solve this’
Putin said Russia “would analyze” the idea, but questioned how it would work while accusing Ukraine of using civil buildings as restaurants and universities for military purposes. In strange comments on a specific Russian strike, he said that Ukraine had been using a University building in Sumy for a ceremony for the delivery of military awards on April 13, when two Russian ballistic missiles arrived in the city center, killing at least 35 people.
“Is it a civil installation or not? But the regime is using civil thesis facilities,” Putin said. “We have to solve this,” he added, saying that he did not exclude bilateral conversations with Ukraine on the subject. “We will analyze everything and make the corresponding decisions.”
On Monday night, Zensky asked Russia to give a “clear response” to the proposal of Alto El Fuego. “Ukraine maintains his proposal not to hit at least the civil infrastructure. And we expect a clear response from Moscow. We are ready for any conversation about how to guarantee this,” he said. A Ukrainian delegation will be presented in London on Wednesday by the conversations of Alto El Fuego with Great Britain, France and the United States, he said, in X. “We are ready in the most constructive way possible,” he added.
Ukrainian officials previously reported in the regions of drones and missiles in the Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions. The Ukraine Air Force said it had 42 Russian attack drones in a night attack hours after the end of the Easter truce, when both parties reported a fall in the fight.
‘The enemy continues to attack’
Ukrainian military personnel in East Ukraine told AFP that he welcomed the respite of the letter, but that they did not have the hope of a long -term truce. Viktor Danylchuk, a military instructor, said he welcomed that “he could timet his family in peace.” But he thought that more agreements were “impossible” because “the enemy continues to attack.”
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The Putin Fire Declaration occurred after Trump said Friday that he would end the United States efforts to detain the president of the United States, Esperanza said Sunday that the two parties could quickly reach an agreement, he thought he did not explain.
“Hopefully Russia and Ukraine reach an agreement this week,” he said on his real social platform. Last month, Trump presented a proposal for a high and unconditional fire, which Ukraine accepted but that Putin rejected. When asked about Trump’s comments on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow “expects the United States efforts to generate results,” but refused to comment on the negotiation timeline.
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