Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian forces recorded 2,935 violations of Russia’s commitment to a ceasefire during the Easter holiday.
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In a post on Telegram, Zelensky stated:
"The nature of Ukrainian actions will remain the same — we will respond to silence with silence, and our strikes will be in defense against Russian attacks."
On the other hand, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Easter truce with Ukraine would expire tonight, and that no orders had been issued by President Vladimir Putin to extend it.
The ceasefire, initially announced by Putin during a meeting with Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov last Saturday, was set to last 30 hours, from 6:00 p.m. Moscow time on April 19 to 9:00 p.m. on April 21, 2025.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also weighed in, responding to the U.S. State Department’s call for an extension of the truce. She claimed that Ukraine did not honor the ceasefire declared by Putin.
Zakharova emphasized that Ukraine’s actions were not isolated incidents, but part of a "systematic pattern." She accused Ukrainian forces of deliberately targeting civilian energy infrastructure, even during periods when strikes on such facilities had been suspended — a move that, according to her, had been agreed upon by Zelensky himself.
