Zelenskyy offers Russia to extend ban on long-range strikes: No air-raid warnings recorded on Easter
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:30:54 +0300
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered Russia to extend the ban on longrange strikes for 30 days, as no airraid warnings were recorded during the socalled Easter truce despite numerous violations by the Russian Federation on the line of contact.
Source Zelenskyy following the report by Oleksandr Syrskyi, CommanderinChief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Quote As of this hour, since the beginning of the day, the Russian army has violated Putins ceasefire more than two thousand times. There have already been 67 Russian assaults against our positions across various directions, with the highest number in the Pokrovsk direction.
There were a total of 1,355 cases of Russian shelling, 713 of which involved heavy weaponry.
The Russians also used FPVs 673 times.
In practice, across all main frontline directions, Russia has failed to uphold its own promise of ceasefire.
And almost an entire day wasnt enough for Russia to respond to our Ukrainian proposal for a full ceasefire starting now, from Easter, and lasting 30 days.
Details Meanwhile, Zelenskyy noted that no airraid warnings had been recorded in Ukraine on Sunday 20 April.
Quote Hence, this is a format of ceasefire that has been achieved and that is the easiest to extend.
Ukraine proposes to cease any strikes using longrange drones and missiles on civilian infrastructure for a period of at least 30 days, with the possibility of extension.
If Russia does not agree to such a step, it will be proof that it intends to continue doing only those things which destroy human lives and prolong the war.
Background On Saturday 19 April, Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced an Easter truce, which supposedly means a halt to all hostilities in Ukraine from the evening of 19 April until midnight on 20 April.
Meanwhile, Russias Ministry of Defence stated that Russian forces would uphold the truce only if Ukraine did the same.
Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine would mirror any Russian ceasefire.
He also offered to extend the truce beyond 20 April if a complete silence of arms truly prevails.
Ukrainian defenders on most fronts have not witnessed the socalled Easter truce promised by the Russians, according to data from DeepState, a Ukrainian group of military analysts.
Ukraines General Staff reported that as of 1600 on 20 April, despite Russias declared Easter truce, 45 combat clashes had already occurred along the front line, 20 of them on the Pokrovsk front.
The Kremlin had said that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has not ordered an extension of the socalled Easter truce, which the Russians did not observe anyway, after midnight on 20 April.
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