The number of Russian attacks on Ukraine last night «clearly demonstrates that, on the Russian side, there was not even a symbolic attempt at a ceasefire on the front. As we have done in the last 24 hours, today too Ukraine will respond with the same coin.” So on X the Ukrainian president Volodymir Zelensky. «We will defend our positions and the lives of our people. Russia must end the war, and everyone will realize this when the first steps towards peace begin.”
But Moscow, on the other hand, also accused Kiev of “1,365 violations of the ceasefire” proclaimed by Russia since last midnight, including the launch of 390 drones and six missiles against Russian territory. «In these conditions – we read in a note from the Ministry of Defense posted on Telegram – the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation responded in a mirror-like manner to the violations of the ceasefire. They launched retaliatory attacks against the launch positions of multiple rocket launch systems, artillery and mortars. They hit command centers and drone launch points.”