Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of breaching Easter truce

Kramatorsk, Ukraine: Russia and Ukraine on Sunday accused each other of violating an Easter truce announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Th...

Kramatorsk, Ukraine: Russia and Ukraine on Sunday accused each other of violating an Easter truce announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The 30-hour truce had been meant to start Saturday to mark the religious holiday, but Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of keeping up its attacks on the front line.

While Ukrainian troops told AFP that fighting had eased, Zelensky said Russian forces staged hundreds of shelling and drone assaults along the front line despite the surprise truce.

"The Ukrainian army is acting and will continue to act in an absolutely mirror image" of Russia," he warned.

Zelensky also renewed a proposal for a 30-day truce.