Zelenskyy: Russia Ignoring Truce, Trump Ceasefire
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- Zelenskyy said Russia was not observing the U.S.-brokered truce and that Ukraine had refrained from long-range retaliatory attacks despite ongoing artillery and drone strikes.
- Russia’s defense ministry claimed Ukrainian forces carried out more than 1,000 ceasefire violations, hitting civilian targets in Russian regions and military positions on the front line.
- President Trump announced the truce would run Saturday through Monday to mark Russia’s Victory Day, promising a prisoner exchange and calling it “the beginning of the end” of the war.
- Yuri Ushakov said he expects U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel to Moscow soon, but reiterated that Moscow will not lift its demand for Ukrainian troops to withdraw from the Donbas.
- Local officials reported casualties: one person killed and three wounded by Russian artillery in Zaporizhzhia, and 16 wounded elsewhere in Ukraine; two injured by Ukrainian shelling in Russian‑occupied Kherson.
Why it matters: Ukraine’s civilians bear fresh casualties as Russian attacks persist, undermining the U.S.‑promised truce; the fragile ceasefire gives Washington a bargaining chip for prisoner swaps but leaves Moscow’s Donbas demand unchanged.
