The Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenskihe has accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, from “Play with human lives” After registering in Ukraine anti -aircraft shortly after Moscow announced a high fire on the occasion of Orthodox Easter at 15.00 GMT.
“As for another attempted Putin to play with human lives, at this time Air attack alerts are spreading throughout Ukraine. At 17.15 (14.15 GMT) Russian attack drones have been detected in our heavens, “Zelenski published in his social network X (formerly Twitter).” Ukrainian anti -aircraft defense and aviation have already begun to work to protect us. The ‘shahed’ drones in our skies reveal the True attitude of Putin towards Easter and towards human life. “
Zelenski’s message took place after Putin announced on Saturday a high fire on the occasion of Orthodox Easter, which in principle would run from 18.00 local time (15.00 GMT) of this day until midnight between Sunday and Monday.
With the same skeptical tone of Zelenski, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrí Sibiga, who has assured that his country already has “a long history of statements” breached by Putin has been shown. “Now Putin has made statements about his alleged disposition to a high fire”, but, “unfortunately, we have a long history of statements that do not correspond to their actions“Sibiga written on her X account shortly before 15.00 GMT.
“We know that We can’t trust his words And we will look at the facts, not in words, “the minister has established before claiming the provisional fire as the best solution to the conflict as the one that was negotiated in March in Saudi Arabia with the mediation of the United States.” We want to see that Russian forces really cease fire in all directions. “
Zelenski proposes to extend the truce to 30 days
Hours after the first statement, the Ukrainian President has released another message on his X profile, this time to propose extend to 30 days the announced truce By Moscow. “If a complete truce is maintained, Ukraine proposes to expand it beyond Easter Day, on April 20.” As reported by the Ukrainian president, “this is what will reveal the true intentions of Russiabecause 30 hours are enough to give headlines, but not to create confidence in a genuine way. Thirty days would give peace a chance. “
At the time of making this counterproposal, Moscow had not made its own truce effective: “For now, according to the reports of the commander in chief (Oleksandr Sirski), the Russian assault operations continue in several sectors of the line of the Russian Front and Fire of Russian Artillery has not decreased.”
Soldiers exchange
Saturday’s day, among others, has also been marked by a Mass exchange of war prisoners Sponsored, as on previous occasions, by the United Arab Emirates. As reported by the Russian Defense Ministry, the exchange has allowed the return to its country of 246 Russian soldiers who had been arrested by the Ukrainians and 15 wounded prisoners who need “urgent” medical help.
With the exchange, Ukraine has achieved the return of 277 prisoners of war who were in Russian captivity, as announced by Zelenski, which has estimated in more than 4,500 the total number of military and civilians in Russian captivity that have returned to Ukrainian territory since the beginning of the war thanks to this type of exchanges.
