•Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin
Ukraine reported limited strikes on its northeastern region of Sumy but no missile or drone attacks this morning, as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for a three-day truce with Ukraine was supposed to take effect.
Putin unilaterally ordered the temporary truce to coincide with Moscow’s Victory Day parade tomorrow, a proposal Ukraine dismissed as theatrics, reports AFP.
“As of 08:00 am, no missile attacks or attack drones were recorded in Ukrainian airspace. However, during the night, the enemy intensified tactical aviation strikes using guided aerial bombs in the Sumy region,” the air force said, after reporting several launches in the morning.
A strike hit a residential area near Bilopillya, a village close to the border between Sumy and Russia’s Kursk region, the emergency services said.
Rescuers managed to free a woman trapped under the rubble, according to the statement from the emergency services.
The head of Ukraine’s disinformation countering centre, Andriy Kovalenko, claimed Russia was “violating the ceasefire by attacking the Sumy region.”
He also reported attacks on “the front line in the east and the Kharkiv region” in northeastern Ukraine — though the General Staff was yet to comment on this.
