Kiev has committed a total of 8,970 violations since midnight Friday, according to the Russian MOD<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian military has violated the Victory Day ceasefire on 8,970 occasions since it took effect at midnight on Friday, including drone and artillery strikes, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
\nMoscow said on Friday that it had ordered all of its troops along the Ukraine front line to halt combat operations and stay at their positions.
\nIn a statement on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed that its forces were continuing to abide by the ceasefire. By contrast, the Ukrainian military had conducted \u201cstrikes on our forces\u2019 positions involving unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery,\u201d military officials in Moscow reported. On top of that, a number of Russian regions, including Crimea, Bryansk Region, Belgorod Region, Kursk Region, and Moscow Region, have come under Ukrainian attacks.
\nAccording to the ministry, of the 8,970 ceasefire violations on Kiev\u2019s part, 1,173 attacks were conducted by Ukrainian artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, mortars and tanks. The Russian military has additionally recorded a total of 7,151 enemy drone strikes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cUkrainian forces have carried out twelve attacks on Russian positions,\u201d according to the statement.
\nRussian troops have responded in kind, launching retaliatory strikes against Ukrainian firing positions, command posts, and UAV launch sites, the Defense Ministry stated.
\nEarlier this week, the MOD announced a unilateral two-day ceasefire on May 8-9 to mark the 81st anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe.
\nOn Friday, US President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that he had directly asked Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky to cease hostilities for three days, May 9-11, with both agreeing to the proposal. Trump added that Moscow and Kiev would swap 1,000 POWs each during the period.
\n\u201cHopefully, it is the beginning of the end of a very long, deadly, and hard fought War,\u201d the US president wrote, expressing hope for a \u201cbig extension.\u201d
\nPutin\u2019s aide Yury Ushakov later confirmed that Moscow agreed to extend the ceasefire it had originally announced for May 8-9 for the period mentioned by Trump, as well as to a major prisoner exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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