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War
Thousand one hundred and fifty second day. Zelensky claims that the truce announced by Putin is not respected. The Russian Ministry of Defense accuses the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air. In our daily materials, we publish your letters, because we are sure: we must continue to talk about the war. What feelings do you experience because of the ongoing war? How does it affect you personally right now? How has your attitude to what is happening, towards Russia, Ukraine, to the world changed over these three years of the war? Look for a feedback form at the end of this article. A review of the previous day can be read here .
Russia
The Russian side brought the first charges of violating the Easter ceasefire announced by her on April 19 by noon. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the Armed Forces made attempts at attacks in the areas of the Sukhoi Balka and the hero in the Donetsk region. In addition, according to the Russian military department, the Ukrainian military fired at the positions of the RF Armed Forces 444 times and inflicted 900 strokes with drones, as a result of which “there are dead and wounded among the civilians”.
At the same time, all groups of Russian troops “in the zone of Svo”, according to the Ministry of Defense, from 18:00 on April 19 “strictly observed the ceasefire” and “remained on previously occupied lines and positions”.
At about 23 hours on April 19, the Governor of the Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo also accused of striking the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the region was only partially occupied by Russia). According to him, from 18:00 (that is, from the beginning of the action of the armistice announced by Putin), the attacks of drones in Aleshki, a naked pier and Kakhovka were recorded. “At the same time, it is important to say directly: in a number of sites - silence, shelling is not carried out,” said Saldo.
In addition, on the morning of April 20, TASS, citing operational services, announced strikes by Donetsk, which sounded at least three explosions.
Ukraine
Vladimir Zelensky, in response to Putin, wrote a truce that Russia is really “suddenly ready” for the format of complete and unconditional silence, Ukraine will act mirror - “silence in response to silence, blows in defense from blows”. In addition, he proposed, if complete silence is really established, extend it for another 30 days. “This will show the true intentions of Russia, because 30 hours are enough for headlines, but not for real measures to strengthen trust,” Zelensky added.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian source of BBC, on the evening of April 19, a few minutes after the start of the action of Easter ceasefire announced by Putin, received an order to cease fire on Russian positions and document violations-and if necessary to open fire (the receipt of such an order is confirmed by the CNN source).
Over the next hours, Zelensky brought three reports of the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Alexander Syrsky, indicating violations - as of 22:00 , as well as at 6:00 and at 12:00 April 20. According to the Ukrainian president, Russian troops continued shelling, the use of drones and conducting hostilities, and Putin’s Easter statements did not spread at all in the Kursk and Belgorod regions. So, only from 18:00 on April 19 to midnight 387 shelling and 19 assault actions of the Russian army was recorded, and drones were used 290 times, Zelensky claims. From midnight until 12:00, the Russian army has already taken 26 assault actions, he later said.
“We record each violation by Russia of their own promise of complete silence for Easter and are ready to provide partners with relevant information. In fact, either Putin does not fully control his army, or the situation proves that in Russia they do not have a goal of real movement to end the war and they need only a profitable PR in the media. It’s good that at least there were no aircraft, ”Zelensky wrote.
World
Analysts interviewed by The Wall Street Journal say that the proposal for short -term ceasefire became a “easy diplomatic victory” for Putin and consider it an attempt to prevent the American side to get out of negotiations. “If this is just for a very short period of time, then this does not bear any risk, but plays him [Putin] in the hands of a person who sincerely wishes the world,” said Tatyana Stanovaya, senior researcher at the Carnegie Berlin Center for Russia and Eurasia.
Russia announced a truce “in the modestly prepared special operation in the modality Kremlin,” said Alexander Baunov, senior researcher at the Carnegie Berlin Center for the Study of Russia and Eurasia. The idea of this truce was not expressed in any of Putin’s public speeches, and “it should have become one -way - putting Russia in the most peaceful side of the war,” he writes.
Baunov believes that after the United States threats to leave the negotiation process, Putin “obviously has not yet decided - to be left without Trump or to continue attempts to use it in his own interests,” and the truce gives him the opportunity to “postpone the solution to the issue, stop the anger or disappointment of Trump”.
In Europe, Putin’s statement about Easter truce reacted “with caution,” writes Reuters. “First we need to see the actual termination of [Russian] aggression and clear actions for a long -term ceasefire,” said the representative of the European Commission Anita Hipper, adding that Russia can stop the war at any time if he “really wants”.
War through the eyes of readers "Medusa"
Alexander (Kharkov). I look at the prospects of the world optimistic, because I just have no other choice. There is nothing rational in this, but I understand that I will lose my mind without this naive hope. But there is a feeling that there are many people like me - and at many levels. And perhaps it will work as a self -retentioning. The idea of the world is walking in the heads, and it has already been hooked on it like a drug, and no matter how anyone pulled, no matter how stubborn, it is unlikely to cease to be a theme. Just because everyone is already chewing this chewing gum, and I like the taste, no one will say tomorrow “what did it come of the world, we are at war for another 3.5 years, guys.” What will the world be, and how long will it last? Here our naivety looks bad - there is really nothing to answer [...].
If I were bolder, I would probably be capable of some stoic attitude to this: that you just need to fight and die on some day, and even if so, because it will be honest and right. But I don’t have enough spirit for this-and certainly there is not enough arrogance to believe that someone should do this for me. Therefore, I am for a bad world. And if you have to make concessions, then the devil with him. Our authorities and diplomats need to do everything now so that this bad world is as much bad as possible. But if, as a result of this world, we are waiting for the loss of sovereignty, and the FSB will walk around our houses, sort people and take on black cars at one end of those who have discovered something bad about Putin in the telegram-then ... Then the supporters of the war are right to the last: it is still better to die on this terrible front than in the basements of the NKVD. I just don't like the choice between death and death, so I continue to be naive and optimistic.
As for feelings and emotions, they died out. I felt something before: I had emotional swing, there was depression, there were fears and anxiety. Now everything is muffled. My heart is knocking when I hear the jean of the drone engine, and sometimes it is difficult to fall asleep after that, but there is no longer such to cover for a month.
It is a pity for the years and the years ... After all, we, Ukrainians, have been taken away for so many years. [For a long time] there were still many corrupt officials/strong business executives and fans of the scoop, but nevertheless, since 2014, we finally decided what we wanted - and we wanted to shake off all this rubbish. And we were moving in this direction. Slowly, crawling, two steps forward - one back, but we moved. [...] We were like Lithuania or Poland in the 1990s: at the very beginning of the path, a complete mess, but there was a goal and confident movement. And this was felt, in the economy, in the mood, in the air. [...] And then this grandfather read the musty conspiracyology from the Runet forums of the zero (probably presented in the form of printouts in red daddy) and decided to attack us. And again everything is again. Again years. This is really a shame. After all, we just got out of the pit. People shone in 2019, even in the covid 2021. It was only good ahead. I remember the smell of air in Kharkov. He is groaned with idleness and freedom. People danced on the streets and were full of plans and hopes.