The truce announced by Putin began to Victory Day. Russia and Ukraine accused each other of multiple shelling

From midnight on May 8, a truce announced by Vladimir Putin began unilaterally between Russia and Ukraine.

On April 28, Putin said that Russia will suspend all the fighting with Ukraine from midnight May 8 to midnight May 11 in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky rejected Putin’s proposal, insisting that the ceasefire should act for less than 30 days. The Kremlin has already abandoned this idea.

In the Sumy Regional Military Administration, they said that as a result of Russian shelling, a resident of the Nikolaev community died. According to the prosecutor's office, she died as a result of an air strike, which was applied at about 3:00.

In turn, the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, said that after Ukrainian shelling, a resident of the village of Glushkovo died today. In addition, in Russia after midnight, anxieties were announced due to possible Ukrainian attacks in the Kursk , Belgorod , Orenburg regions and Ryazan .

The Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces told Supilna that they received an order from the command to open only return fire on Russian positions from May 8 to 10 - it was these days that Vladimir Putin announced a truce.

The Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiga said that after the beginning of the ceasefire, the Russian military committed 586 attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation claims that Russian troops strictly comply with the ceasefire, while the Ukrainian army violated it 488 times.

Updated at 14:07 Moscow time. Added information about shelling and dead.