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Russian forces violated the Easter ceasefire proposed by Moscow more than 2,200 times over the past 24 hours, including attacks on medics in the Sumy region and a residential building in Druzhkivka, according to numerous Ukrainian officials’ reports on April 12.
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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that 120 combat engagements took place over the previous day. By 7 a.m. (GMT+2) on April 12, the military had recorded 2,299 ceasefire violations, including 28 assault actions, 479 attacks, 747 strikes by Lancet and Molniya loitering munitions, and 1,045 FPV drone strikes.
The General Staff noted that there were no missile strikes, guided aerial bombs, or Shahed-type drones during the ceasefire window itself.
The military also reported that Russian forces carried out 58 airstrikes over the same 24-hour period, dropping 184 guided aerial bombs and launching 8,458 suicide drones, while carrying out 2,947 attacks on settlements and Ukrainian positions, including 123 from multiple launch rocket systems.
Airstrikes were recorded in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions.
In the Sumy region, Russian forces attacked an ambulance with a drone overnight in the Hlukhiv community despite the declared Easter truce, according to Sumy regional governor Oleh Hryhorov.
Three medics were injured in the attack and received prompt medical assistance.
Russian forces also struck Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region with an FPV drone, causing a large fire in a five-story residential building, the State Emergency Service reported.
The fire spread across balconies from the third to fifth floors and into two apartments, covering 130 square meters. Emergency crews worked under the threat of a repeat strike and extinguished the blaze. No deaths or injuries were reported.
Russia’s attacks cast immediate doubt on the Easter truce announced by the Kremlin for April 11–12. Ukraine had stated it would act symmetrically and signaled it was ready to support a longer ceasefire beyond the holiday if Moscow genuinely halted strikes in the air, on land, and at sea
On April 11, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered to extend the Easter truce beyond the holiday if Russia halted attacks in the air, on land, and at sea.
The proposal followed Ukraine’s earlier signal that a broader pause could stay in effect if Moscow observed it across all domains.
Zelenskyy’s position framed the possible extension as conditional rather than open-ended, tying any continuation directly to a halt in Russian assaults.
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