Zelenskyy Says Russia Breached Three-Day Ceasefire — Ukraine News

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russia was conducting assault operations on the Ukrainian frontline despite a three-day ceasefire, making ukraine news on the truce’s first full day about whether the pause was being observed at all. Zelenskyy said the Russian army was not complying with the ceasefire and was not even really trying to.

Zelenskyy on the frontline

In his evening address on Sunday, Zelenskyy said, “The Russians are continuing assault activity in sectors key for them” and, “On the frontline, the Russian army is not complying with the ceasefire and is not even really trying to.” Those remarks pushed the immediate dispute back onto the frontline itself rather than the terms of the Friday announcement.

Donald Trump announced the three-day ceasefire on Friday as part of a broader US-led push for peace. The pause came on the eve of the Moscow parade, and the timing gave the arrangement a narrow window to show whether Russia and Ukraine would hold fire long enough for any further diplomatic step.

Ukraine and Russia trade claims

Ukrainian officials said on Sunday there had been Russian drone strikes and nearly 150 battlefield clashes over the past 24 hours, while Russia’s defence ministry said it had shot down 57 Ukrainian drones. The figures show a ceasefire under strain from the first day, with each side describing military activity that fits its own account of who broke the truce first.

One person was killed in Ukraine, and three people were killed in Ukraine. Those deaths sit inside the same 24-hour period in which the ceasefire was supposed to reduce fighting, leaving the battlefield counts and casualty figures tied directly to the dispute over whether the pause existed in practice.

Kremlin on peace talks

Dmitry Peskov said this weekend, “It is clear that the American side is in a hurry, but the issue of a Ukrainian settlement is too complex, and reaching a peace agreement is a very long road with many complicated details.” Vladimir Putin also said, “I think that the matter is coming to an end,” a line that placed the Kremlin’s public messaging alongside the new truce even as fighting claims continued.

Yuri Ushakov said negotiations would probably resume, but it was unclear when, and Ukraine rejected the Kremlin condition that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the Donetsk region before new trilateral talks. The ceasefire therefore sits inside a broader peace process that has not yet produced the next accepted format for talks, and the immediate test is whether the three-day pause can survive the rest of Sunday without another round of competing claims.