Ukraine war
Shortly after the fire break, the air alarm sounds
Updated on April 21, 2025 – 05:02 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The Easter ceasefire arranged by Russia was short-lived. Already at night the Ukrainian Air Force warned of hostile shelling.
Shortly after the end of the Easter fire break arranged by Moscow in the Ukraine War, there was again air-alarm in the night in large parts of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force warned, among other things, in the Sumy area close to the border and in Charkiw, Saporischschja, Donetsk and Dnipro, of a danger from enemy air strikes. There were reports on explosions in several places. At first nothing was known about damage or victims.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a 30-hour ceasefire on Saturday, which ended at midnight Moscow Zeit (11 p.m. CEST on Sunday).
Moscow did not comply with a claim by Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj to extend the fire break after Easter by 30 days. The Kremlin did not respond to another proposal for Selenskyjs, at least for 30 days of attacks with drones, marching air bodies and rockets on civilian objects.
After the Easter armrest ordered by Moscow, Selenskyj had accused the Russian armed forces almost 3,000 injuries to the fire break during the day. The information cannot be checked independently. Selenskyj had previously welcomed that at least there was no air alarm.
U.S. President Donald Trump, however, hopes for an agreement to terminate the fights in Ukraine in the coming days. “Hopefully Russia and Ukraine will conclude an agreement this week,” Trump wrote on Sunday in his online service Truth Social, without making any further information on possible progress in negotiations on the end of the Ukraine War. Both countries could then “do big business with the United States of America”.
It remained unclear what Trump’s new optimism was based on. On Friday he had threatened to exit the United States from the Ukraine negotiations. If Ukraine or Russia made the conversations very difficult, the United States would do without its participation, said Trump. He indicated a decision “in a very short time”.
Rubio had previously been dissatisfied with European participation in Paris after the first Ukraine talks. In the coming days, it would have to decide whether peace in Ukraine is “feasible”, he said. The United States does not have time and “other priorities”.
Trump initially claimed in the election campaign that he could end the Ukraine war within 24 hours. Later he named six months as a period of time.
On February 12, Trump had agreed an “immediate” start of talks after a phone call with the Russian head of state Vladimir Putin. Negotiations with representatives of Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia at the end of March did not make a breakthrough. Putin rejected a proposal for an unconditional ceasefire presented by the USA and Ukraine.
