Air raid alerts in Ukraine after Putin’s Easter ‘ceasefire’ ends

Regions in eastern Ukraine were under air raid alerts starting minutes after midnight on Monday, with the alerts gradually extending west

Ukraine issued air raid alerts for Kyiv and the country's eastern half as blasts shook the city of Mykolaiv early on Monday, authorities said, hours after the one-day Easter ceasefire" declared by Vladimir Putin came to an end.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the Russian president's unilateral Easter ceasefire declaration as a fake PR" exercise and said Russian troops had continued their drone and artillery attacks across many parts of the frontline on Sunday.