16 Cameroonians Reported Dead Fighting For Russia In Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\nIn Russia\u2019s Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, Governor Alexander Khinshtein also accused Kyiv of breaking the truce by attacking a gas station in the town of Lgov with a drone, injuring three people, including a baby.<\/p>\n
In his evening address on Saturday, Zelensky called for a longer ceasefire.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have put this proposal to Russia, and if Russia again chooses war instead of peace, this will once again demonstrate to the world and to the United States who really wants what.\u201d<\/p>\n
Residents of Kharkiv, a city near the Russian border and targeted by daily attacks, had been wary of the truce.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not for long, a day and a half, so maybe it will hold,\u201d hoped Oleg Polyskin, 65.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut even if you\u2019re going to church, there is no 100 per cent guarantee that everything will be peaceful\u2026 you shouldn\u2019t trust Putin and his government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be nice if nothing happened tonight and it was quiet, without air-raid alerts,\u201d said 16-year-old Sofiia Liapina.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we can\u2019t know \u2014 because our neighbours can\u2019t be trusted,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Last-Minute Strikes<\/h2>\n
Hours before the truce was due to start, Russia launched at least 160 drones at Ukraine, killing four people in the country\u2019s east and south and wounding dozens of others, Ukrainian authorities said.<\/p>\n
A wave of Ukrainian drones, meanwhile, sparked a fire at an oil depot and damaged apartment buildings in Russia\u2019s southern Krasnodar region, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The two sides held a ceasefire for Orthodox Easter last year, but both accused the other of hundreds of violations.<\/p>\n
Despite tensions over the truce, the warring sides exchanged 175 prisoners of war each on Saturday, according to officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still haven\u2019t really realised that I\u2019m finally here \u2014 that now I can make my dreams reality, that I am finally free,\u201d said Maksym, a Ukrainian soldier freed after four years as a prisoner.<\/p>\n
Fourteen civilians were also exchanged: seven on each side.<\/p>\n
Stalled Diplomacy<\/h2>\n
US-led talks aimed at ending the four-year conflict have stalled in recent weeks because of the war in the Middle East. Even before the Iran war, progress towards a peace deal in Ukraine had been slow due to differences over the issue of territory.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has proposed freezing the conflict along the current front lines. But Russia has rejected this, saying it wants Ukraine to give up all the territory in the Donetsk region that it currently controls \u2014 a demand Kyiv says is unacceptable.<\/p>\n
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied Russia had discussed the ceasefire with Ukraine or the United States in advance and said it was not linked to negotiations to end the war.<\/p>\n
The war has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and forced millions to flee their homes, making it Europe\u2019s deadliest conflict since World War II. Russia has made small territorial gains at a high cost.<\/p>\n
Kyiv recently managed to push back in the southeast, and Russian advances have been slowing since late 2025, according to the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Moscow occupies just over 19 per cent of Ukraine, most of which was seized during the first weeks of the conflict.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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