Russia resumes fighting after ‘ceasefire’ Ukraine says Moscow breached nearly 3,000 times – Russia-Ukraine war live

Russian military confirms ‘Easter truce’ is over and fighting has begun again as Ukrainian says Moscow launched 96 drones and three missiles overnight

The airborne assault forces of the armed forces of Ukraine said in a Facebook post that its soldiers have helped capture nine Russian servicemen in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces staged a surprise incursion last year.

“Nine servicemen of the Russian army were taken by paratroopers and allied units in Kursk. The prisoners were provided with timely medical and psychological assistance,” the airborne assault forces wrote in the social media post, adding that the Russian soldiers had “surrendered to Ukrainian soldiers”.

According to sources cited by Bloomberg, the US may be willing to give Putin a strategic victory and to accept Russian control over the peninsula. In 2014, Russian special forces seized Crimea, which Putin annexed after a sham referendum.

US diplomatic recognition would violate the UN charter and the post-1945 consensus that countries cannot seize territory by force. Most states, including the UK, have refused to recognise Russia’s illegal takeover.