April 13 (Reuters) – Two people were killed and one injured by Russian troops in Ukraine’s frontline eastern Donetsk region before the expiry of a ceasefire to mark Orthodox Easter nL1N40V01U, a local official said on Monday,
One person was killed in the city of Kramatorsk and one in Druzhkivka on Sunday, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said on the Telegram messaging app, without giving more details.
Both Russia and Ukraine have accused each other nL1N40V01U of breaching the 32-hour ceasefire from Saturday afternoon to midnight (2100 GMT) on Sunday.
Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, citing a spokesperson of the 14th Army Corps, said on Monday that during “the so-called ‘Easter ceasefire'” Russian servicemen also shot dead four Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Kharkiv region.
It did not give more details, adding that Russia was preparing a campaign to deny it.
There was no immediate comment from Russia and Reuters could not verify the information independently.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s military said on Monday it had compiled a total of 10,721 Russian violations over the course of the truce.
It said the violations included 1,567 artillery shelling incidents, 119 assault operations and 9,035 strikes by attack drones. It said no air strikes had been recorded.
The Russian defence ministry has said it recorded 1,971 ceasefire violations by Ukraine overnight into Sunday.
(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
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