“Potential for Russia’s manipulation. “Easter truce” proved that any silence regime will not work without clear conditions and monitoring-ISW April 21, 08:09 Share: A serviceman Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces) is hastily declared by Russia. The Easter Armistice emphasized the need”, – WRITE ON: UA.news
A serviceman of the 24th Mechanized Brigade named after King Daniel of the Armed Forces in Donetsk, March 2025 (photo: Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separeate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forin.
Hastily declared by Russia. The Easter Armistice emphasized the need for the text of any ceasefire or peace agreement to be publicly available, pre-formally agreed by all parties, and would include reliable monitoring mechanisms.
This is emphasized in their report by analysts of the Institute of War Study (Isw) after the term of this term that has fallen by Russia “truce”.
After the so -called “Easter Truce”. The Russian Federation attacked Shahmed and rockets, the explosions heard in Nikolaev, Kherson, Cherkasy, in Kyiv region worked air defense.
Isw experts have given a map with NASA Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS), which certify the thermal anomalies along the front line on April 20. These cells may indicate military activity at a time when silence should be dominated at the front. Although ISW stresses that cannot independently check specific violations “truce ”made by Russian or Ukrainian sources.
At the same time, the ISW recalled the statement of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, according to which as of 20:00 on April 20, the Russian forces carried out land storms, drones from drones and artillery on the Ukrainian forces on “all the main directions of the front”-in violation of the 30-hour violation “a truce ”, which Vladimir Putin has declared unilaterally. Zelensky also stated on April 20 that Russian troops were attacked in Siversky, Toretsky and Zaporizhzhya, and most intensively conducted offensive actions in the Pokrovsky direction. The President of Ukraine also emphasized that an effective ceasefire agreement should provide mechanisms for monitoring potential violations and that Ukrainian forces will respond to Russian attacks “symmetrically”.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia on April 20 stated that Russian troops allegedly “steadily “were observed “truce”. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also claimed that these Ukrainian forces were struck from drones and artillery in Russian positions and settlements in the territory of Ukraine occupied by Russia.
According to ISW observations, Ukrainian and Russian sources noted that the fighting had subsided, but did not completely stop in some areas, including Kupyansky, Pokrovsky and Toretsky, and temporarily stopped in some other areas from 18:00 on April 19 – however, since then they recovered with a variable and intensity.
ISW analysts too Ukraine emphasized the initiative of Ukraine to suspend long -range strikes on civil infrastructure for 30 days. Zelensky emphasized that in the period 19-20, April 19-20 in Ukraine did not sound air anxiety and “is the format of silence, which is achieved and which is easiest to continue.” Earlier, Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of breaking the temporary stops on energy infrastructure, but Putin and other high-ranking Russian officials have repeatedly rejected the joint proposal of the United States and Ukraine on the complete 30-day ceasefire.
Any temporary agreement on the termination of strokes on civil infrastructure-and especially the general agreement on a complete ceasefire-will require reliable monitoring mechanisms, public and official conditions and clearly defined time frames, the ISW emphasizes. After all, the Kremlin can continue to use any fuzzy ceasefire on the ceasefire to conceal Russia’s refusal to proposals from the US and Ukraine regarding the silence regime and accuse Ukraine of its violation.