The three-day ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump proposed — and that Russia and Ukraine both agreed to — expired at midnight on May 12.
The truce ran from May 9 through May 11. Both sides accused each other of violating it throughout all three days.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 10 that Russia had not launched any large-scale air strikes, but that Russian forces on the front line were not observing any quiet and were not even particularly trying to. Russian troops, he said, were continuing their assault activity in the directions that were key for them.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on the afternoon of May 11 that Ukrainian forces had struck Russian positions with drones and artillery fire. Russian troops, the ministry said, had responded in kind to Ukrainian actions.
Authorities in Russian and Ukrainian regions — including the Kharkiv, Kherson, Belgorod, and Kursk regions — reported deaths and casualties from drone strikes.
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on May 9 that there were no agreements to extend the ceasefire.
Donald Trump announced a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine on the evening of May 8, calling it his own proposal and thanking Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky for approving it. Moscow and Kyiv later confirmed that both presidents had agreed. Trump said the ceasefire would include a halt to all hostilities as well as an exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war from each country. The prisoner exchange he described did not take place.
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