US Warns of Main Russian Assault Amid Putin’s Victory Day Truce

[ad_1] Russia might launch a big assault on Ukraine in the course of the interval of a ceasefire unilaterally declared by Vladimir Putin, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv has mentioned.

Ukraine rejected Putin's name for a ceasefire between Could 8 and Could 11 in honor of Friday's Victory Day celebrations in Crimson Sq., Moscow, to mark the eightieth anniversary of the top of World Conflict II.

Newsweek has contacted the Russian International Ministry and U.S. embassy for remark.

File picture: On Could 1, 2025, a residential constructing in Odesa stands broken by a Russian drone assault. File picture: On Could 1, 2025, a residential constructing in Odesa stands broken by a Russian drone assault. OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/Getty Photographs Why It Issues The warning by the U.S. embassy for civilians to take cowl alerts that, as Kyiv had beforehand mentioned, Putin's name for a three-day ceasefire in the course of the parade was not honest.

It additionally provides one other impediment to U.S. requires a 30-day ceasefire. Ukraine has reported that Russia continued to launch lethal assaults in opposition to civilians, and fight operations on the entrance strains are ongoing.

What To Know The Kremlin introduced a truce from midnight Could 8 to midnight on Could 11, though Kyiv had dismissed this can be a "theatrical" provide, particularly provided that hostilities continued throughout earlier self-declared ceasefires.

On the day when Moscow's Crimson Sq. noticed army {hardware} parade in entrance of Putin and world leaders occurred, the U.S. embassy issued a warning that Russia chilly launch a "probably important assault" within the coming days.

Friday's assertion from the embassy urged Americans to take shelter if there was an aerial alert, following the language beforehand issued as a part of its customary safety protocols.

The assertion known as for individuals to establish shelter places; obtain a dependable air alert app; preserve reserves of water, meals and medicine; and observe the instructions of Ukrainian officers and first responders.

It gave no particulars relating to the sort of potential assault. Ukrainian army information outlet Militarnyi mentioned that Russia will shut its airspace over its Kapustin Yar missile testing vary in Astrakhan area on Could 12 and 13 to permit for the launch of ballistic missiles.

An identical flight ban was put in place on November 21 forward of a ballistic missile strike by a Kedr (Oreshnik) missile on the town of Dnipro.

Regardless of the supposed truce, Kyiv has mentioned that Russia had continued to launch lethal assaults in opposition to civilians in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian army has reported that fight operations on the entrance strains had not stopped.

Russia's troops launched 130 guided aerial bombs on Thursday in opposition to Sumy Oblast, and a Russian drone killed a person in Kherson on Saturday morning.

Russia's Protection Ministry mentioned Ukrainian forces made 4 makes an attempt to interrupt by means of to the Kursk and Belgorod areas in Russia and shelled Russian territory virtually 1,500 occasions in the course of the so-called truce.

The Russian Protection Ministry assertion additionally mentioned that, on Thursday night time, Ukraine organized assaults and reconnaissance operations within the nation's Luhansk and Donetsk areas and had performed over 5,000 violations of the ceasefire.

What Folks Are Saying The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv mentioned it had "obtained data regarding a probably important air assault that will happen at any time over the subsequent a number of days."

What Occurs Subsequent U.S. President Donald Trump has known as for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire, which Kyiv first agreed to in March, however Moscow has refused. Nevertheless, the brand new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has teased an settlement over the phrases for such a ceasefire as Kyiv's allies meet within the Ukrainian capital this weekend.