Artillery duels continued this Friday in Bakhmut, the epicenter of fighting in eastern Ukraine, with bombings elsewhere in the country, despite Moscow’s announcement of a 36-hour unilateral ceasefire that Kyiv called a “manoeuvre.”
Several shots from both sides of the conflict were visible after the start of the truce in this city with destroyed and almost deserted streets, but their intensity was less compared to previous days, the AFP news agency points out.
Pavel Dyachenko, a policeman from Bakhmut, argued that the truce was a Russian “provocation” that would not help the civilians who still remain in the city. “They are being bombed day and night and people are dying almost every day,” he said, quoted by AFP.