Kuala Lampur, April 13 --  

KHARKIV, April 13 - A truce between Russia and Ukraine to mark the Orthodox Easter formally expired today, both sides having accused each other of thousands of violations, despite a lull in Russian air raids.

The truce lasted 32 hours, from 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Saturday until the end of the day on Sunday.

Both sides had agreed to observe the ceasefire, which Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered on Thursday and which Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky proposed more than a week earlier.

But as with a similar agreement last year, only relative calm reigned along the 1,200-kilometre (745-mile) front line.

As of 10 pm yesterday, "7,696 violations by the enemy have been recorded", the Ukrain...