Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other of violating a U.S.-brokered three-day ceasefire, with both sides reporting attacks across the front lines. Ivan Fedorov. Head of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region. Said one person was killed and three others wounded by Russian artillery and drone attacks in the last 24 hours, while Another 16 people were also wounded in attacks across other regions of Ukraine, local officials said, according to PBS.

Accusations and Responses

Russia’s defense ministry accused Kyiv of committing more than 1,000 ceasefire violations, state media reported, citing a daily briefing, the ministry said Ukrainian forces had attacked civilian targets in several Russian regions and carried out strikes against Russian military positions on the front line. Russia’s military had “responded in kind” to the ceasefire violations, the ministry said.

Two people were injured by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the area’s Moscow-installed leader Vladimir Saldo said, according to PBS. U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine had bowed to his request for a ceasefire running Saturday through Monday to mark Victory Day, the Russian celebration marking the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Mockery and Diplomacy

Trump said there would also be an exchange of prisoners, declaring that the break in fighting could be the “beginning of the end” of the war. Zelenskyy, who had said Russian authorities “fear drones may buzz over Red Square” during the May 9 parade in Moscow, followed up on Trump’s statement by mockingly declaring Red Square temporarily off-limits for Ukrainian strikes to allow the Russian parade to go ahead. The Kremlin shrugged off the comment as a “silly joke,” according to PBS.

Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Sunday he expects U.S.

Energy and Tensions in Europe

Meanwhile, in a separate but related development, Ukraine has escalated the energy standoff with Hungary and Slovakia by striking a critical section of Russia’s Druzhba oil pipeline system deep inside Russian territory, according to TRT World. Ukrainian long-range drones struck the Kaleykino oil pumping station near Almetyevsk in Russia’s Tatarstan region early on Monday, igniting fires and shutting down a key transit point in the Druzhba pipeline network.

Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed the attack in a Telegram post, calling Kaleykino one of Russia’s “key oil pumping stations.” Russia’s defense ministry acknowledged engaging “enemy drones” over Tatarstan but did not comment on reported damage. Regional news outlet RT-Respublika Tatarstan said emergency services had the situation under control.

The strike came just hours after Budapest threatened to block a €90 billion ($106 billion) EU loan to Ukraine and halt electricity exports unless oil transit through Druzhba resumes, a move that has sharpened tensions within the European Union. The Druzhba pipeline — Russian for “Friendship”, is one of the world’s largest oil pipeline systems, stretching roughly 4,000 kilometers from Samara in Russia to multiple European destinations, including Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, according to TRT World.