'We need real peace': Ukrainians have little faith in Easter truce

Easter festivities are muted in Kharkiv as Ukrainians expect fighting to flare up again after a weekend truce.

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By mid-morning on Easter Sunday, as families across the country attended church, Ukraine's military had recorded more than 2,000 ceasefire violations along the frontline, but no long-range missile or drone strikes. Russia's military gave a similar number.

The pause in fighting was supposed to last until Monday, to give people a much-needed rest more than four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

"Easter should be a time of safety, a time of peace," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X shortly after the truce began, warning that Ukrainian forces would respond "strictly in kind" to any actions by Moscow.

But expectations and trust were very low.