KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and Ukraine resumed strikes as a three-day truce expired on Tuesday.

 

The Russian military said it had shot down 27 Ukrainian drones after the ceasefire expired.

 

US President Donald Trump had announced the truce on Friday, hours before Russia's World War II victory celebrations, saying he hoped it would mark "the beginning of the end" of the four-year-old conflict.

 

But even before it expired, the two countries had traded accusations of attacks on civilians that violated the truce.

 

As the ceasefire ended on Tuesday, Kyiv came under drone attacks, according to Ukrainian authorities.

 

Kyiv's regional military administration told residents to remain in shelters and said its air defences could be operating in the area.

 

On the Russian side, "air defence duty assets intercepted and destroyed 27 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles" over the Belgorod, Voronezh and Rostov regions from midnight to 7:00 am Moscow time (2100 to 0400 GMT), Russia's defence ministry said in a statement.

 

'No silence at front'

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had said Monday that fighting with Russia was ongoing despite the truce, accusing Moscow of not wanting to end the war started by President Vladimir Putin's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

 

"Today there was no silence at the front, there was fighting. We have recorded all of this," Zelensky said in his daily address in the final hours of the truce.

 

Zelensky also said it was "clear that the war in Iran is now drawing the most attention from America".

 

Negotiations on the Russia-Ukraine war have so far led nowhere, and have been largely sidelined by the Iran conflict -- though Trump's ceasefire announcement had raised some hope that US-led talks to end Russia's invasion could be resumed.