Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of breaching a now-expired Easter truce announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Saturday, Putin declared a unilateral Easter truce, stating that it would begin at 18:00 local time (1500 GMT) on Saturday and lasts until midnight on Sunday into Monday (2100 GMT on Sunday).
However, Russia and Ukraine accused each other of breaching the 30-hour truce, with both sides blaming the other of carrying out multiple attacks.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that it repelled Ukrainian attacks overnight.
The ministry said Russian troops "remained at previously occupied lines and positions" while Ukrainian troops "attempted to attack the positions of Russian troops" in the Donetsk region overnight.
It added that Ukrainian forces had fired at Russian positions 444 times and counted more than 900 Ukrainian drone attacks.
Meanwhile, Zelensky said on Monday that according to a report by Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi as of 0:00 on Monday, following the end of Easter, the total number of violations by the Russian army of Russia's own ceasefire promise throughout the day reached 2,935. The highest number of shelling and assaults occurred in the Pokrovsk direction. Russia's promise of a full ceasefire also did not apply to the Kursk direction.
Overall, across the frontline, there were 96 Russian assaults, 1,882 instances of shelling on Ukraine's positions, including 812 involving heavy weaponry, and over 950 instances of FPV drone use by Russian forces, according to the Ukrainian side.
According to a TASS report, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Easter truce expired on Monday as Putin has not ordered to extend it.
Zelensky said Monday on social media that Russia had not responded either to the proposal for a full 30-day ceasefire after Easter, or to the proposal for at least extending the truce in the sky that would see an end to missile and drone strikes on civilian infrastructure. The nature of Ukraine's actions will remain symmetrical: ceasefire will be met with ceasefire, and strikes will be met with counterattacks, he said.
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China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will work with relevant departments and local authorities to take concrete steps to promote the implementation of the newly passed private sector promotion law, a landmark legislation concerning a vast economic force in the country, said an NDRC official.
China's top legislative body -the National People's Congress - passed the private sector promotion law on Wednesday, establishing a legal backing for the steady and healthy growth of the key sector, including more than 57 million private firms and over 100 million self-employed individuals.
This landmark law is China's first fundamental legislation dedicated to the private sector. It will bolster confidence among the vast community by improving the business environment, fostering innovation, and ensuring fair competition, according to NDRC, the country's top economic planner.
"The private sector promotion law has actively responded to the key concerns in the development of the private sector. Efforts are made to establish and improve relevant systems and enhance the enforceability of the systems, from ensuring fair competition, improving investment and financing environment, supporting technology innovation, focusing on regulated operation, optimizing services and guarantees, and improving rights and interest protection, to strengthening legal accountability, so as to ensure that all forms of ownership can equally utilize production factors by the law, participate in market competition fairly, receive equal legal protection, further unleash their complementary advantages, and pursue common development," said Liu Min, deputy director of Private Sector Development Bureau under NDRC.
Liu added NDRC will continue to work together with relevant departments and local authorities to improve supporting systems and mechanisms and take concrete steps to promote the implementation of the private sector promotion law.
"We will make continuous and increasing efforts to remove barriers to market access and to fair competition, to address the issue of overdue payments to private enterprises, to protect the lawful rights and interests of private businesses and entrepreneurs by the law, to implement various relief policies, to help private enterprises shoulder their responsibilities of the era, so as to help translate legal systems into concrete actions and tangible outcomes that promote the high-quality development of the private sector," said Liu.
Concrete steps to take for firmly implementing China's landmark private sector promotion law: official
