The head of Ukraine's southern Kherson region says that Russian attacks during the 30-hour Easter ceasefire unilaterally declared by President Vladimir Putin over the weekend killed three people in the region.

Russian forces ended a short-lived cease-fire by launching a wave of aerial attacks against cities across south-eastern and central Ukraine overnight, including the capital, Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities said.

Ukrainian soldiers and officials said the announcement mattered little: Russian forces had in any case not paused attacks on Ukraine during its own truce. The main target of Putin’s cease-fire gambit,