KYIV, Ukraine, April 1, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Russian fired hundreds of drones at Ukraine overnight and during the day on Wednesday, killing at least five people and destroying a postal terminal, Ukrainian officials said. The attacks came a day after the Kremlin rejected a Ukrainian proposal for a temporary ceasefire over the Easter holiday. "We proposed a ceasefire for Easter -- in response, we're getting 'shaheds'," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Facebook, referring to the Iranian-designed drones that Russia uses on Ukraine daily. In addition to firing 339 drones at Ukraine overnight, Russia launched over 360 drones during the day, the Ukrainian air force said. A Russian drone killed four people in the central Cherkasy region, while an earlier drone strike on a car in Ukraine's frontline Kherson region killed a woman and badly wounded two other people, regional authorities said.
