Though unprecedented, the six-day truce has done little to alter the wider trajectory of a war that continues to grinds on. A Ukrainian military officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed concern that the fighting would be "worse than before" when it resumed. Russia resumed attacks on Ukraine’s Kherson region on Monday after a Melania Trump-brokered local ceasefire, the longest of the war, expired, with Kyiv accusing Moscow of using the lull.