An Orthodox Easter truce agreed by Russia and Ukraine came into force on Saturday afternoon but 38 minutes later we heard air raid sirens in the Kharkiv region in north-eastern Ukraine.
Since then, officials and military have recorded multiple ceasefire violations along the frontline, although no long-range missile or drone strikes.
The pause in fighting is supposed to last until Easter Monday to give people a much-needed rest, more than four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Easter should be a time of safety, a time of peace, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X, warning that Ukrainian forces would respond strictly in kind to any actions by Moscow.
Expectations and trust are very low here.
Shortly before the 16:00 (13:00 GMT) start time for the truce, families brought baskets full of iced Easter cakes, painted eggs, and sausage to St John the Theologian Church for a blessing. They formed a line around the building to be doused with holy water by the parish priest.
The service is traditionally held just before midnight, with a procession around the church, but it was mid-afternoon this year because of the curfew.
Do you believe them? Fr Viktor wanted to know, when I asked about the significance of a Russian ceasefire.
St John's church itself was damaged at the start of the full-scale war and its windows on one side are still boarded up.
Maybe there will be a pause, one parishioner called Larisa suggested. But then Russia will only launch even more intense attacks. We've seen that before.
At a military training ground about 12 miles (19km) from the Russian border, members of Yasni Ochi strike UAV unit are spending the weekend testing new kit for the frontline. They load new kamikaze drones with explosive, then practice diving at targets.
Their commander, Heorhiy, has ordered his troops to sit tight during the 32-hour ceasefire unless they're attacked. But he is sure that will happen. Russia says one thing, then does the other. So you have to be ready.
In the meantime, those on rotation have been dropping Easter cake and alcohol-free wine to their friends at the front by drone.
But no-one talks seriously about returning swathes of territory anymore, like the Donbas region just south of here. However, Heorhiy thinks Ukraine cannot afford to stop fighting until it can demand better conditions in negotiations with Russia. We need real peace talks, the commander says.
Zelensky has offered to make this temporary truce, however flawed, into a lasting ceasefire, and then continue talks with Russia towards securing a proper peace. But the Kremlin has already rejected that, saying its attacks will resume in full on Monday.
In quiet, angry tears, one resident Olha described how she sheltered in a corridor with her elderly mother when her building was blasted by a missile. This truce is only 1.5 days. But at least we can rest a bit, because here, you expect to die every second, she says. We really want peace. Not for 1.5 days. For good.
