This is the case on Wednesday, April 30:
struggle
- Officials said swarms of Russian drones attacked the Ukrainian cities of Kharkif and Denipro late Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring at least 38 people, including two children.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense also said it occupied the village of Doshwaka, a Ukrainian village in the northeast of Kharkif.
- The governor of Sumi Province in Ukraine said the Russian army is trying to open a buffer zone in the northeast that borders Russia's Kursk island, but "has no significant success."
- Officials said earlier Tuesday that Russian drone attacks killed a 12-year-old girl overnight in Ukraine's central dnipropetrovsk area and wounded three people in the capital Christianity.
- Ukrainian officials also ordered the evacuation of seven villages in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, which once stood off the front line but are now under threat with the closure of Russian troops.
- In Russia, a Ukrainian drone hit a car on a highway in the Bergorod region, the state bordering Ukraine, killing two people and injuring three people.
- Earlier in the day, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it destroyed 91 Ukrainian drones, 40 of which fell in the Kursk region on the border.
- Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shyhal said the country lost nearly half of its domestic gas production in the winter due to the Russian attack and was still filling the shortage with imports.
diplomatic
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy once again called on Russia to agree to a three-day truce in Moscow from May 8 to 10 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in World War II and its allies.
- Zelenskyy also told a summit in Warsaw that Russia would "prepare" in Belarus this summer using military exercises as an excuse.
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that the United States will step back unless Russia and Ukraine make a "specific proposal" in the end of the Three Years' War.
- Rubio's spokesman also said Washington is seeking a "full, lasting ceasefire and an end to the conflict" rather than a "three-day moment, so you can celebrate something else." The United States said this week will be "critical" to peace efforts.
- The comments were posted in Russia's proposal to reject Ukraine's three-day truce to 30 days, saying it was "it was difficult to enter a long ceasefire" without clearing many "problems" first.
- Rosemary DiCarlo, head of political affairs at the Security Council, welcomed the intensified efforts to bring the parties to the negotiations, saying they “provided a glimmer of hope towards a ceasefire and a final peaceful solution.”
- France and Britain criticized Russia while praising the US mediation. Moscow refused to accuse Russian troops of targeting civilians in Ukraine, and Kief said that this cannot be accepted at just any cost.
- France also accused Russia of military intelligence of dividing cyber attacks into more than a dozen French entities, including ministries, defense companies and think tanks, trying to destabilize the country.
politics
- An investigation by European nonprofit taboo found that Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who died in captivity in Russia, was tortured and had her organs removed before her body returned.
- Russian military courts sentenced a man to 27 years in prison for trying to kill an army pilot with poisoned alcohol and cakes in a graduate party ordered by Ukraine.
- Ukraine detained defense officials suspected of providing faulty mortar shells to the army.
- According to the Latvia prosecutor's office, Latvia has been sentenced to six years in prison for fighting for Russian troops in Ukraine.