Right here’s the place issues stand on Sunday, April 6:
Preventing
- Three girls had been wounded and several other fires broke out in a Russian air assault on the southern Ukrainian area of Mykolaiv, in line with Ukrainian officers. The assault additionally broken a number of homes, Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim posted on the Telegram messaging app.
- Russia additionally launched air assaults on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in a single day, with the town’s air defence forces making an attempt to repel the assault, in line with officers.
- The most recent strikes come a day after the Ukrainian Air Pressure reported capturing down 51 of 92 drones launched on the nation by Russian forces in a single day on Saturday.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence has accused Ukraine of accelerating its assaults on Russian power infrastructure, together with within the areas of Bryansk, Belgorod, Smolensk, Lipetsk and Voronezh, regardless of a United States-brokered moratorium. Ukraine dismissed the claims as “pretend”.
- Ukrainian drones struck an explosive manufacturing facility in Russia’s Samara area, inflicting a number of explosions and fires, the Reuters information company reported, citing a supply in Ukraine’s safety service.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed disappointment within the US Embassy’s “weak response” to a Russian missile strike that killed 18 individuals, together with 9 youngsters, in his hometown of Kryvyi Rih. He famous that the US condemnation of the assault made no reference to Russia.
- Zelenskyy hailed “tangible progress” after assembly with British and French navy chiefs in Kyiv to debate the potential deployment of a multinational peacekeeping pressure to Ukraine.