Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, Day 1,154 | Russia-Ukraine War News

These are the key events of the 1,154 day of the Russian war in Ukraine.

This is where things are on Wednesday, April 23:

Combat

An emergency state was declared in the Vladimir region of Russia, in the east of Moscow, after a large explosion in a ammunition storage site, the state news agency said, citing emergency services.
Vladimir’s regional governor Alexander Avdeev said that the explosion occurred when the ammunition set fire to a storage area on a military base in the Kirzhach district and that emergency staff worked at the scene.
Russia struck the city of southern Zaporizhzhia with two aerial bombs. The attack killed a 69 -year -old woman and injured 24 people, including four children, according to the regional governor, Ivan Fedorov.
Ukraine’s air force said that 38 of the 77 drones of the attack Russia launched was launched at the beginning of Tuesday morning, with 31 of the drones that did not reach its goals, probably due to the electronic war.

Russian drone attacks overnight, South and Central of Ukraine, damaged civilian infrastructure and civilian companies in the Poltava region and civilians injured in the Odesa region, according to Ukrainian officials on Wednesday.
Odesa went to a « mass attack » by Russian drones on Tuesday night, and wrote at least three people, wrote Oleh Kiper, the head of the Regional Administration, Oleh Kiper. He said that a residential building took place in a densely populated urban area of Odesa, civil infrastructure and an educational installation.
Air defense units repelled Russian aerial attacks in the Kiev region and the second largest city in Kharkiv, according to regional governors, according to the Telegram channels.
Russian forces said that they have resumed the monastery of St. Nicholas Belogorsky in the village of Gornal in the Kursk region of Russia, where the Ukrainian troops had been based, according to a security source in Russia. A Russian military telegram channel said that Ukraine had deployed troops, artillery and drone pitchers at the monastery, which Russia’s troops had resumed after ten days of fierce struggle.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Chinese citizens worked in a drone production site in Russia and suggested that Moscow could have « stolen » China’s Drone technology. The Ukrainian leader has already alleged that China supplies weapons and gunpowder in Russia, and has asked Beijing that Chinese nationals will fight with Russian forces in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said he called the China ambassador and explained « serious concern » about Chinese participation on the side of Russia in the war.

President Zelenskyy reiterated his preparation for even partial cessation with Russia: « Ukraine is ready for a high fire, and if this cessation of fire is partial, we are ready for reciprocal measures, » he told a press conference in Kyiv.
Zelenskyy also said that Ukraine will not recognize any territories temporarily occupied as Russian: « There is nothing to be discussed. This is out of our Constitution. »
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the current front line, said the Financial Times (FT).
According to FT, Putin made the proposal during a meeting with United States envoy, Steve Witkoff, to St Petersburg, early this month. Putin said he would be willing to remove Moscow’s claims from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kheson and Zaporizhia, and in return, the United States would recognize the Crimean Peninsula as Russian and also prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.

American envoy Witkoff will travel to Moscow again this week in the middle of the media reports that President Trump has proposed to accept that the territory annexed to Moscow in the Ukraine Crimea was recognized as Russia.
The Secretary of State -American, Marco Rubio, will not attend the talks in London later to end the war in Ukraine, said spokeswoman for the State Department Tammy Bruce, after saying before he was planning to travel to London.
Europe has increasingly concerned about the United States President’s administration’s openings, Donald Trump, to Moscow, after failure until Trump’s efforts to secure a ceasefire in the war.
British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, will lead peace talks in London, which will be attended by officials of Ukraine, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.

The Axios news site reports that the United States is waiting for a response to a peace framework on Wednesday that includes unofficial Russian control recognition in almost all areas occupied since the beginning of 2022 of the war in Ukraine. According to Axios, under the proposal, which was presented last week, the United States would raise sanctions imposed on Russia since 2014 and return a small part of Kharkiv occupied by Russian to Ukraine.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant would be considered as Ukrainian territory but operated by the United States, with electricity provided in both Ukraine and Russia, according to Axios.

President Zelenskyy said Ukraine did not discuss any new aid packages with the United States.

The European Commission is evaluating if it could be legislated to prohibit European Union companies to sign new contracts for Russian fossil fuels, according to reports, and works on legal options to allow companies in the European Union to break existing gas supply contracts with Russia without criminal penalties.

Denmark will spend about four billion crowns ($ 614 million) on building and acquiring 26 marine ships for patrolling, oil and surveillance response to underwater cables, said Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Pululsen. The investment occurs when the countries that border the Baltic Sea are on high alert after several underwater cables are broken and the sabotage of the North Stream gas pipes.

The EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told the AFP news agency that the United States did not use their « tools » to pressure Russia in peace in Ukraine, as he accused Moscow of playing over time with his Easter truce in Ukraine.
President Zelenskyy will attend the funeral service of the missing Pope Francis, presidential counselor Dmytro Lytvyn told Ukrainian news agency RBK-UKRAINE. Zelenskyy will travel to Rome along with his wife Olena, said Lytvyn.
President Putin, who is submitting to a detention mandate of the International Criminal Court for his invasion of Ukraine, will not attend the funeral, said Kremlin.