These are the key events of the 1,149 Russian war in Ukraine.
Here is Where things are found on Friday, April 18:
Combat
- The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its Air Defense Systems destroyed or intercepted 71 Ukrainian drones for six Russian regions during the night, of which 49 were fallen in the Kursk region.
- The ministry said that he seized the village of Preobrazhensky in the Eastern Region of Donetsk of Ukraine, reports the state news agency Munt.
- Kyiv’s air force said that Russia launched five missiles and 75 drones in Ukraine at night, of which 25 were shot down and 30 did not achieve their goals due to electronic war measures.
- The Russian artillery killed two and injured five more people in the southern city of Ukraine of Nikopol, said regional governor Serhiy Lysak.
- The number of deaths From the last Russian mass attacks to Dnipro have increased to three, while 31 people were injured. At least 15 buildings were also damaged, according to the Mayor of Dnipro, Borys Filatov.
- A Russian drone attack in the southern Ukraine Kheson region killed two workers on the road, said the governor of the region, said Oleksandr Prokudin.
- Ukraine’s highest military commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, said that Ukraine had won small pockets of land, which were about 16 square kilometers (6 square miles) near the Udachne, Kotlyne and Shevchenko Ukrainian settlements, all of which are a short distance from logistics hub, Pokrovsk.
Cessation of fire
- Russian management of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station said that the installation was attacked by Ukrainian drones despite a 30 -day moratorium on mutually agreed on energy strikes.
- Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Ukraine had violated the agreement daily, claiming a total of 80 strikes so far in energy sites. According to the Moscow Ministry of Defense, ten attacks were held on the last day.
- Ukraine’s largest private energy producer, Dtek, said that Russian Drone’s attacks destroyed their energy infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
- A Ukrainian delegation met with representatives from the United Kingdom, France and Germany in Paris to discuss a potential cessation of fire between Moscow and Kiev, said Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.
- Ukraine and European countries also met with the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, and the Special United States special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Paris to allege the case of Kiev by an equitable cessation agreement.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that a meeting between the United States, Ukraine and the European countries in Paris was an opportunity for Witkoff to inform them about the condition of fire debates.
- A Russian envoy said that the meeting of Russia President Vladimir Putin with Witkoff was « extremely productive », but accused some countries of trying to interrupt the dialogue between the two countries.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukraine and the United States signed a Memory of intent As an initial step towards the reference to an agreement on the extraction of minerals in Ukraine, he said the first vice -first minister of Ukraine, Yulia Svydenko, he said.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged to « press » Russia to end the three -year war of Moscow in Kiev.
- President Zelenskyy also said that Ukraine has evidence that China provided artillery and gunpowder in Russia.
- Zelenskyy said that Russia has reduced strikes at Ukraine’s energy facilities, but has begun to guide civil infrastructure.
- Zelenskyy also said that Kyiv was ready to buy at least 10 patriot’s air defense systems of the United States to protect the Russian attacks.
- The spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Zakharova, said that the use of a Taurus missile to hit Russia would be considered the direct participation of Germany in the Ukraine War. His comments followed the Chancellor of Germany awaiting Friedrich the comments expressing his desire to supply Kiev the missiles.
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