Russia War of Ukraine: List of the main events, today 1,143 | Russia-Ukraine, news war

These are the main events of day 1,143 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here, things stand on Saturday, April 12:

Fighting

• The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the air defense units destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones within 30 minutes late on Friday. The ministry said that between 10 and 10:30 pm local time (19: 00-19: 30 GMT), nine drones were destroyed on the Russian Rostov region on the eastern border of Ukraine, and four in the Kursk region on the northern border of Ukraine.
• Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski visited a fatal Russian attack site on his hometown of Crivie Rie, one week after 19 people were killed, including nine children and adolescents.
• In recent days, Ukrainian officials have sent a list of goals that Russia has been violating the energy infrastructure that Kiev and Moscow agreed last month as part of the efforts made by the United States to reach a ceasefire.
• Military analysts believe that Russia is preparing to launch a new military attack in the coming weeks to increase pressure and strengthen the Kremlin’s hand in the ceasefire negotiations.

• President Zelinski said that hundreds of Chinese citizens were fighting in the Ukrainian front line alongside the Russian forces, and accused Moscow of withdrawing Beijing to invade his country. “So far, we have information that several hundreds of Chinese citizens are fighting as part of the Russian occupation forces,” Zelinski said.
• More than 100 Chinese citizens fighting for the Russian army against Ukraine are mercenaries who do not seem directly related to the Chinese government, two American officials familiar with the US intelligence and a former Western intelligence official for Reuters. Officials told Reuters that the Chinese military officers were on the scene of the war behind the Russian lines with Beijing’s approval of tactical lessons from the war.
• Zelinski said that Ukraine is ready to buy additional air defense systems, adding that he discussed it with US President Donald Trump.

cease-fire

• The talks between the American special envoy Steve Witkeov and Russian President Vladimir Putin continued on Friday in Russia for more than four hours, with no concrete results. According to the news agency in Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not rule out another phone call between Putin and Trump after the discussions.
• “Russia must move. Many people (they) die, thousands per week, in a terrible and meaningless war – a war that should never have occurred, and will not happen, if you were president !!!”
• Analysts said that Russia has rejected a US -backed suggestion for a 30 -day ceasefire and it appears to be a limited truce in the Black Sea agreed last month.

• German Defense Secretary Boris Petsorius said on Friday, after chairing a meeting of the Defense Communication Group in Ukraine in Brussels alongside British Defense Secretary John Heili that “the ongoing aggression” from Russia means “we must give up peace in Ukraine, it seems far in the near future.”
• If a ceasefire is not achieved by the end of this month, Trump may impose additional sanctions on Russia, the American news website Axios reported, pointing to an unknown source.
• Ukraine can be divided like Berlin after World War II, and it seems that President Trump’s envoy to Kiev, General Keith Keel, suggests that Russia continues to withstand a truce. In an interview with the Times newspaper, Keel said that the country can be divided into areas of control, with British and French forces as part of the “power of reassurance” in the West and Moscow forces in the east. Between them will be the Ukrainian forces and a citizen.

Military aid

• European countries have promised to send billions of dollars in more funding to help Ukraine to continue to fight Russia’s invasion. Ukraine allies pledged a maximum of 21 billion euros (23.9 billion dollars) of the country’s military aid, with the UK defense minister warning Haley that the year 2025 was the “critical year” of the war.
• Estonian Defense Minister Hano Bevercor said his country is watching the global arms market and sees opportunities for Ukraine supporters to buy more weapons and ammunition.
• US Defense Secretary Beit Higseth was absent from the donor forum in Ukraine, which was established by the United States and its leaders for several years, although he spoke to the meeting via the video.

Penalties

• A former Russian government minister has been sentenced to the United Kingdom’s sanctions by receiving financial support from family members for more than three years in England. Dmitry Otin, who was appointed as the ruler of Seifastopol on the Russian Crimea by Putin, became the first person convicted of violating the sanctions that were placed after the inclusion of illegal Crimea from Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
• The navy in Estonia said it had detained an oil tanker believed to belong to the Russian “Shadow Fleet” in the Gulf of Finland in order to verify its papers.

Regional security

• The decrease in the number of American soldiers in Eastern Europe will be seen as approaching Washington another step closer to Moscow and a disturbing brand for the Europeans, according to analysts. NBC News, quoted American and European sources, said this week that the US Department of Defense was looking at the withdrawal of 10,000 soldiers from Europe.
• President Putin announced billions of investments to rearm the navy in his country. “In the next decade, 8.4 trillion rubles (about 97 billion dollars) have been allocated to build new boats and ships for the navy,” Putin said in a meeting on the development of the Navy in Saint Petersburg.
• Putin said that the navy will develop drone technology and robots, and claimed that 49 warships of various layers have been built in Russian shipbuilding basins in the past five years, including nuclear submarines that can be equipped with new zircon missiles.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sharply criticized politicians in the European Union against the backdrop of rapprochement between the Kremlin and the new American administration.
• Lavrov said that the politicians such as German Foreign Minister Analeina Perbuk, the European Union diplomat Kaja Calas and European Commission President Ursula von der Lin did not think about their voters, but they put the desire to punish Russia over the welfare of their citizens.