These are the main events of day 1,134 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
These are the main events from Wednesday, April 2:
Fighting
- Regional ruler Ivan Fedorov said a person was killed, and two others were injured in a Russian attack overnight on the Zaburisia region in southeast Ukraine.
- The Ukrainian authorities said that a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kreifi Rier, Ukraine killed at least four people and wounded 14 others, including two children.
- Oil Sinhopov, the governor of the region, said that a seven -year -old boy and six others were injured in a drone attack on the Kharkiv region in Ukraine. Ihor Terekhov mayor said 15 plane strikes were carried out in the area.
- Their prosecutor, Alexander Khanchain, said that at least 60 people were forced to evacuate their homes in the Russian city of Kursk after they fell from the usual debris of the drones in their apartment buildings, their governor, Alexander Khoinstein, said.
- Russian government news agencies, Tass and Ria Novosi, stated that Russian forces destroyed 93 Ukrainian drones overnight, and most of them were destroyed on the Kursk region.
- The Ukrainian Air Force said it had shot down 41 of 74 Russian aircraft fired at Ukraine all night. The Air Force said that 20 drones had failed to reach their targets due to electronic jamming measures.
- Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski said that nearly 4000 people were left without electricity after a Russian drone hit a sub -station in the northeastern Sumi area in Ukraine, and artillery fire caused an electric line in the central Dniproptrovsk area.
- The Ministry of Defense in Moscow also accused Kiev of hitting Russian energy facilities twice during the past 24 hours, despite stopping the energy strikes in which the United States has mediated.
- Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported that Russia had destroyed one of its dams in the border area of Bliguod using a grenade. The cause of the dam was not given.
Oil and gas
- Russia said it had ordered the closure of the Black Sea Port station that deals with oil exports in Kazakhstan and the United States giants Chevron and Exxon Mobil, after inspecting the ship marina at the stations.
cease-fire
- Russia and Ukraine accused each other of violating the endowment, which was a means of mediators in the United States on energy strikes after both countries reported damage to energy facilities due to the alleged violations by the two sides.
Politics and diplomacy
- Andrei Yermak, Chief of Staff of President Zelinski, said eleven Ukrainian children were returned to Kiev from Russia and Ukraine, which Russia occupies under the initiative to bring children.
- The Kremlin said it was “possible” to visit the Russian envoy Kirill Dimitriev the United States and said that contact with Washington was continuing. Reuters news agency reported that Dmitriev is expected in Washington this week to hold talks with the administration of US President Donald Trump, Dmitryv news agency.
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