As the war enters its 774th day, major developments include:
This is the situation as of Monday, April 8, 2024.
finding
- The Ukrainian military said fighting around the front-line city of Chasiv Yar was “difficult” and “tense” but that Ukrainian troops were resisting Russian air and infantry attacks.
- Ivan Fedorov, the head of Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhya region, said three people were killed when their house was hit by Russian shells in the town of Hulyaipol.
- One woman was killed in a Russian attack on an apartment building in Kupiansk, northeastern Kharkiv region.
- Five people were injured in a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city.
- Meanwhile, in Russia, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a woman was killed when a car was hit by debris from a downed Ukrainian drone. Authorities said they shot down 12 drones in the Belgorod region and three over Bryansk.
- Russia has accused Ukraine of a drone attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Ukraine denied the allegations. Russia seized the facility immediately after launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
politics and diplomacy
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Beijing on Monday and Tuesday to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The Foreign Ministry said they would discuss the “Ukraine crisis.”
weapons
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his country would lose to Russia and put other countries at risk of attack unless the U.S. Congress approves a $60 billion military aid proposal that Republicans have blocked for months. .
