As the war enters its 788th day, major developments include:
This is the situation as of Monday, April 22, 2024.
finding
- One person was killed and four others injured in Russian shelling in the city of Ukraine, according to the prosecutor's office in the partially occupied Donetsk region. Four people were injured in a Russian missile attack in the Odessa region, Governor Ole Kipel said.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Russian troops have captured the Bohdanivka settlement in the Donetsk region. Bohdanivka is located just west of the Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut.
- In an evening report, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces named Bochdanivka as one of a series of villages where Ukrainian forces repelled 13 enemy attacks. Specific details were not disclosed.
- Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pretenchuk announced that the navy attacked and damaged the Russian rescue ship Komna in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea. The Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol said Russian forces had repelled an anti-ship missile attack on one of its ships in the port, causing a small fire.
weapons
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed the passage of the long-delayed $61 billion foreign aid bill to Ukraine in the US House of Representatives and called on the US to quickly pass the bill and begin arms transfers.
- European Union foreign ministers will meet in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss strengthening Ukraine's air defenses.
- According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), global military spending rose 6.8% to a record $2.4 trillion due to conflicts in Ukraine and other countries. According to SIPRI estimates, Russia will increase its spending by 24%, reaching $109 billion in 2023. Ukraine's military spending increased by 51% to $64.8 billion, while it also received $35 billion in military aid from its allies, primarily the United States.