The war has entered its 772nd day and the main developments are as follows:
This is the situation on Saturday, April 6, 2024.
finding
- The Ukrainian military says it launched a swarm of drones at Morozovsk Air Base, destroying six Russian fighter jets, seriously damaging eight other fighter jets, and killing or wounding 20 members of the Russian military base. did. Russia said its air defenses shot down 53 Ukrainian drones, most of which targeted the southern region of Rostov, with only an electrical substation damaged.
- Russia's overnight drone attack on Kharkiv killed six people and injured 11 others, officials in Ukraine's second-largest city said. Ukraine said Iranian-made Russian drones carried out the attacks, hitting multiple high-rise buildings, dormitories and gas stations.
- Pro-Russian separatists in Moldova claimed that explosive drones attacked a military base under their control near the Ukrainian border, targeting a radar station and causing minor damage. They did not directly criticize Ukraine.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that Russian troops had managed to take control of the Vodian settlement in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Russian state media also reported that the soldiers had entered the outskirts of Chasif Yar, near Bakhmut.
- Russia fired five missiles at the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya, killing at least three people and injuring 13 others, the regional governor announced.
diplomacy
- US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned of “serious consequences” for China if Chinese companies provide material support to Russia in its war against Ukraine.
- The Russian government has condemned French President Emmanuel Macron's claims that Russia is trying to sabotage the Paris Olympics through a disinformation campaign, calling them “totally baseless.”
- British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is expected to travel to the United States next week to try to persuade Republican politicians to approve a $60 billion aid package for Ukraine that has been delayed for months in the US Congress.
- Japan will add 164 new industrial products to the list of items prohibited from export to Russia. Targeted items include lithium-ion batteries, automobile engine oil, gas pipes, and optical equipment.
- Russia's Investigative Committee has said that images stored on the mobile phone of one of the suspects in the attack on a concert hall near Moscow earlier this month contain pro-Ukrainian images, including a person dressed in Ukrainian military garb. He claimed that it contained data.
weapons
- Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said the Baltic state would spend 2 million euros ($2.16 million) to buy around 3,000 Lithuanian-made quadcopter drones for Ukraine and establish three recovery centers for Ukrainian soldiers. He also said he would support the project.
