These are the key events on the 1,149 of the Russian War in Ukraine.
This is where things are on Friday, April 18:
Struggle
- The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its air defense systems destroyed or intercepted 71 Ukrainian drones around six Russian regions during the night, or that they were 49 were demolished in the Kursk region.
- The Ministry said the Preobrazhensky village was carried out in the East Region of Donetsk of Ukraine, reports the state news agency Tass.
- The kyiv Air Force said Russia launched five missiles and 75 drones in Ukraine during the night, of which 25 were demolished and another 30 did not reach their objectives due to electronic war measures.
- The Russian artillery bombardment killed two and wounded another five in the southern city of Nikopol, the regional governor, Serhiy Lysak.
- The death toll of the recent Russian mass attacks against Dnipro amounted to three, while another 31 were jury. At least 15 buildings were also damaged, according to the mayor of Dnipro, Borys Filatov.
- A Russian drone attack in the southern region of Ukraine of Kherson killed two highway workers, said the governor of the region, Oleksandr Prokudin.
- Ukraine’s Top Military Commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, Said Ukraine Had Gained Small Pockets of Land Amount to About 16 Square Kilometres (6 Square Miles) Near The Ukrainian Settlements of Udachne, Kotlyne and Fowchenkos, All of Whathen, All of Whning OF WHATICH, ALL OF WHATICH, ALL OF WHATICH, ALL OF WHATICH, ALL OF WHATHKIST, ALL OF WHATHKIST, ALL WHATICHIST, ALL WHATICHIST, ALL WHATICHIST OR WHATHKIST OR WHATCHIST O Pokrovsk.
Cease-fire
- Russian management at the Zaporizhia nuclear energy plant said the installation was attacked by Ukrainian drones despite a 30 -day mutual moratorium in energy attacks.
- The spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Ukraine had violated the agreement daily, claiming a total of 80 attacks so far in the energy sites. According to the Moscow Ministry of Defense, 10 attacks were held on the last day.
- Ukraine’s largest energy producer, DTEK, said Russian drones attacks destroyed their energy infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
- A Ukrainian delegation with representatives of the United Kingdom, France and Germany in Paris to discuss a possible fire between Moscow and kyiv, said Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha.
- Ukraine and European countries also with the Secretary of State of the United States Marco Rubio and the special envoy of the United States Steve Witkoff in Paris to the kyiv case for an equitable agreement of Alto El Fuego with Russia.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a meeting between the countries of the United States, Ukraine and Europe in Paris was an opportunity for Witkoff to inform them about the status of discussions of Alto El Fuego.
- A Russian envoy said that the meeting of the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin with Witkoff, was “extremely productive”, but accused some countries of trying to interrupt the dialogue between the two countries.
Policy and diplomacy
- Ukraine and the United States signed a memorandum of intention as an initial step towards the consumption of an agreement on mineral extraction in Ukraine, said the first viceprimer Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenko.
- The Ukrainian president, Volodyymyr Zenskyy, urged to put “pressure” on Russia to end the three -year war in Moscow against kyiv.
- President Zenskyy also said that Ukraine has evidence that China was supplying artillery and gunpowder to Russia.
- Zenskyy said Russia has reduced strikes in Ukraine energy facilities, but has begun to attack civil infrastructure.
- Zenskyy also said that kyiv was prepared to buy at least 10 patriotic defense systems of the United States to protect ITELF from Russian attacks.
- The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Russia, Zakharova, said that the use of a Taurus missile to attack Russia would be consulted in direct particle by Germany in the Ukrainian war. His comments followed the willingness to expression of Friedrich Merz from Germany to provide Kyiv the missiles.