These are the key events on 1,154 of the Russian War in Ukraine.
This is where things are on Wednesday, April 23:
Struggle
- A state of emergency was declared in the Vladimir region of Russia, east of Moscow, after a great explosion in a ammunition storage site, said Tass state news agency, citing emergency services.
- The regional governor of Vladimir, Alexander Avdeev, said the explosion occurred when the ammunition caught fire in a storage area in a military base in the Kirzhach district, and the emergency personnel were working on the scene.
- Russia hit the southern city of Zaporizhia with two air sliding pumps. The attack killed a 69 -year -old woman and injured 24 people, including four children, according to the regional governor, Ivan Fedorov.
- The Ukraine Air Force said it played 38 of the 77 attack drones that Russia launched from Tuesday morning, with 31 of the drones that do not reach its objectives, probably due to the electronic war.
- During the night, the attacks of Russian unmanned airplanes against civil infrastructure and the civil, southern and center of Ukraine in the Poltava region and the injured civilians in the Odessa region, Ukrainian officials said early Wednesday.
- Odessa was under a “mass attack” for Russian drones during the night on Tuesday, wounding at least three people, the head of the Regional Administration, Oleh Kiper, wrote on his Telegram page. A residential building in a densely populated or ODESA urban area, civil infrastructure and an educational center were beaten, he said.
- The Air Defense Units repelled the Russian air attacks against the kyiv region and the second largest city in Jharkiv in Ukraine, regional governors said in positions in telegram channels.
- The Russian forces said they have resumed the monastery of San Nicolás de Belogorsky in the village of Gornal in the Kursk region of Russia, where the Ukrainian troops had based, the Tass news agency of Russia cited a security source. A Russian military telegram channel said that Ukraine had deployed troops, artillery and drone pitchers in the monastery, that Russia’s troops had resumed after 10 days of fierce fighting.
- The Ukrainian president, Volodyymyr Zenskyy, said that Chinese citizens were working in a drone production site in Russia and suggested that Moscow could have “stolen” China’s drone technology. The Ukrainian leader already claimed that China is providing weapons and gunpowder to Russia and has asked Beijing to prevent Chinese citizens from fighting with the Russian forces in Ukraine.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said that he summoned the Chinese ambassador and told him “a serious concern” about Chinese participation on the Russian side in the war.
Cease-fire
- President Zenskyy reiterated his preparation for even a high partial fire with Russia: “Ukraine is ready for a high unconditional fire, and if this fire is partial, we are ready for reciprocal in Kold a press conference.
- Zenskyy also said that Ukraine would not recognize any territories temporarily occupied as Russian: “There is nothing to discuss. This is out of our Constitution.”
- According to the reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to stop the Invasion of Ucrine de Russia in the current first line, said Financial Times (FT).
- According to the FT, Putin made the duration of the proposal a meeting with the United States Envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg earlier this month. Putin said he would be willing to withdraw Moscow’s claims to parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, and Change, the United States would recognize the Crimean Peninsula as Russian and would also prevent Ukraine from getting united.
- The American envoy Witkoff will travel to Moscow again this week amid reports in the media that President Trump has proposed the acceptance that the annexed territory of Moscow in Crimea of Ukraine is recognized as Russia.
- The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will not attend conversations in London later aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, said state department spokesman Tammy Bruce, after saying before he planned to travel to London.
- Europe has been increasingly concerned about the proposals of the administrations of Donald Trump of the United States to Moscow, after the failure of Trump’s efforts so far to ensure a high fire in the war.
- The British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, will direct the Peace Conversations in London, which will be attended by officials from Ukraine, the United States, United Kingdom and Europe.
- The Axios news site reports that the United States expects response on Wednesday to a peace framework that includes the unofficial recognition of Russian control of almost all areas occupied since the beginning of the 2022 war in Ukraine. According to Axios, under the proposal, which was presented last week, the United States would raise the sanctions imposed on Russia since 2014 and return a small part of Kharkiv occupied by Russia to Ukraine.
- The Zaporizhia nuclear energy plant would be considered as Ukrainian territory but operated by the United States, with electricity supplied to both and Russia, Axios reports.
Aid
- President Zenskyy said that Ukraine was not discussing any new help package with the United States.
Sanctions
- The European Commission is evaluating whether to legislate to prohibit the European Union companies to sign new contracts for Russian fossil fuels, according to reports, and are working on legal options to allow Russian companies in the European Union to break existing.
Regional Security
- Denmark will spend about four billion crowns ($ 614 million) to build and acquire 26 vessels from the Navy to patrol, response to the oil spill and surveillance of underwater cables, said Danish defense Lund Poulen. The investment occurs when the countries border the Baltic Sea are on a maximum alert after several submarine cables and the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipes were cut.
Diplomacy
- The EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas told the AFP news agency that the United States has not used his “tools” to press Russia in peace in Ukraine, since he accused Moscow of playing over time with Easter truce in Ukraine.
- President Zenskyy will attend the funeral of the late Pope Francis, said presidential advisor Dmytro Lytvyn to the Ukrainian news agency, RBK-UKRAINE. Zenskyy will travel to Rome with his wife Olena, said Lytvyn.
- President Putin, who is subject to an international court order of the Criminal Court on his invasion of Ukraine, will not attend the funeral, said the Kremlin.