As the war between Russia and Ukraine enters its 411th day, we take a look at the main developments.
This is the state of affairs on Monday, April 10, 2023:
To fight
At least seven civilians were killed in shelling by Russian troops over the weekend, Ukrainian officials reported on Sunday. Russian forces launched 40 airstrikes, four rocket attacks and 58 multiple rocket launcher attacks on different parts of Ukraine between Saturday and Sunday morning, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported. Zaporizhia region governor Yurii Malashko said a total of 18 communities were shelled. Kherson region governor Oleksandr Prokudin said two communities there were hit by warplane bombs late on Sunday, but he did not immediately report any casualties. Kharkiv governor Oleh Syniehubov said two men were killed on Sunday in shelling in Kupiansk, a city held by Russia before Ukrainian forces regained control of nearly the entire province. The Wagner Group, a private Russian military company whose fighters led the offensive on Bakhmut, has suffered heavy casualties, making it necessary to deploy regular army units, said Colonel Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Eastern Group of Forces , Sunday. . More than 30 children were reunited with their families in Ukraine this weekend after a lengthy operation to bring them back from Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea. Kiev estimates that nearly 19,500 children have been brought to Russia since the invasion. Russia has destroyed a depot containing 70,000 tons of fuel near the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, the Russian defense ministry said on Sunday. The Ukrainian army reported continued Russian attacks and shelling, with the heaviest fighting still centered on two towns, Bakhmut and Avdiivka, in the eastern Donetsk region.
Diplomacy
Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova will visit India on Monday and will seek humanitarian aid and equipment to repair energy infrastructure damaged during the Russian invasion, the Hindu news agency reports. Russia threatens to bypass the UN-brokered grain deal unless barriers to its agricultural exports are removed, while Turkey is seeking an extension of the grain deal. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said Saturday it thinks Russia’s overall offensive is “nearing its peak,” citing Ivan Tymochko, the head of Ukraine’s Council of Reserves for the country’s ground forces. country. Pope Francis appeared in his Easter message to the world on Sunday asking the Russians to seek the truth about their country’s invasion of Ukraine and called for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians in the wake of the recent violence.
Conflict
US officials suspect top-secret military and intelligence documents that appeared online, detailing everything from Ukraine’s air defense to Israel’s Mossad spy agency, may have been leaked by someone from the United States, Reuters news agency reports. (TagsToTranslate)News