These are the key events on 1,148 of the Russian War in Ukraine.
This is where things are on Thursday, April 17:
Struggle
- An attack of Russian unmanned planes in the port city of the Odessa Negro Sea during the night injured three people, caused damaged fires and houses and civil infrastructure, said regional governor Oleh Kiper.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense said its units destroyed 26 Ukrainian drones during the night. Nine of the drones were demolished over the southern region of Voronezh, while eight were tasks in the border region of Belgorod. The remaining drones were demolished over the regions of Kursk, Lipetsk and Moscow, as well as on the Russian attached Crime Peninsula, the ministry said.
- The Ministry of Defense also said that Russia has taken control of Kalynove Village in the East Region of Donetsk of Ukraine.
- The Moscow army also repelled that seven Ukrainian drones about the Ivanovo de Russia region, the location of one of the two Russian missile units that kyiv accuses of launching a deadly attack against the city or sumy that Doosens de Sumy.
- kyiv’s Air Force said Russia launched almost 100 drones in night attacks against Ukraine, or that 57 were shot down and another 34 did not reach their objectives, probably due to electronic war measures.
- Russian sliding bombs and artillery hit the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing a person and hurting another nine, in which Ukrainian officials described as a “double -touch strike” scheduled. The head of the region, Oleksandr Prokudin, said it was a “deliberate tactic of Russia” to prevent rescue victims and damage doctors, rescuers and police officers who rushed to the scene of the first attack only trapped in the second strike.
- An attack by Russian mass drones killed two people and wounded 16 in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro de Southornian, said Regional Governor Serhiy Lysak. Five of the injured were hospitalized.
- The Ukraine Security Service (SBU) said it stopped nine people, including five adolescents, with more than 30 kg (66 pounds) or explosives on suspicion of preparing sabotage attacks against Wemalf in Russia.
Attacks on energy facilities
- Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Ukraine carried out six attacks against Kremlin’s energy infrastructure despite a 30 -day moratorium of 30 days of mutually agreed.
- The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Heorhii Tykhyi, said in an informative news session that Russia carried out more than 30 attacks against their energy infrastructure since the two parties agreed in March to stop the strikes.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia would announce when the negotiated moratorium in the United States would end on energy strikes.
Policy and diplomacy
- The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has written his estimate for the cost of American assistance proven to kyiv since the beginning of Russia’s invasion to approximately $ 100 billion of $ 300 billion, reports Bloomberg News, citing people’s family with the matter.
- The United States and Ukraine have made “substantial progress” in their conversations on a mineral agreement and will be a memorandum, which would give Washington access to rare earth deposits in Ukraine, kyiv’s first vice minister, Yulia Svyrydenko.
- kyiv’s Parliament voted to extend martial law in Ukraine until August 6. The decision was supported by excessive 357 deputies, while a politician voted against the bill.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani de Qatar, will discuss Moscow’s visit on Thursday on Thursday, said Kremlin spokesman, Peskov.
- The former governor of the Kursk region of Russia, Alexei Smirnov, was arrested on Wednesday under suspicion of fraud, the Russian state news agency Tass reported.
