These are the key events on the 1,157 of the Russian War in Ukraine.
This is where things are on Saturday, April 26:
Struggle
- A Senior Russian general was killed in a car bomb attack in the Eastern Suburbio of Moscow or Balashikha, in what Russian researchers and Kremlin investigators said it was a “terrorist attack.”
- Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, 59, a member of the Russian general personnel, was killed when a Volkswagen Golf exploded after an improved explosive device was activated.
- The Kremlin quickly blamed Ukraine for the automobile bomb, the last of a series of Russian military officers and figures in favor of the war that will be killed since the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine. Kyiv did not comment on Moscow’s claims behind the murder.
- Russian War bloggers described Moscalik as a rising star. He had participated in several high -level Russian delegations that had officials to try to negotiate an agreement to the conflict in Ukraine.
- Russia continued its bombing of Ukraine on Friday with a drone that hits an apartment building in the city of Pavlohrad, southeast of Pavlohrad, kills three people and hurting another 10,
- A 76 -year -old boy and woman were among the civilians killed in the night strike of drones against Pavlohrad, in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, the head of the Regional Administration, Serhii Lysak, wrote in Telegram.
- The Russian forces fired 103 Shahed drones and lure in five Ukrainian regions, the Ukraine Air Force reported. The authorities in the northeastern regions of Ukraine Sumy and Jharkiv reported damage to civil infrastructure but without casualties.
- The Ukrainian president, Volodyymyr Zenskyy, visited the site of the mortal Russian attack in the capital of Ukraine, kyiv, who killed at least 12 people on Thursday.
- Zenskyy said that the Russian forces used the attack against Kyiv as a coverage to launch almost 150 assaults in Ukrainian positions along the front line of approximately 1,000 km (620 miles).
Today, together with diplomatic representatives of the international states and organizations that operate in Ukraine, we visit the site of the ballistic missile strike in kyiv. The same place where the Missile explosion claimed the life of 12 or our people. My … pic.twitter.com/ncz8exhioo
– Volodyymyr Zenskyy / водияor. April 25, 2025
- President Zenskyy also said that the components manufactured by American companies were found in a missile used in kyiv’s attack.
Cease-fire
- Speaking to journalists, Zenskyy reiterated that Ukraine’s position on the Crimean Peninsula attached to Russia had not changed, since it was reported that the United States was pressing kyiv to renounce the territory as part of Ceaceefire’s conversations with Withelw.
- “Ukraine will not legally recognize any temporarily occupied territories.
- “I agree with President Trump in which Ukraine does not have enough weapons to recover control of the Crimea Peninsula with weapons. But we and the world have sanctions options,” he added.
- Zenskyy’s comments occurred as the president of the United States said, Donald Trump, in an interview published on Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia”, the last example of how he was pressing Ukraine to make concessions to end the war.
- The envoy of President Trump Steve Witkoff with Russian President Vladimir Putin for three hours in Moscow on Friday to discuss the US plan. To end the war in Ukraine.
- Kremlin’s assistant, Yuri Ushakov, said Witkoff and Putin had a “constructive” conversation, including “a discussion about the possibility of renewing direct negotiations” between kyiv and Moscow. Ushakov said the meeting had led to US and Russian positions to Ukraine “closer.”
- Trump said in a publication on social networks after the Witkoff meeting concluded that it was a good day of conversations and asked for a high -level meeting between kyiv and Moscow to close an agreement.
- “Most of the main points are agreed,” Trump said in office after landing in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday.
Diplomacy
- The Ukrainian Zenskyy has suggested that he cannot attend the funeral of the late Pope Francis in Rome on Saturday due to the increase in Russia’s attacks to his country and his assistance to a “military meeting.” Referring to the possibility of canceling his trip to Rome, Zenskyy said: “For me, it was important to be here.”
- “If I can’t do it, Ukraine will be represented with dignity. The Minister of Foreign Affairs [Andrii Sybiha] And the first lady [Olena Zelenska] It will be present, “Zenskyy told journalists in Kyiv.
- President Trump demanded on social networks that Zenskyy “immediately” signed a delayed agreement that gave access to the United States to the mineral resources of Ukraine.
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