These are the key events on 1,143 or the Russian war in Ukraine.
This is where things are on Saturday, April 12:
Struggle
- The Russian Ministry of Defense said the Air Defense Units destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones in a period or 30 minutes on Friday afternoon. The Ministry said that between 10-10: 30 pm local time (19: 00-19: 30 GMT), nine drones were destroyed over the Russia Russian region on the eastern border of Ukraine, and four on the northern border of Ukraine.
- The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zenskyy, visited the site of a mortal Russian attack against his hometown of Kryvyi Rih, a week after a Russian missile strike killed 19 people, including nine children and adolescents.
- Ukrainian officials have sent to Washington a list of objectives that believes that Russia has attacked in rape of the high the fire of the energy infrastructure that kyiv and Moscow agreed last month part of the efforts of the United States to reach a high fire.
- Military analysts believe that Russia prepares to launch a new military offensive in the next week to increase the pressure and strengthen the hand of the Kremlin in the high fire negotiations.
- President Zenskyy said that hundreds of Chinese nationals were fighting in the line of the Ukraine front along with the Russian forces, and accused Moscow of dragging Beijing to his invasion of his country. “From now on, we have information that ate several hundred Chinese citizens are fighting as part of Russia’s occupation forces,” Zenskyy said.
- More than 100 Chinese citizens fighting for the Russian army against Ukraine are mercenaries that do not seem to have a direct link with the Chinese government, two US officials of family intelligence and an old Western intelligence. However, Chinese military officers have bone at the Theater of War behind Russia’s lines with Beijing’s approach to extract tactical lessons from the war, officials told Reuters.
- Zenskyy said Ukraine was ready to buy additional air defense systems, adding that he discussed it with US President Donald Trump.
Cease-fire
- The conversations between the special envoy of the United States Steve Witkoff and the Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday in Russia lasted more than four hours, without concrete results revealed. According to the Interfax news agency in Russia, Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not rule out the possibility of another phone call between Putin and Trump after discussions.
- Trump said in a publication in Truth Social: “Russia has to move. Too many people [are] Dying, thousands of the week, in a terrible war and sensors, a war that should never happen, and it would not have happened, if he were president! “
- Russia has rejected a proposal backed by the United States for a high unconditional fire of 30 days and seems to be dragging their feet on a more limited truce in the black Sea agreed last month, analysts said.
- German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Friday, after presiding over a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels along with British Secretary of Defense John Healey, that “continuous aggression” of Russia meant “we must have Roach in Ukraine Future.”
- If the fire is not high at the end of this month, Trump could impose additional sanctions to Russia, the US news site reported. Axios, citing an anonymous source.
- Ukraine could be divided as Berlin after World War II, President Trump’s envoy to kyiv, General Keith Kellogg seemed to suggest while Russia continues to endure the acceptance of a truce. In an interview with the Times newspaper, Kellogg said that the country could be divided into control, with the British and French troops as part of a “tranquility force” in the forces of the West and Moscow in the east. Among them would be the Ukrainian forces and a demilitarized area.
Military help
- European countries have promised to send billions of dollars in additional funds to help Ukraine continue fighting Russia’s invasion. The allies of Ukraine promised a record of 21 billion euros ($ 23.9 billion) or military aid for the country, with the Secretary of Defense of the United Kingdom Healey warning that 2025 was “the critical year” for war.
- Defense Minister Estonia, Hanno Pevkur, said his country is monitoring the world’s arms market and sees opportunities for Ukraine sponsors to buy more weapons and ammunition.
- The United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseeth, was absent from the Ukrainian Donor Forum that the United States established and led for several years, however, spoke with the video meeting.
Sanctions
- A former Russian government minister who violated the sanctions of the United Kingdom upon receiving the financial support of family members was sentenced to more than three years in prison in England. Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, who was appointed Governor of Sevastopol in Crimea attached by Russia by Putin, became the first person convicted of violating the established sanctions after the illegal annexation of Crimea de Ukraine in 2014.
- Estonia’s Navy said she stopped an oil tanker who believed she belongs to the “shadow fleet” of Russia in the Gulf of Finland to verify his documents.
Regional Security
- A reduction in the number of American soldiers in Eastern Europe would look like Washington approaching another step closer to Moscow and a worrying signal for Europeans, according to analysts. The NBC news channel, citing US and European sources, said this week that the United States Department of Defense was analyzing the withdrawal of 10,000 Europe.
- President Putin announced billions in investments for the reharmony of the Navy of his country. “In the next decade, 8.4 billion rubles [around $97bn] They are intended for the construction of new ships and ships for the Navy, ”said Putin at a meeting on the development of the Navy in St. Petersburg, Chordination to Russian news agencies.
- Putin said the Navy would develop drone and robots technology, and said that 49 warships of various classes have been Buil in Russian shipyards in the last five years, including nuclear submarines that can new hypersonic missiles of Circón.
- Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov strongly criticized European Union politicians in the context of an approach between Kremlin and the new US administration.
- Politicians such as German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, the diplomat of the Kaja Kallas European Union and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, were not thinking about their voters, but had put the desire to punish Russia, said the welfare of his.