These are the key events on 1,145 or the Russian war in Ukraine.
This is where things are on Monday, April 13:
Struggle
- At least 34 people were killed and another 117, including 11 children, were savored by a Russian missile attack against the city of Northern Sumy of Ukraine, said the state emergency service of Ukraine. This was the deadliest attack against Ucrine this year.
- The Ukraine Air Force said that its units intercepted and destroyed 43 or 55 Russian drones launched in Ukraine during the night. According to the reports, the attacks attacked the areas of the north, south and central of Ukraine.
- The Russian forces captured the village of Yelyzavetivka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, said the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
- The Ministry of Defense in Moscow said that its units destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones over the Rostav region of Russia and one over the country’s Belgorod region.
- The Ministry of Defense said that Ukraine carried out two attacks against Russia’s energy infrastructure in the last day despite a moratorium of 30 days of mutually agreed on energy attacks, according to the Interfax news agency.
- The ministry also said that an Ukrainian F-16 combat plane had demolished, according to Interfax.
Policy and diplomacy
- The president of Ukraine, Volodyymyr Zenskyy, requested “strong pressure” on Russia to end his war against kyiv after Moscow’s mortal attack against Sumy. Hello, he also said that “only dirty scum” could act like this.
- The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said the attack against Sumy was an “error”, without elaborating, but that it was a “horrible thing.”
- The French president, Emmanuel Macron, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, condemned Russia’s attack against Sumy and requested strong measures to impose a high fire in Russia.
- The special envoy of the United States to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, also condemned the “horrible attack” and said “crosses any line of decency”, while German chancellor Friedrich Merz, said Russia committed one. “
- The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, requested a “high durable fire”, pointing out a “devastating pattern of assaults similar to Ukrainian cities and cities in recent weeks.”
- Zenskyy urged Trump to visit Ukraine to understand the severity of destruction in the country at the hands of Russia. “You will understand that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin did, “he said.
- The Russian and Ukrainian foreigners ministers, who speak in the Annual Antalyya diplomacy forum in Türkiye, accused countries of rape of the other of violating the moratorium on the energy strike.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia’s relations with the United States were advancing, but that “resusciting relations from zero is a very difficult task, which requires diplomatic efforts and another very intense type.”