Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,161 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These are the key events on 1,161 or the Russian war in Ukraine.

This is where things are on Wednesday, April 30:

Struggle

• The swarms of Russian drones attacked the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Dnipro on Tuesday night, killing at least one person and wounding at least 38, including two children, authorities said.
• The Russian Defense Ministry also said that it had captured the Ukrainian village of Doroshivka in the Northeast of Jharkiv region.
• The governor of the Ukrainian province of Sumy said that Russian troops are trying to forge a damping zone in the Northeast region, which limits with the Kursk of Russia, but “they have not had any significant success.”
• Earlier on Tuesday, the authorities said that Russian drones attacks during the night killed a 12 -year -old girl in the central region of Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine and wounded three people in the capital, kyiv.
• Ukrainian officials also ordered the evacuation of seven villages in the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk who use the use of front lines, but are now threatened as the Russian forces close.
• In Russia, a Ukrainian drone crashed into a car on a road in the Belgorod region, which limits Ukraine, killing two people and hurting three, according to the governor there.
• Early in the day, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it destroyed 91 Ukrainian drones during the night, with 40 of them knocked down on the border region of Kursk.
• The Ukrainian prime minister, Denys, Shmyhal, said that the country lost almost half of its duration of domestic gases winter due to Russian attacks, and is still compensating for the deficit through imports.

Diplomacy

• The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, asked Russia again to accept a complete and unconditional fire, after Moscow declared a three -day truce, from May 8 to 10, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet II.
• Zenskyy also told a summit in Warsaw that Russia was “preparing something” in Belarus this summer, using military drills as an excuse.
• The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, warned that the United States would step back as a mediator unless Russia and Ukraine delivered “concrete proposals” at the end of the three -year war.
• A Rubio spokesman also said that Washington was looking for a “full and lasting fire and the end of the conflict”, not a “moment of three days so he can celebrate something else.” The United States has said that this week will be “critical” for peace efforts.
• The comments occurred when Russia rejected Ukraine’s proposal to extend the truce of three days to 30 days, saying that it would be “difficult to enter a long -term fire” without first clarifying a series of “questions.”
• In the Security Council, the UN Political Affairs Chief, Rosemary Dicar it, welcomed the intensified efforts to take the parties to the negotiations, saying that “they offer a ray of hope of progress towards a high fire and a peaceful settlement.”
• France and the United Kingdom praised American mediation, while criticizing Russia. Moscow rejected the accusations that the Russian forces had attacked civilians in Ukraine, while kyiv said he could not accept peace at any cost.
• France also accused Russia’s military intelligence of organizing cyber attacks in a boxes of French entities, including ministries, defense signatures and Think Tanks since 2021 in an attempt to destabilize the country.

Policy

• An investigation carried out by the non -profit organization of stories found that the Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity, was tortured and had organized before her body was returned.
• A Russian military court condemned a man 27 years in prison for trying to kill army pilots with alcohol and poisoned cakes at a graduation party in Ukrainian orders.
• Ukraine has arrested defense officials to supply the army with defective mortar layers.
• Latvia has sentenced one of its citizens to six years in prison for fighting for the Russian forces in Ukraine, according to the Letonia prosecutor’s office.