
These are the key events on the 134th day of the Russian war against Ukraine.
These are the key events on Wednesday, April 2:
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- Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said two others were injured in a Russian overnight attack in the Ukrainian Zaporizhia region in southeastern Russia.
- Ukrainian authorities say a Russian ballistic missile strike against Kryvyi Rih of Ukraine killed at least four people, including 14 of them injured, including two children.
- The region’s governor Oleh Syniehubov said a baby, a seven-year-old boy and six others were also injured. Kharkif Mayor Ihor Terekhov said 15 drone strikes were underway in the area.
- Acting state governor Alexander Khinshtein said at least 60 people were forced to evacuate from their homes in the Russian city of Kursk because the intercepted Ukrainian drone fell into pieces.
- Russian state news agencies Tass and Ria Novosti reported that Russian troops destroyed 93 Ukrainian drones overnight, most of which were destroyed in the Kursk region.
- The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 41 of 74 Russian drones overnight. The Air Force said the other 20 drones failed to reach their targets due to electronic interference measures.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said nearly 4,000 people were out of power after Russian drones hit a substation in the Sumi region in northeast Ukraine, and the artillery fire damaged the power lines in the Dnipropetrovsk region in the central region.
- The Moscow Ministry of Defense also accused Kiev of hitting Russian energy facilities twice in the past 24 hours, even though the United States has promoted a U.S. energy strike.
- Germany’s German news agency (DPA) reported that Russia used air bombs to destroy a dam in the Belgorod border area. The cause of the damage to the dam was not given.
Oil and gas
- Russia said it ordered the closure of Kazakh oil exports and the Black Sea ports of American giants Chevron and ExxonMobil and the closure of American giants Chevrolet and ExxonMobil after two mooring periods of ships at the terminal.
Ceasefire
- Russia and Ukraine alleged violating the suspension of energy strikes by U.S. brokers, with both countries reporting damage to energy facilities due to so-called violations on both sides.
Politics and diplomacy
- President Zelenskyy’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak said 11 Ukrainian children returned to Kiev from Russia from Russia, and Russian-occupied Ukraine was under the initiative to bring back children.
- The Kremlin said Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev would visit the United States and said that contact with Washington is ongoing, which is “possible”. Reuters News Agency reported that Dmitryev will hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration in Washington this week.