These are the key events on the 1,135th day of the Russian war against Ukraine.

These are the key events on Thursday, April 3:

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• Russian ballistic missile strike killed at least four people, and injured 17 people in the bombing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih. Kryvyi Rih government chief Oleksandr Vilkul said the attack also triggered fires in the city.
• Overnight, Russian drone attacks targeted Zaporizya and Kharkif regions, killing one person and injuring others, officials said.
• The governor of the region said two people were killed, at least 32 people, including two children, were injured by Russian drone attacks that struck several multi-storey apartment blocks in Kharkif. A man was also injured in a drone attack in Ruski Tyshky, a village outside Kharkif.
• The Kiev Air Force said Russia fired 39 drones at Ukraine overnight, 28 of which were shot down. According to the Air Force, the other seven failed to meet their targets due to electronic warfare measures.
• The city’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the Russian air defense department repelled a drone and attacked Moscow.
• Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of launching more than 30 “provocative” attacks on Russian energy facilities, despite continued agreement on strikes on energy facilities brokered by U.S. businesses.
• According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian troops have attacked Russian energy facilities four times in the past 24 hours. Ukrainian troops denied the allegation, saying their troops complied with the ceasefire but claimed Russia had violated the moratorium “number of times”.

• The Russian Defense Ministry said its troops control two settlements in eastern Ukraine, namely Visel and the Main Street.
• Reuters reported that the war bloggers reported that Russian troops stepped up their attacks in the Kursk region of western Russia, attacking Ukrainian troops, including those held by hundreds of Ukrainian troops in the monastery – the last major Ukrainian throne on Russian territory.
• U.S. Army General Christopher Cavoli said the Ukrainian army resolved some of its manpower shortages to fight Russia, but warned that the U.S. weapon cutoff to Ukraine would pay serious harm to the war in Kiev. Kavoli also said Russia lost more than 4,000 tanks in the Ukrainian war, describing the scale of the war as “awe-inspiring.”

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• Kiev’s Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko said the U.S. reciprocity tariffs imposed by 10% on Ukraine were “difficult but not critical.” She also said Ukraine exported $874 million to the United States last year, while Kiev purchased $3.4 billion worth of goods from the United States during that period.
• Moscow Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia is still not surprised by the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump to impose new tariffs on Russian oil.

Ceasefire

• Ryabov warned that unless the United States recognizes the EU and Ukraine’s “military” stance, there may be no peace agreement in the war against Ukraine.

• President Zelenskyy said in a meeting with community leaders in Chernishiv region in northern Ukraine that maintaining the country’s army size would be a top priority in peace negotiations.
• Zelenskyy also said Ukraine would not accept recognition of Ukrainian territory controlled by Russia as part of Russia. He suggested finding compromises to return these territories to Ukraine through diplomatic means.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Russia violated the U.S.-driven energy ceasefire.

Politics and diplomacy

• Kirill Dmitriev, the investment envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, tried to sow tensions between Russia and the United States by “distorting Russia’s position” and said meetings with the United States showed “positive dynamics”, which showed “positive dynamics” between Washington and Russia.
• Finnish President Alexander Stubb said that as part of the “willing alliance”, France or the UK should be responsible for interacting with Russia, as part of Europe’s efforts to support Kiev.
• The United States has withdrawn teams of European and U.S. investigators from the EU’s judiciary Eurojust to collect evidence of potential Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Eurojust said the move was inspired by “changes in priorities” within the U.S. Department of Justice.