During the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Ramstein format) to be held on April 26, the discussion will focus on how to overcome the difficulties and problems that have accumulated over the past six months as soon as possible.
Over the past day, 93 combat engagements took place at the frontline, with the majority of attacks repelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Lyman, and Novopavlivka directions.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had phone conversations with Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The reports about the alleged "first face-to-face negotiations" between Ukraine and Russia regarding the exchange of children do not correspond to reality.
The Russian invasion army launched a strike at the town of Balaklia in eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, targeting the area outside a railway station and leaving seven civilians injured.
In southern Ukraine’s city of Kherson, local rescuers came under a Russian double-tap strike, shortly after scrambling to the scene of the initial attack to put out a fire.
The Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine hosted a discussion of the possibility of bringing the aggressor state, Russia, to account for attacks on Ukraine’s energy facilities.
At a meeting in Strasbourg, the European Parliament adopted a resolution "On Russia’s undemocratic presidential elections and their illegitimate extension to the occupied territories”.
In the operational zone of the Southern Defense Forces, Ukrainian defenders repelled four Russian attacks on the left bank of the Dnipro River in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, and one attack near Staromaiorske in the Orikhiv sector.