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

On Wednesday, April 30th, the situation is as follows:

Fighting

At least one person was killed and at least 38 were hurt in the Russian drone attacks on Kharkiv and Dnipro, according to officials, who were also injured by two children.
The Ukrainian village of Doroshivka in the northeastern Kharkiv region has also been taken over, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The governor of Sumy, a governor of the Ukrainian province, claimed that Russian troops are working to create a buffer zone in the northeastern region near Kursk, but have not had “significant success.”
Authorities in Kiev’s central Dnipropetrovsk region reported earlier on Tuesday that three people had been injured by Russian drone attacks in the country’s capital, Kyiv. A 12-year-old girl was killed in the overnight attacks in the country’s central Dnipropetrovsk region.
Additionally, Ukrainian officials ordered the eviction of seven villages in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, which were once isolated but now face danger from Russian forces.
The governor of the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, claims that a Ukrainian drone struck a car in Russia, killing two people and injuring three.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported earlier that night that it had downed 40 Ukrainian drones over the Kursk border.
Denys Shmyhal, the country’s prime minister, claimed that the country, despite losing nearly half of its domestic gas production in the winter as a result of Russian attacks, is still importing the needed gas.

Zelenskyy also claimed that Russia was “preparing something” for military exercises in Belarus this summer during a summit in Warsaw.
Without Russia and Ukraine making “concrete proposals,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that the country would resign as mediator.
Washington was requesting a “complete, durable ceasefire and an end to the conflict,” according to a Rubio spokesman, not a “three-day moment so you can celebrate something else.” This week will be “critical” for peace efforts, according to the US.
Russia responded to Ukraine’s request to extend the three-day truce to 30 days, saying it would be difficult to reach a long-term ceasefire without first answering a number of “questions”.
Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN’s political affairs chief, welcomed the more intensive negotiations, saying they “offer a glimmer of hope for progress toward a ceasefire and an eventual peaceful settlement.”
Russia was criticized while France and the UK praised US mediation. Kiev rebuffed accusations that Russian forces had targeted Ukrainian civilians, while Kyiv rebuffed those accusations.
In an effort to destabilize the nation, France also alleges that Russia’s military intelligence has launched cyberattacks on a dozen French organizations, including ministries, defense companies, and think tanks, since 2021.

Viktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian captivity, was tortured and had organs removed before her body was returned, according to an investigation by the European nonprofit Forbidden Stories.
A man was given a 27-year sentence by a Russian military court for trying to kill army pilots at a graduation party under Ukrainian orders while serving them with poisoned alcohol and cakes.
Defense officials in Ukraine are being detained because they are suspected of providing the army with defective mortar shells.
According to the Latvian prosecutor’s office, Latvia has sentenced a citizen to six years in prison for supporting Russian forces in Ukraine.

Source: Aljazeera