Russia launched more than 40 missiles and 40 drones against Ukraine last night, targeting its “critical infrastructure”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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UKRAINE-LATVIA AGREEMENT
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, visiting Lithuania, announced this Thursday that he had signed a ten-year agreement with neighboring Latvia on the aid that this Baltic country is committed to providing to Ukraine.
“This agreement provides for annual military support from Latvia to Ukraine in the amount of 0.25% of GDP. Latvia also committed to assist Ukraine for ten years in the areas of cyber defense, mine clearance and unmanned technologies, as well as supporting Ukraine’s membership in the EU and NATO,” Volodymyr Zelensky said on social networks, thanking his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics.
SWEDEN STRENGTHENS ITS DEFENSE
The Swedish government announced on Thursday that it would spend an additional 385 million crowns (33 million euros) to strengthen its fallout shelters, emergency services and civil defense, after warning that the country needed to prepare for war.
Sweden, which joined NATO at the beginning of March, is investing to improve the operating capacities of emergency services in the event of conflict, strengthen its cybersecurity and supplement stocks of medicines, said the Minister of Civil Defense, Carl- Oskar Bohlin.
PEACE CONFERENCE
The Kremlin estimated this Thursday that talks on Ukraine in the absence of Russia had “no sense”, after Switzerland announced the day before that it would organize such a conference in June without Russian representation.
“We have said many times that a negotiation process without Russia makes no sense,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov, questioned about the Swiss initiative which is to bring together on June 15 and 16 representatives from around a hundred countries.
STRIKE IN MYKOLAIV
A strike left two dead and four injured this Thursday in Mykolaiv, a large city in southern Ukraine, the regional governor said. “As a result of shelling in the city, two people died and four were injured, according to preliminary information,” Governor Vitaly Kim said on Telegram.
UKRAINIAN MOBILIZATION
The Ukrainian Parliament adopted this Thursday, according to deputies, a bill toughening mobilization in the army, a controversial text because it does not provide for a demobilization period for soldiers.
“It’s done!! the law on mobilization is adopted. 283 (deputies voted) in favor”, indicated on Telegram the elected official Oleksiï Goncharenko, while Ukraine, faced with a shortage of volunteer soldiers, was working to this text for many months, punctuated by controversy after more than two years of war against Russia.
ZELENSKY IN LITHUANIA
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announces his arrival in Lithuania to discuss regional support for Ukraine.
RUSSIAN ATTACKS IN IMAGES
Russia hit Ukraine heavily overnight. Discover the images of these attacks, which destroyed numerous buildings and “essential infrastructure”.
Ukraine: 40 missiles and 40 drones launched by Russia on “essential infrastructure”Source : TF1 Info
NIGHT ATTACKS
Russia launched more than 40 missiles and 40 drones against Ukraine overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, targeting its “essential infrastructure,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“Overnight, Russia fired more than 40 missiles and 40 drones at Ukraine,” the head of state said on X. “Some Shahed missiles and drones were successfully shot down. Unfortunately, only one part of them. Russian terrorists have once again targeted critical infrastructure.”
Overnight, Russia fired more than forty missiles and about forty drones at Ukraine. I thank everyone engaged in recovery efforts after the attack, as well as to every warrior of our air defense system who was on guard last night. Some missiles and “Shahed” drones were… pic.twitter.com/Oxk78LTVj6 — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 11, 2024
RUSSIAN ATTACKS
Russia carried out a “massive attack” against Ukraine overnight and targeted its energy infrastructure across the country, Ukrainian authorities announced this Thursday morning. “The enemy is attacking our energy infrastructure again!” Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on the Telegram social network.
These attacks targeted “production facilities and transmission systems” in the regions of kyiv, Kharkiv (northeast), Zaporizhia (south) and Lviv (west), he detailed. Two thermal power plants of Ukrainian energy supplier DTEK were attacked, the company reported on Telegram this morning, without specifying their location.
POINT POSITION
- Russian strikes in the Kharkiv region. Russian forces carried out at least ten strikes overnight against “essential infrastructure” in the Kharkiv region, in the north-east of Ukraine, fully on air alert, the local governor announced this Thursday morning. “At the moment there are no victims,” Oleg Synegubov reported on the social network Telegram.
- Soon a peace conference. Switzerland announced on Wednesday that it was organizing a conference “on peace” on Ukraine on June 15 and 16, but without the presence of Russia, which sees it as a project of “American Democrats”. “The idea of organizing a high-level conference to launch the peace process has received sufficient support at the international level,” assured the Swiss government in a press release. “This is a first step in a process for lasting peace.”
- Still no American aid. US President Joe Biden called on the House of Representatives in Washington on Wednesday to immediately vote to release billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine. “The majority of Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly support Ukraine. There must be a vote now,” the president told the press as the leader of the House, Republican Mike Johnson, blocks consideration of this package .
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Seven people were killed on Wednesday April 10 in the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv (north-east) and Odessa (south) during nighttime attacks which hit two energy sites. In the Odessa region, four people died, including a 10-year-old girl, and seven others were injured, Governor Oleg Kiper said. “A man is in serious condition, his lower limbs have been amputated”he said on Telegram, claiming that the region was hit by Russian ballistic missiles.
A few hours earlier, two women and a child had lost their lives in a Russian strike on the Kharkiv region, which is regularly targeted, according to the Interior Ministry, which specifies that two people were also injured. This strike took place on the village of Lyptsi, located around ten kilometers from the Russian border, damaging stores, according to the authorities.
In Russia, three people, including two children, were killed by a Ukrainian drone which targeted a car traveling in a village in the Kursk border region, Governor Roman Starovoit said on Telegram. The Russian army also said it had destroyed five Ukrainian drones during the night above the Russian border region of Bryansk, already targeted the day before by artillery fire which left two dead.
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