What has happened in the last hours
On day 403 since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, these are the top news at 8:00 p.m. this Sunday, April 2, 2023:
Zelensky: “We will do everything possible to restore Ukraine.” The President of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, has dedicated his last message on the Telegram network to the anniversary of the expulsion of Russian troops from the kyiv region. “The first offensives, the first conquests, the first liberated territories”, Zelensky has written. “A year has passed since we drove the invaders out of the kyiv region.”
Ukraine repels more than 70 Russian attacks in 24 hours. The spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrii Kovalev reported this Sunday that in the last 24 hours, his forces have repelled more than 70 attacks in the areas of Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka, on the eastern front of Ukraine. the war, in the Donetsk province. According to Kovalev’s statement, posted on Facebook and collected by the Ukrinform publication, the “enemy” launched two missiles, 30 air strikes, plus another 40 with multiple rocket launchers against the positions of the Ukrainian troops and “the civilian infrastructure of populated areas.” ”.
A well-known pro-Russian blogger is killed in a bomb attack in Saint Petersburg. An attack in the heart of Saint Petersburg has claimed the life of Russian war correspondent and blogger Vladlen Tatarski and injured at least 16 people, according to the Russian Interior Ministry. The attack, which was immediately reminiscent of the explosion that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, last August, took place during a discussion in a cafe-restaurant led by the deceased.
Russia considers “unacceptable” that the US politicizes the arrest of the journalist from the ‘Wall Street Journal’. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, spoke by telephone this Sunday with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and told him that it is “unacceptable” that Washington and the Western media try to politicize the case of the American journalist Evan Gershkovich , arrested Thursday in Russia for alleged espionage, a charge that both he and The Wall Street Journal have rejected.
