Published On 24 Apr 202424 Apr 2024
Here is the situation on Wednesday, April 24, 2024.
Fighting
- Oleksandr Pivnenko, the commander of Ukraine’s National Guard, said Russia was preparing “unpleasant surprises” and could try to advance on the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the second-biggest in the country, in the coming months. Pivnenko said Kyiv’s forces were prepared to thwart any assault.
- Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow would “increase the intensity of attacks on logistics centres and storage bases for Western weapons” in Ukraine, as he claimed advances on the front line in Pervomaiske, Bohdanivka and Novomykhailivka this month.
- At least nine people were injured after a Russian drone attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa, which damaged more than a dozen residential apartments. Four children, including two babies, were among the injured and were taken to hospital.
- Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched a total of 16 attack drones and two short-range Iskander ballistic missiles in the attack, which was also aimed at Kyiv, but all were shot down. One person was injured by falling drone debris in the Mykolaiv region.
- A Russian rocket attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region left four people in hospital, Governor Serhiy Lysak said in a post on Telegram.
- Emergency services in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region said four people travelling in a car north of the town of Melitopol were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack.
- Vladimir Saldo, the Russia-installed governor of occupied parts of the Kherson region, said five people were injured in Ukrainian shelling that hit a market in the town of Kakhovka.