A court has sentenced a Russian informant to eight years in prison for tracking the temporary deployment sites of aviation units and flight schedules of combat helicopters of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Sumy region.
There have been 213 combat engagements along the frontline, with the heaviest fighting in the Pokrovsk sector, where Russian forces carried out nearly 50 attacks on Ukrainian positions and lost more than 130 troops.
During the planning of defensive operations in the Kyiv region, the biggest problem at the initial stage was organizing communication between different units, which used radios operating on different frequencies.
Retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg has called on the United States to create a new defense alliance that could include Ukraine, citing NATO’s ineffectiveness in the war with Iran.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on the parties to the conflict in the Middle East to immediately cease hostilities, warning of the risk of the war expanding across the entire Middle East with serious global consequences.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine continues to work with states that are under attack by the Iranian regime, noting that new agreements have been reached under which Ukraine will have a greater presence in emerging security formats.
On the afternoon of April 2, Russian forces struck Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region with four FAB-250 aerial bombs equipped with universal guidance and correction modules, injuring nine civilians.
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka stated that there are several sectors in which cooperation between Ukraine and the Netherlands appears to be the most promising and mutually beneficial.
Since the beginning of the day, Russian forces have attacked positions of Ukraine’s defenders 127 times. The enemy is concentrating their main efforts on the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.