Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced preparations to open four more embassies in African countries to increase Russia’s political and ideological influence in the region.
Police dismantled a transnational drug trafficking channel from the European Union to Ukraine, operated by a group of five individuals who were earning nearly UAH 10 million monthly.
Operators of the 1st Separate Center of the Unmanned Systems Forces have destroyed a Russian Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system in temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.
Russian forces attacked Ukrainian defensive positions 134 times since the beginning of the day. The enemy is most active in the Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk sectors, with increased activity in the Huliaipole sector.
Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, during a working visit to the Zakarpattia region, toured the new production facilities of the pharmaceutical company Biopharma.
Fighters of the Strix unmanned systems unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine eliminated Russian infantry in the Belgorod direction and also struck a mobile enemy fire group along with its crew.
Ukraine’s withdrawal from the Donetsk region cannot be considered a compromise, as it would ultimately give Russia the opportunity to occupy Kharkiv and Dnipro.
Across all regions of Ukraine, on Friday, April 10, scheduled hourly electricity outages will be applied throughout the entire day for all categories of consumers.
The Russian army carried out almost 60 attacks on the Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Pavlohrad districts of Dnipropetrovsk region, resulting in two casualties.
Kyrylo Budanov said that attacks on Russian oil terminals affect the negotiation process and predicted that "a lot of new things" will be heard from the Russian side at the next round of talks.