These are the key events of day 1 150 of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Here is where things are on Saturday April 19:
Struggle
- Russia launched eight missiles and 87 drones in a night attack on Ukraine on Saturday, causing damage in five regions across the country, said Ukrainian Air Force. Air defense units shot 33 Russian drones while 36 others were redirected by the electronic war. Damage has been recorded in five southern, northeast and east regions.
- A Russian missile attack killed a person in Kharkiv, while a drone attack killed another in Sumy, with at least five children among dozens of injured. The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, said that 15 residential buildings, a company and an educational establishment have been damaged in the attack.
- The city of Zaporizhzhia was struck by a Russian drone overnight. Regional governor Ivan Fedorov reported that Telegram’s attack, saying that a fire had broken out and that emergency services responded.
- Russia has claimed to have targeted the production sites of Ukrainian drones and warned of climbing if Germany sends long -range missiles of the bull, calling it a step towards direct involvement in the war.
Politics and diplomacy
- The United States has presented a proposal to end the war in Ukraine, which includes Russian lifting sanctions, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous European officials. The American plan “would effectively” freeze “the conflict, with the report invading Ukrainian territory under Russian control, according to the report.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed NATO head Mark Rutte, but warned that Washington “will drop” if a cease-fire agreement does not seem viable in a few days.
- President Donald Trump later warned that the United States “Take a pass” By mediating peace if Moscow or Kyiv continue to hinder progress towards the end of the war.
- Russia and Ukraine will exchange 246 prisoners each on Saturday in an agreement negotiated by the United Arab Emirates. The swap, the 13th mediated by Abu Dhabi, will increase a growing list of exchanges since 2022 and provides the total number of captives exchanged at 3,233.
- A Russian court sentenced the 19-year-old activist, Daria Kozyreva, to two years and eight months in prison for having pretended to “discredit” the army through anti-war graffiti and citing Ukrainian poetry of the 19th century. Amnesty International condemned the verdict as a “frightening” attack on peaceful dissent and called for the immediate release of Kozyreva.