On April 21, Russian troops shelled the city of Ukrainsk in Donetsk Oblast with Smerch multiple rocket launchers, killing an 82-year-old woman and injuring four men aged 21 to 53, and damaging six residential buildings.
On Sunday, April 21, Poland is holding a second round of local elections to elect commune heads, mayors and mayors in settlements where none of the candidates received more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
Russian troops dropped guided bombs on a border village in the Kharkiv region, trapping a 56-year-old local resident under the rubble, who was later rescued by emergency services.
On the morning of April 21, explosions were heard in Sevastopol, and the Russian occupiers claimed to have repelled an anti-ship missile attack on one of their ships.
An international delegation of ambassadors and UN representatives visited Kharkiv to see the destruction caused by Russian shelling, and the mayor presented them with a plan to restore the city's heating infrastructure for the coming winter.
As a result of Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region, 2 civilians were killed, 3 others were injured, and residential buildings and infrastructure in about 15 settlements were damaged.
Two people are killed and one hospitalized as a result of a car accident in which a BMW crashed into a tree in Gorokhov, Volyn region.
Russian troops shelled two settlements in the Sumy region of Ukraine at night and in the morning, 11 explosions from artillery fire were recorded.
A Belarusian who worked for the Russians and ordered two Poles to kill Navalny's associate was detained along with the attackers in Poland.
Finland is calling on the EU to take action to help stem the flow of migrants arriving through Russia, accusing Moscow of using migration flows as a weapon.
In the occupied territories of Ukraine, the invaders have created another fake state body, this time to control "education".
The European Central Bank is planning to oblige Italy's UniCredit, the EU's second largest bank in Russia, to drastically reduce its assets in Russia.
The FBI says that hackers linked to the Chinese government have infiltrated critical US infrastructure such as telecommunications, energy and water supply, gaining the ability to potentially cause devastating damage, and are waiting for the right moment to strike.
In Lviv region, a medical worker was detained for issuing fake disability certificates to military personnel for a reward of $7,000,000, involving doctors from various medical institutions.
Partisans from the underground ATES movement conducted reconnaissance of the Russian naval base in Novorossiysk, where most of the Black Sea Fleet ships were redeployed.
Russians attacked four border villages in the Chernihiv region, shelling them with mortars and cannon artillery, resulting in 21 explosions over the past day.
Bosnian Serb members of parliament have adopted a report denying that the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian War was genocide.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards French movie star Alain Delon with the Order of Merit for supporting Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.
Ukraine does not have a plan B and is focused solely on obtaining a powerful aid package from the US Congress, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said after a meeting with G7 foreign ministers.
The Netherlands is not the only country willing to buy Patriot air defense batteries from any country for transfer to Ukraine, and there is intense partnership activity to provide Ukraine with air defense systems to protect it from Russian invasion.
Due to the lack of doctors in the occupied territories of Ukraine, the Russian invaders bring medical teams from remote regions such as Yakutia and Karelia to provide medical services.
At the Podilskyi bridge crossing in Kyiv, the installation of the shallow subway tunnel structures continues: work is underway to build a tunnel under the railroad and install reinforced concrete piles for the tunnel between Zatoka Desenka and Rayduzhna stations.
In the north of Indonesia, the Ruang volcano began to erupt, and more than 11,000 people were evacuated.
Russian diesel exports have been falling for several weeks, by an average of 25%, following recent drone attacks on the country's refineries.
Russia has largely withdrawn its Black Sea Fleet ships and submarines from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk. After the dismissal of the Black Sea Fleet Commander in March 2024, the fleet was the least active since the beginning of the war.
Over the past 45 days, Russian cyber groups have stepped up efforts to spread disinformation and controversial content aimed at influencing the upcoming US presidential election, Microsoft reports.
Germany detained two Russian agents of German-Russian origin who were planning sabotage operations against military infrastructure to undermine support for Ukraine.
The United States warns China of "further steps" if it helps Russia build up its military capabilities and avoid sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
In occupied Lysychansk, a Russian soldier from the Storm Zet unit killed two local residents, and young people from the so-called Luhansk People's Republic are being trained at the state level to spread Russian propaganda.
Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has received $83. 7 billion in financial assistance from international partners.
