Umerov discussed the situation at the front and the urgent military needs of the Ukrainian army with Japanese Defense Minister Kihara, thanking Japan for its comprehensive support against Russian aggression.
A Russian airstrike on civilian infrastructure and a residential area in Sumy wounded three people and damaged buildings.
A 48-year-old man was wounded in a Russian drone attack on a residential building in Novoberislav, Kherson region.
The Ukrainian Air Force warned of a missile threat in the direction of Kryvyi Rih and enemy tactical aircraft activity in the east.
The European Investment Bank and the Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine have signed an agreement to provide an additional €5 million grant to modernize Ukrainian hospitals and repair war damage.
The Netherlands has allocated one billion euros for military aid to Ukraine and 400 million euros for reconstruction, as discussed during a telephone conversation between Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Since April 2022, National Police pilots have made more than 7,000 evacuation flights and rescued more than 2,500 people using helicopters equipped as medical vehicles.
At least 3 people were injured in a Russian missile attack on a residential building in Konstantinovka, Donetsk region.
The Russian army conducted an air strike on Sumy's civilian infrastructure on April 12, but according to preliminary reports, there were no casualties.
Five civilians are killed in a Russian missile attack on Mykolaiv. April 13 is declared a Day of Mourning in the region.
Explosions have been heard in Sumy, Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force had previously warned of the launch of guided bombs in the region.
As a result of Russian shelling of Kupyansk district, Kharkiv region, one person was killed and two others were wounded in the villages of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi and Monachynivka.
Belgian authorities have launched an investigation into a Moscow-funded influence network in the European Parliament that paid MEPs to promote the Russian agenda. The network was uncovered by Czech and Polish intelligence agencies on the eve of the European Parliament elections.
Russian troops strike Ukrainian thermal power plants with missiles containing components from Western and Asian countries.
A collaborator who posed as a monk and blessed Russian tanks during the battles near Kyiv was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
EU leaders will discuss the supply of air defense systems, including Patriot batteries, to Ukraine at the upcoming summit in Brussels on April 17-18.
Israel is preparing for a possible Iranian attack in the next two days, although Tehran has not yet made a final decision.
This year, regions close to the war zone will receive UAH 2. 5 billion from the state budget to build shelters in schools.
The Ukrainian government has allocated an additional UAH 3. 88 billion for the further construction of defense borders, primarily in Kharkiv and Sumy regions, including UAH 1.7 billion for Kharkiv and UAH 1.5 billion for Sumy.
Ukraine's representative to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said that Putin and Hitler's regimes share the same toxic DNA, drawing parallels between Hitler's appeasement, which led to World War II, and Putin's attempts to appease from 2014 to 2022.
The Ukrainian government has established an additional payment of UAH 70,000 for military and police officers performing combat missions on the front line. The one-time payment will be charged for every 30 days of such missions.
New letters with the inscription "Heroes of Ukraine Square" have been installed at the renamed Kyiv subway station: one set of 26 characters out of the four required has been completed.
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations calls on the Security Council to stop the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russia as a matter of priority.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted a resolution on a UAH 70,000 supplemental payment to servicemen serving on the front line.
Since the beginning of this year, Russia has launched nearly 1,000 missiles, about 2,800 drones and about 7,000 guided bombs into Ukraine, targeting civilian infrastructure and causing significant damage to energy facilities.
A Kyiv resident was sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing his friend during a drunken political argument and stealing his belongings.
In one of the correctional colonies in Zhytomyr region, an FSB agent recruited prisoners to help Russian subversive groups in northern Ukraine.
Four drones attacked the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in the Rostov region of Russia at night, one of them crashed on the plant's territory.
A 46-year-old resident of Krasnohorivka was wounded and 39 civilian objects were damaged as a result of Russian shelling of 12 localities in Donetsk region.
Five men aged 20 to 40 were served suspicion notices for attempting to illegally cross the Ukrainian-Romanian border under the guise of Red Cross representatives using forged documents and uniforms.
