Cover photo: Launch of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile at the Plesetsk test site, Russia (video released by the Russian Ministry of Defense on April 20, 2022). HANDOUT / AFP
- Ukraine says the drone attack on Pskov airport was launched from Russian territory. This is the first time that Ukrainian authorities have claimed responsibility for an attack of this kind carried out directly from Russian soil.
- New drone strikes in Moscow and Kursk oblasts have been foiled, according to Russian authorities. “According to initial information, there were no injuries or damage,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin assured on Telegram on Friday.
- Sumy Oblast came under fire from Russian forces on Thursday. According to the Ukrainian regional military administration, the Russian army bombed this border region in northern Ukraine 27 times, causing 167 explosions.
- Russia is strengthening its defenses around the Crimean Bridge. In his daily bulletin she writes British Ministry of Defense explains that the Russians combine elements of “passive defense, such as smoke generators and underwater barriers, as well as active defense measures, such as air defense systems” to maintain the security of this axis.
- Moscow is organizing local elections in the occupied territories to strengthen its control there. Pro-Russian authorities in regions of Ukraine claimed by Moscow last year launched local elections on Thursday, hoping to bolster Russia’s authority in its “new territories” despite the conflict.
- Vladimir Putin will host Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, Russia, on Monday. The Turkish President is received by the Russian President to first discuss grain exports via the Black Sea.
- Ukraine announces that two new cargo ships have left the port of Pivdennyin the west of the city of Yuzhne, 30 kilometers east of Odessa, and sail in the Black Sea in a maritime corridor established by Kiev, despite Russian threats of reprisals against these boats.
- Russia announces the entry into service of the Sarmat missile. Yuri Borisov, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, announced that the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of carrying at least ten nuclear warheads, have been put into service.
- A British fighter in Ukraine has been killed in the east of the country. Samuel Newey, 22, from Solihull, a suburb of Nottingham, was killed in Ukraine.
- Back to school in Ukraine: 1,300 schools were “completely destroyed”. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the school and educational careers of Ukrainian children are at risk after two years of pandemic and subsequent Russian invasion.
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