As the war between Russia and Ukraine enters its 404th day, we take a look at the major developments.
Here’s what happened on Monday, April 3, 2023:
diplomacy
- The European Union said it would prevent any abuse during Russia’s presidency of the UN Security Council in April.
- Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany has criticized former high-ranking politicians of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the country’s labor movement for appealing for peace talks with Russia.
- The U.S. State Department said that Secretary of State Antony Brinken made a rare phone call to Russian Secretary of State Sergey Lavrov since the start of the Ukraine war, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovic. He said he urged the Americans to be released immediately.
- US basketball star Britney Griner, who was released from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange last year, has told the White House that she will use “any means possible” to win the release of Gerszkovic, who was detained on suspicion of spying in Russia. asked to continue using
- The president of the Russian Fencing Federation said Russia will not send fencers to the Olympic qualifying event in Poland this month due to “unacceptable” conditions.
Finding
- Prominent Russian military blogger Vladren Tatarsky died Sunday in an explosion in a cafe in Russia’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg.
- Pro-Russian Ukrainian officials blamed Kiev for the explosion, but Ukrainian officials speculated that internal Russian opposition to the Kremlin invasion was to blame.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the military situation around the city of Bakhmut, which had been besieged by Russian forces for months, was “especially hot”.
- According to Zelensky’s government chief of staff Andriy Yermak, six civilians were killed and eight wounded in the Russian shelling of the industrial town of Kostyantinivka in eastern Ukraine.
- Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, has outlined a series of steps the government in Kiev will take after the country regains control of Crimea.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Britain will be forced to respond if it supplies armor-piercing ammunition containing depleted uranium to Ukraine.
- Meanwhile, the UK Ministry of Defense said excessive alcohol consumption was responsible for many deaths of Russian troops in Ukraine.
economic
- Russia has announced it will extend an oil production cut of 500,000 barrels per day until the end of the year in response to Western sanctions that were due to expire at the end of June.
