As the war enters its 788th day, here are the main developments.
Here is the situation as of Monday April 22, 2024.
Struggle
- One person was killed and four others injured during Russian shelling on the city of Ukrainsk, according to the prosecutor’s office of the partially occupied Donetsk region. In the Odessa region, four people were injured in a Russian missile attack, Governor Oleh Kiper said.
- The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had taken control of the Bohdanivka settlement in the Donetsk region. Bohdanivka is located just west of the Russian-occupied town of Bakhmut.
- The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in its evening report, mentioned Bohdanivka as one of several villages where, according to it, Ukrainian forces repelled 13 enemy attacks. He gave no specific details.
- Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk said the navy struck and damaged the Kommuna, a Russian rescue ship, in Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea. The Moscow-based governor of Sevastopol said Russian forces had repelled an anti-ship missile attack on one of their ships in the port and there had been a small fire.
Weapons
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a long-delayed bill providing $61 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine and urged the United States to quickly turn the bill into law and to begin the transfer of arms.
- European Union foreign ministers will meet in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss strengthening Ukraine’s air defense.
- Global military spending rose 6.8 percent to a record $2.4 trillion, driven by conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Russia increased its spending by 24%, reaching $109 billion in 2023, according to SIPRI estimates. Ukraine’s military spending increased by 51%, reaching $64.8 billion, while it also received $35 billion in military aid from its allies, mainly the United States.
