Zelenskyy says Ukrainian interceptors downed Iran drones in the Middle East
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy previously announced that 228 Ukrainian experts had been deployed to the region.

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy previously announced that 228 Ukrainian experts had been deployed to the region.



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Ukraine increases attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure in bid to disrupt financing of its war.
Ukraine aims to drain Russia’s war chest with drone strikes on Pokrovsk and Ust-Luga oil facilities on the Baltic Sea.
During a trip to Damascus, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the two countries agreed to work together.
The US and Israel have repeatedly hit the plant, raising risks of radioactive contamination far beyond Iran’s borders.
Fuel leaks at Primorsk, and NORSI oil refinery catches fire, Russian authorities say.
At least one person is killed in a Ukrainian attack on southern Russia’s Rostov region.

Russia has unleashed a massive round of deadly air strikes across Ukraine, in a so-called “Easter escalation.”
Ukraine achieves significant victories on the battlefield thanks to burgeoning drone production.

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No immediate comment from Ukraine on Kremlin’s claim of advance in part of larger industrial Donbas area.