Three people were killed during Russian bombings in the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia, already the victim of deadly strikes the day before, local authorities announced on Monday April 8. “Three people were killed and three others injured“, said the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration, Ivan Federov, on the social network Telegram on Monday. According to him, Russian forces struck eight populated areas in the region “357 times” in the last 24 hours.
On Sunday, three people had already been killed in Russian strikes in the region, according to Ukrainian authorities. Russia has partly occupied the Zaporizhia region since its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Follow our live stream.
The anti-aircraft defense claims to have shot down 17 drones during the night. According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian army, anti-aircraft defense shot down 17 drones out of 24 launched by Russian forces during the night from Sunday to Monday.
Moscow assures that Ukrainian drones attacked the territory of the Zaporizhia power plant. “Ukrainian armed forces attacked the dome of reactor No. 6 of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant”, the management of the plant, occupied for two years by Russia, said on social networks on Sunday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on X that its experts had “confirmed the physical impacts of drone attacks at the Zaporizhzhia power plant today, including on one of its six reactors”without attributing them by name to Ukraine.
Ukraine “will lose the war” without help from the United States, kyiv warns. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned again on Sunday that his country would lose the war against Russia if American aid of 60 billion dollars remained blocked in Congress due to Republican opposition. “If Congress doesn’t help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war”insisted the leader during a videoconference exchange with ambassadors of the government fundraising platform, United24.