As the war enters its 802nd day, these are the key developments.
This is the situation on Monday, May 6, 2024.
Fighting
At least one person has been killed and 24 injured in Russian drone and bomb attacks on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region. Power cuts were also reported.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched 24 Shahed attack drones and 23 were shot down.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces had captured the village of Ocheretyne in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The village had a population of around 3,000 people before Russia began its full-scale invasion. There were no comments from Ukrainian officials and no mention of Ocheretyne in the evening report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
Drone footage obtained by the Associated Press news agency showed the village devastated by fighting and no people on the street. No building in Ocheretyne appeared to have been untouched by the fighting.
Politics and diplomacy
Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in France for a state visit during which French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to press him on the war in Ukraine.
In a video to mark Orthodox Easter, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on his fellow Ukrainians to unite in prayer for each other and for the country’s soldiers on the front lines. God, he said, has a “Ukrainian flag on his shoulder” and with “such an ally… life will certainly overcome death.”
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