Russian drones kill five people, destroy postal terminal in Ukraine
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Russia fired 339 drones at Ukraine overnight, and over 360 drones during the day on April 1, Ukraine's air force said.
PHOTO: X/@ZELENSKYYUA
- Russia launched hundreds of drones at Ukraine on April 1st, killing at least five people. A Nova Poshta warehouse was destroyed in Lutsk.
- President Zelensky reported Russia rejected an Easter ceasefire proposal, responding with "shaheds" (Iranian-designed drones). Over 600 drones were launched that day.
- Russia claimed to have captured two villages in eastern Ukraine and fully occupied the Luhansk region, while Zelensky acknowledged a "quite tense" front line situation.
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KYIV - Russian fired hundreds of drones at Ukraine overnight and during the day on April 1, killing at least five people and destroying a postal terminal, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukraine’s Nova Poshta mailing company published an image showing a warehouse in the western city of Lutsk in flames, thick smoke pouring from its roof.
The attacks came a day after the Kremlin rejected a Ukrainian proposal for a temporary ceasefire over the Easter holiday.
“We proposed a ceasefire for Easter – in response, we’re getting ‘shaheds’,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Facebook, referring to the Iranian-designed drones that Russia uses on Ukraine daily.
In addition to firing 339 drones at Ukraine overnight, Russia launched over 360 drones during the day, the Ukrainian air force said.
A Russian drone killed four people in the central Cherkasy region.
An earlier drone strike on a car in Ukraine’s front-line Kherson region, meanwhile, killed a woman and badly wounded two other people, regional authorities said.
Russia, meanwhile, stepped up pressure on the front line, claiming on April 1 to have taken two villages in eastern Ukraine and fully captured the Luhansk region, which its forces had already largely occupied.
Mr Zelensky described the situation on the front as “quite tense” in a separate social media post.
The Ukrainian leader is expected to hold a video call later on April 1 with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on resuming negotiations with Russia, now frozen due to the war in Iran. AFP
