These are the key events on day 1,149 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is where things stand on Friday, 18 April:
Fighting
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its air defence systems destroyed or intercepted 71 Ukrainian drones over six Russian regions overnight, of which 49 were downed in the Kursk region.
The ministry said it seized the village of Preobrazhensky in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, state news agency TASS reports.
Kyiv’s air force said Russia launched five missiles and 75 drones at Ukraine overnight, out of which 25 were shot down and another 30 did not reach their targets due to electronic warfare measures.
Russian artillery shelling killed two and injured five others in the southern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said.
The death toll from recent Russian mass attacks on Dnipro rose to three while 31 others were injured. At least 15 buildings were also damaged, according to Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov.
A Russian drone attack in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson killed two road workers, the region’s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin said.
Ukraine’s top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, said Ukraine had gained small pockets of land amounting to about 16 square kilometres (6 square miles) near the Ukrainian settlements of Udachne, Kotlyne and Shevchenko, all of which are a short distance from the logistics hub, Pokrovsk.
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Ceasefire
The Russian-installed management of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant said the facility was attacked by Ukrainian drones despite a mutually agreed 30-day moratorium on energy strikes.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Ukraine had violated the agreement daily, claiming a total of 80 str …