Did you miss the most recent occasions on the conflict in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes inventory for you each night. Right here is the gist of this Sunday, April 19, 2026, on the 1,516th day of the battle.
Truth of the day
A 16-year-old boy was killed throughout an assault within the city of Chernihiv, within the northern Ukrainestated native administration head Dmytro Bryjynsky on Sunday. “4 individuals had been additionally injured: three ladies and a person,” the official wrote on Telegram, reporting the strikes which broken 7 homes, in addition to two public buildings. The town’s vitality infrastructure has been hit laborious by a number of rounds of assaults this week, leaving thousands of residents without electricityin response to native authorities.
Right this moment’s assertion
« The continued easing of sanctions in opposition to Russia doesn’t mirror the true scenario within the conflict or in diplomacy and fuels the phantasm of the Russian management that they’ll proceed the conflict (…) Each greenback paid for Russian oil is cash for conflict. »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced on Sunday the extension introduced Friday of the suspension of American sanctions on Russian oil. The US Division of the Treasury briefly prolonged on Friday, till Could 16, the suspension of nearly all of sanctions focusing on the Russian oil business within the context of the vitality disaster attributable to the conflict within the Center East triggered by the Israeli-American strikes in opposition to Iran on February 28.
The quantity
2.360. That is the variety of drone assaults launched Russia this week. Greater than 1,320 guided aerial bombs and practically 60 missiles had been additionally launched.
The development
Ukraine’s Inside Minister introduced that two law enforcement officials, accused of fleeing the scene of Saturday’s capturing in kyiv, which left six individuals lifeless, have been suspended and are being investigated into their conduct. On Saturday, a person opened hearth in a residential space of the capital earlier than taking refuge, after taking hostages, in a close-by grocery store, the place he was lastly shot lifeless by the police.
A video exhibiting two officers in uniform and yellow vests standing close to an individual on the bottom, then beginning to run as gunshots ring out, leaving them alone, has provoked anger in Ukraine. “It’s a disgrace for the complete system. They’ve been suspended and an investigation is underway,” Inside Minister Igor Klymenko stated in an announcement on Telegram on Sunday. The Ukrainian prosecutor’s workplace introduced the opening of a legal investigation into their conduct.
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The 2 officers “didn’t assess the scenario accurately and left injured civilians at risk,” stated the top of the Patrol Police Division, Yevgenyi Zhukov, throughout a press convention on Sunday. He submitted his resignation.
