You missed the newest occasions on the war in Ukraine ? 20 Minutes takes inventory for you each night. Right here is the gist of this Monday, April 13, 2026, on the 1,510th day of the battle.
Reality of the day
Two days after the defeat of Viktor Orbán within the legislative elections in Hungary, there’s already much less water within the fuel between Budapest and kyiv. Witness, the announcement constructed from Berlin by Volodymyr Zelensky with reference to the Druzhba oil pipeline, broken since January in its Ukrainian half and which permits Hungary to be provided with Russian oil: “Concerning the oil pipeline, as we promised, by the top of April it is going to be repaired – not utterly, however sufficient to perform”, declared the Ukrainian president, hoping that the brand new Prime Minister Péter Hungarian will in return carry his nation’s veto on a European mortgage of 90 billion euros supposed for kyiv.
Right now’s assertion
« No military in Europe has been (…) as examined in fight as Ukraine. No society has grow to be extra resilient than Ukraine, no protection business has grow to be extra progressive than Ukraine’s. »
The German Chancellor Friedrich Merzwho obtained Volodymyr Zelensky, justified with these phrases the billions of euros in help dropped at kyiv by Europe, which in response to him can be threatened in the long run by the Russia of Vladimir Poutine.
The quantity
4 deaths. No less than. The provisional evaluation of a Russian strike this Tuesday morning on Dnipro, a city positioned round 100 kilometers from the jap entrance. The offensive additionally injured 25 individuals, 10 of whom are in critical situation. On the Russian aspect, a Ukrainian drone assault killed a lady within the Lipetsk area, about 350 kilometers south of Moscow.
The pattern
Forty years after the accident TchernobylGreenpeace is anxious in a report launched this Tuesday concerning the state of the nuclear energy plant’s containment enclosure. The latter was perforated in February 2025 by a Russian drone and, regardless of additional repairs, the NGO says that its containment perform couldn’t be “absolutely restored”. “This will increase the danger of radioactivity being launched into the atmosphere, significantly within the occasion of collapse” of the interior envelope, warns Greenpeace. “It will be catastrophic as a result of there are 4 tons of mud, extremely radioactive mud, gas pellets and big quantities of radioactivity contained in the sarcophagus,” Shaun Burnie, a nuclear specialist at Greenpeace Ukraine, just lately advised AFP.
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Based on the NGO, deconstruction of the unstable parts of the interior enclosure is critical to keep away from an uncontrolled collapse. However the work is made sophisticated as a result of conflict as a result of “Russian missiles are nonetheless fired above Chernobyl”.
