Ukraine targeted with over 230 Russian drones, Zelenskyy blasts US green light for Russian oil

A night-time onslaught successful bluish Ukraine claimed the beingness of a teen and wounded 4 people, the city's subject medication said connected Sunday.

"One idiosyncratic was killed: a 16-year-old boy", Dmytro Bryjynsky, caput of the subject medication of the municipality of Chernihiv, said connected Telegram.

He added that 4 radical were injured successful the attack, which damaged respective homes arsenic good arsenic administrative and schoolhouse buildings.

On Saturday night, Russian forces launched 236 drones against Ukrainian cities, 203 of which were changeable down oregon neutralised by Ukrainian aerial defences. 18 sites were straight hit, and debris besides fell connected 8 different locations.

On the greeting of 19 April, Russian drones deed a taxi successful Kherson and railway infrastructure successful the Poltava region, causing the decease of 1 person.

Kyiv strikes Russian subject targets

On the nighttime of 18 to 19 April, units of the Ukrainian Defence Forces carried retired strikes against respective strategical Russian targets connected temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory and connected Russian territory.

According to the General Staff, a installation belonging to Russia's military-industrial endeavor Atlant Aero (Taganrog, Rostov region) was deed causing a occurrence to interruption out.

The politician of the Rostov region, Yuri Sliusar, confirmed that a rocket onslaught had targeted the region, helium added that 3 radical were being treated by aesculapian services successful Taganrog. Commercial infrastructures were besides deed and a occurrence broke retired successful warehouses, Sliusar, said.

According to Ukrainian outlet Pravda, Atlant Aero oversees the afloat design, accumulation and investigating process for the Molniya reconnaissance and onslaught drones, arsenic good arsenic components for the Orion drone. The latter, which weighs astir 1 tonne, tin transportation a payload of up to 250 kg, including aerial imaging equipment, radio-electronic reconnaissance modules, optoelectronic systems, guided aerial bombs and missiles.

According to ASTRA, an unfastened root quality mean (OSINT), Atlant Aero had already been the unfortunate of attacks successful January and March 2026.

The Ukrainian strikes besides deed a Russian ammunition depot adjacent Trudove, a temporarily occupied country of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region. Equipment and proviso depots were targeted adjacent Mangush, Topoline and Mariupol successful the Donetsk region, arsenic good arsenic successful Zaporizhzhia's Smila. As good as, Tankers adjacent the municipality of Novopoltavka were besides struck.

The Ukrainian subject besides reported that, for the archetypal time, its anti-drone forces had changeable down a 'Shahed' utilizing an interceptor launched from an unmanned aboveground vessel.

Kyiv blasts suspension of sanctions connected Russian oil

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy connected Sunday denounced the hold announced connected Friday of the suspension of US sanctions connected Russian oil, claiming that "every dollar paid for Russian lipid is wealth for Moscow's war" successful Ukraine.

Zelenskyy did not notation the US, but President Donald Trump's medication connected Friday granted a one-month waiver to the sanctions, allowing the merchantability of Russian lipid and petroleum products that were already loaded connected vessels astatine sea.

Zelenskyy said determination were presently much than 110 tankers carrying Russian lipid astatine oversea successful breach of planetary sanctions, carrying much than 12 cardinal tonnes of crude "which, owed to the easing of sanctions, tin again beryllium sold without consequences".

"This represents $10 cardinal - a assets that is being straight converted into caller strikes against Ukraine," Zelenskyy said connected his societal networks.

"This week alone, Russia has launched much than 2,360 drone strikes, much than 1,320 guided aerial bombs and astir 60 missiles," helium added.

According to Zelenskyy, "it is important to forestall Russian lipid tankers from accessing ports and to prohibit them from delivering lipid there. The aggressor's lipid exports indispensable decrease, and Ukraine's semipermanent sanctions proceed to enactment towards this end."

For her part, Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, Olha Stefanishyna, called connected the US medication to reinstate sanctions limiting commercialized successful Russian oil.

"Russia indispensable not beryllium allowed to nett from the actions of its state Iran. We impulse the U.S. medication to reinstate sanctions connected RU lipid & petroleum products", she wrote connected X.

"If Russia sees that destabilisation and fanning the warfare are beneficial, caller problems successful the satellite volition not beryllium agelong successful coming. Notably, the Russian typical has already called the lipid waiver a 'cooperation'."