WAR IN UKRAINE: April 11, 2023

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 412

  • EU development aid helped drive up official development assistance to Ukraine in 2019-2020. In 2021, only 6% of ODA funded humanitarian aid, a figure that will have soared in 2022 following Russia’s war of aggression.

  • Russia and Ukraine carried out a major prisoner swap on April 10 after the commander of the Ukrainian armed forces in the east accused Russia of using "scorched earth tactics" in the area, turning the town of Avdiyivka into a "total ruin."

  • The online leaks of highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine present a “very serious" risk to national security, and senior leaders are taking steps to mitigate the damage, Pentagon spokesman Chris Meagher said on April 10.

  • A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were among at least five killed in weekend shelling by Russian forces in northeastern and southern regions of Ukraine - RFE/RL

  • 24 kidnapped children from Kherson Oblast returned to Ukraine. Twenty-four Ukrainian children from Kherson Oblast who had been illegally deported by Russia returned home on April 10, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported - Kyiv Independent

  • Belarus is asking for security guarantees from Moscow. The president of the country, which is hosting a contingent of Russian troops, wants assurances that Russia would defend Belarus if it was attacked - VOA

  • Russian official claims that 75% of Bakhmut has been seized. The ongoing battle for the besieged city has been one of the bloodiest in the 13-month war.

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