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Archive: April 2023
18 articles
What Xi's call to Zelenskyy set in motion
Posted: | Politics
A look back at the phone call between the Chinese and Ukrainian presidents, and at Latvia's pledge of its Stinger missiles a few days earlier.
What happened in Ukraine's security picture on 26 April 2023?
Posted: | Security
A look back at two incidents reported in the days before 26 April 2023: a missile strike in Kupiansk and a drone attack on Sevastopol.
What Kupiansk and Sevastopol showed by 26 April 2023
Posted: | Security
Two incidents in the days before 26 April 2023 pointed to pressure on a front-line city and on Crimea.
Diplomacy and arms in Ukraine, April 2023
Posted: | Politics
A look back at how Kyiv's diplomatic friction with Brazil, Moscow's show of presence in occupied areas and new Latvian arms pledges fitted together in the days before 23 April 2023.
What Putin's rare trip to occupied Ukraine signalled
Posted: | Security
A look back at reports of a visit by Russia's president to occupied Kherson and Luhansk oblasts, and the death of a former Ukrainian lawmaker in combat.
What Putin's rare trip to occupied Ukraine signalled
Posted: | Security
A look back at the Russian president's visit to occupied Kherson and Luhansk oblasts, reported on 18 April 2023, and a notable Ukrainian death in combat.
What the April 2023 front-line signals showed
Posted: | Security
A presidential visit to occupied territory, a jet transfer and a combat death marked the days around 19 April 2023.
What Putin's rare trip to occupied Ukraine signalled
Posted: | Security
A retrospective on 19 April 2023 and the events of the preceding two days: a visit to occupied territory, a jet transfer and a combat death.
Kyiv's invitation to Lula as Putin toured occupied areas
Posted: | Politics
On 18 April 2023, Ukraine's government invited Brazil's president to visit while Russia's president travelled to occupied Kherson and Luhansk oblasts.
Sloviansk strike and the leaked Pentagon files
Posted: | Security
A retrospective on 14 April 2023, when a missile strike killed civilians in Donetsk Oblast while Washington dealt with a leak of classified war documents.
What did 14 April 2023 reveal about the war?
Posted: | Opinion
A deadly missile strike on Sloviansk came as the fallout from leaked U.S. documents on the war continued to unfold.
What the Pentagon leaks exposed by 13 April 2023
Posted: | Security
A look back at the state of the leaked US documents inquiry as of 13 April 2023, and what had been confirmed by then.
What the April 2023 Pentagon leaks exposed
Posted: | Opinion
A retrospective on the classified-document leaks that confirmed Ukrainian military vulnerabilities while Russian strikes continued on the ground.
Kyiv's Crimea signal and the Warsaw visit
Posted: | Politics
A look back at two political messages from Ukraine in early April 2023: talks on Crimea if a counteroffensive reached its border, and a decoration in Poland.
Would Kyiv talk about Crimea? April 2023 signal
Posted: | Politics
A look back at 6 April 2023, when a senior Ukrainian official set out a condition for negotiations over the peninsula, a day after Zelenskyy's Polish visit.
What did Finland's NATO entry change by 5 April 2023?
Posted: | Security
A look back at the security picture around 5 April 2023, after Finland's accession and as Bakhmut remained contested.
Who controlled Bakhmut on 3 April 2023?
Posted: | Security
Competing claims over the eastern Ukrainian city emerged as news spread of a deadly bombing in Saint Petersburg.
What did 2 April 2023 bring to the war's edges?
Posted: | Opinion
A bombing in Saint Petersburg and diplomatic moves in the days before marked the period around 2 April 2023.