History: April 2025
12 articles
Retrospective · events of 8 April 2025
What did 8 April 2025 follow in the region?
World
A look back at two developments reported on 2 April 2025 that framed the days before 8 April 2025.
Retrospective · events of 8 April 2025
What did 8 April 2025 reveal about the front?
Opinion
A retrospective on the day Ukraine's president confirmed troops inside Belgorod Oblast, as Russian forces pressed into Sumy Oblast and Kryvyi Rih mourned.
Retrospective · events of 10 April 2025
Video of executed prisoners surfaced on 10 April 2025
Security
A leaked recording verified by the Associated Press added to a day of war reporting that also covered a new Russian offensive and Ukrainian troops in Belgorod Oblast.
Retrospective · events of 13 April 2025
Sumy on Palm Sunday: missiles strike city centre
Security
A look back at the Russian ballistic missile attack that killed at least 35 people in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.
Retrospective · events of 16 April 2025
What happened in Ukraine's security news on 16 April 2025?
Security
A retrospective on a drone attack on Dnipro, a governor's dismissal in Sumy Oblast and a UK funding transfer in the days around 16 April 2025.
Retrospective · events of 18 April 2025
What Rubio's "matter of days" warning signalled
Opinion
A look back at the US ultimatum on Ukraine peace talks, set against a deadly drone attack on Dnipro two days earlier.
Retrospective · events of 22 April 2025
Could US diplomacy on Ukraine end within days?
Security
A look back at the security picture around 22 April 2025, shaped by a US ultimatum on peace talks and a deadly drone attack on Dnipro.
Retrospective · events of 23 April 2025
What the Marhanets bus strike left behind
Security
A retrospective on a drone attack in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the diplomatic backdrop of that week.
Retrospective · events of 23 April 2025
Bus strike in Marhanets amid stalling peace push
Security
A drone attack on a bus in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast came days after Washington signalled it could walk away from talks.
Retrospective · events of 27 April 2025
What happened on 27 April 2025 in Puźniki?
Security
A look back at the start of a Polish excavation of a wartime mass grave, days after a car bombing near Moscow.
Retrospective · events of 29 April 2025
What Yanukovych was convicted of in absentia
Politics
A Kyiv-era verdict over 2014 events and a three-day Victory Day truce declared by Moscow were both announced on 28 April.
Retrospective · events of 30 April 2025
What did 30 April 2025 reveal about Russia's war?
Opinion
A look back at reports from late April 2025 on North Korean losses, a announced ceasefire and a court verdict against a former president.