By Olivier Acuña Barba •
Revealed: 27 Apr 2025 • 16:35
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has demonstrated no will to finish the warfare in Ukraine, and, ignoring Donald Trump’s plea to cease killing civilians, his armed forces launched almost 150 drones in a single day into Sunday, killing a minimum of 4 folks.
Three folks died and 4 had been injured in airstrikes on Kostyantynivka within the Donetsk area, AP reported. A fourth particular person was killed and a teenage woman wounded in a drone assault in Pavlohrad within the Dnipropetrovsk area, which was attacked for the third evening in a row, the locality’s Governor Serhii Lysak mentioned.
On the Vatican proper earlier than Pope Francis’ funeral, Trump mentioned he doubted Putin’s will to finish the greater than three-year warfare in Ukraine. The US president’s assertion got here simply two days after providing uncommon criticism of Putin, through which he additionally urged his counterpart to cease.
“I’m not pleased with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not crucial, and really unhealthy timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 troopers every week are dying.” Trump mentioned in a publish on his Fact Social platform. “Let’s get the Peace Deal DONE!”
Russia shoots down 5 drones, causes 1k casualties
Russia’s Defence Ministry on Sunday reported that its air defences shot down 5 Ukrainian drones within the border area of Bryansk and three extra over the Crimea, which Moscow annexed illegally in 2014.
In accordance with Russia’s state-owned TASS information company, Russian forces have killed almost 1,000 Ukrainian troopers within the final 24 hours.
“Over the previous 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces have misplaced as much as 250 servicemen within the Battlegroup South’s accountability zone. They’ve inflicted losses on the manpower and gear of six mechanised brigades,” the company mentioned, quoting ministry officers.
The company reported 235 extra casualties within the western area of Ukraine, the place they “defeated formations of two mechanized, airmobile, assault brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces and three territorial protection brigades.”
“The Ukrainian armed forces misplaced as much as 145 extra servicemen” within the northern battle entrance, TASS added.
The losses in that area embody “concentrations of manpower and gear of the mechanized, tank, two airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces, and a protection brigade.” TASS mentioned Ukrainian forces misplaced 140 extra troopers and gear within the jap warfare entrance.
Son of CIA official died preventing for Russia
Michael Gloss, the son of a senior Central Intelligence Company (CIA) official, Juliane Gallina, died final yr “whereas preventing within the battle in Ukraine,” a CIA spokesperson confirmed, NBC information confirmed.
The Wall Road Journal quoted a CIA supply as saying that Gloss was killed final yr throughout a Ukrainian offensive within the Donetsk area after indicators that he had grow to be more and more disillusioned with the US and joined the Russian army.
In social media posts final yr, Gloss shared a photograph of himself smiling in Moscow’s Pink Sq. and expressed sympathy for Russia’s warfare effort in opposition to what he referred to as “the Ukraine Proxy warfare.”
Gloss’s mom, Gallina, was appointed final yr to her present place on the CIA and has held senior roles overseeing know-how and cybersecurity.