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Revision as of 19:21, 6 April 2022
April 6, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine offensive
- Battle of Sievierodonetsk
- Russian forces shell Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, setting ten high-rise buildings on fire. (The Guardian)
- Two civilians are reported to have been killed by the Russian military in Vuhledar, Donetsk Oblast. According to Ukrainian authorities five people were injured. (Reuters)
- Battle of Sievierodonetsk
- Eastern Ukraine offensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Afghanistan conflict
- A hand grenade attack hits the Pul-e Khishti Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, injuring at least six people. (Deutsche Welle)
Disasters and accidents
- A violent storm in the United States kills at least two people – one in Georgia, and another in Texas. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- A man rams his vehicle into the fence of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, Romania. The attacker dies after setting himself on fire inside the car. (Gazeta de Cluj) (Reuters)
- Former President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré is found guilty for complicity of murdering the country's first president, Thomas Sankara, and is sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Politics of Israel
- The governing coalition of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett loses its majority in the Knesset after the defection of coalition whip Idit Silman of the Yamina party to the opposition Likud party, raising the possibility of new elections in Israel for the fifth time in four years. (Axios)