Portal:Current events/2022 April 6
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
- 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
- Russia says that it will end their invasion if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agrees to conditions set during negotiations. Russia also says that it halted operations in Kyiv as a “goodwill gesture” to promote peace talks. (Hindustan Times)
- 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)
- Iraqi conflict
- Three missiles fall near an oil refinery in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. There is no damage and no one is killed or injured. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- American writer and media critic Eric Boehlert is killed in a bicycle accident with a NJ Transit train near Montclair, New Jersey. (The Washington Post)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
- U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo tests positive for COVID-19 after attending the Gridiron Club in Washington, D.C. Several other attendees also tested positive. (NBC News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Law and crime
- A man sets himself on fire and rams his vehicle into the fence of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, Romania. (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)
- Poland arrests two citizens of Belarus on charges of spying for Minsk. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- The governing coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett loses its majority in the Knesset after coalition whip Idit Silman of the Yamina party defected to the opposition Likud party, raising the possibility of new elections in Israel for the fifth time in four years. (Axios)
- One Sudanese protester is shot dead on Wednesday as security forces confront anti-coup demonstrations in the state of Khartoum. (Reuters)