Targeting a residential building in Odessa, Russia continues to bomb Ukraine

The attack was carried out during a period when diplomatic efforts are continuing to ensure a ceasefire to the war in Ukraine following Russia's unprotested invasion in 2022.

The chairman of the Odessa municipality, Hennadiya Trukhani, wrote on social networks on 22 April that many apartments have been damaged and that “residents are in shock. ”

Emergency services published photos and videos of fire crews fighting fires in what was described as civilian infrastructure.

Over the country, Ukraine's Air Force reported dozens of overnight attacks.

A statement said that “38 fears Shahed have collapsed east, north, south and centre of the country”. It was also said that 16 other fears have been captured, followed. Periscope.

The attacks came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that his forces were attacking civilian boundaries in Ukraine.

Speaking on April 21st of an attack on the northern town of Sumi last week, where 35 people were killed, he said the target was a civilian building but that soldiers were there.

After the attack, the head of the Ukrainian local military administration was dismissed following charges that he had organised a military decoration ceremony in the city.

On 22 April, authorities in Kiev also reported home damage and vehicles following the night attacks by Russia. But, the head of the regional military administration, Mykola Kalashnyk, said no measures of critical infrastructure had been hit.

Six private houses, four cars, three assistant buildings and three garages were damaged as a result of an enemy attack. There has also been a fire at a building site”, he wrote on the telegram.

Later, air alarm sirens were again heard amid new reports of the presence of Russian fears.

Russia also carried out extensive missile attacks Monday in Easter on 21 April, following the end of a 30-hour ceasefire declared by it. Kiev claimed Russian forces violated the ceasefire 3,000 times.

On April 22nd, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot dismissed the ceasefire as a <x0 malcommercing” by Putin, who was primarily targeting American President Donald Trump, who has expressed irritability for continuing the Russian attacks, as he postpones diplomatic efforts to reach a ceasefire.

The Easter truce, which was announced somewhat unexpectedly, was a marketing operation, a handsome operation aimed at preventing the impatience and anger of President Trump”, Barrot was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency on FranceInfo television.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Syhbiza said he had talked to Barrot the night before to coordinate positions ahead of a meeting in London on 23 April.

The meeting in London aims to bring together Britain, France, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, after a meeting in Paris on April 18th, the first joint talks in this form since taking office from Trump.

Barrot told FranceInfo that European countries used that meeting to communicate to Washington their red lines for a deal. Trump has said he hopes an agreement will be concluded this week, which many observers see as overly ambitious.

But, as another sign that diplomacy is gaining momentum, Putin said on April 21st he was ready for direct talks with Zelensky something he had recently rejected.

This was met with scepticism by Ukrainian political analyst Ihor Reiterovich, who told Radio Time Free Europe that it was “standard buffer an attempt to present Russia as a peacekeeping force, which actually seems highly cynical”. /REL/