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- The company Quantum Frontline Industries (QFI), a German-Ukrainian joint venture, has successfully completed the production of the first batch of Linza drones, which will soon be handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This marks a significant step within the Build with Ukraine initiative aimed at expanding military equipment production in Europe.
- Igor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, reported three strikes carried out by Russian troops using ballistic weapons on the Kyiv district of the city.
- In Kharkiv on Thursday evening, Russian forces conducted a series of attacks using combat drones, resulting in damage in four districts, including a store building and a private house, as well as causing a fire in a four-story building. As a result of these events on April 2, at least seven people were injured.
- Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, stated that during the evening and night of April 2, at least two drones were shot down on the approaches to the city.
- According to the head of Bashkortostan, Ukrainian drones attacked oil refineries in Ufa, leading to a fire (exact details of the incident location are not specified).
- As a result of a drone strike on a multi-story residential building in Ufa, a fire also broke out, damaging several apartments. Fortunately, it is reported that there are no casualties.
- On Wednesday afternoon, several Ukrainian regions were attacked by drones and ballistic missiles, with casualties reported in Chernihiv and Kherson, and injuries recorded in Kharkiv.
- Authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk region reported one death as a result of shelling in the frontline city of Synelnykove.
- The "Russian" compressor station in the Krasnodar region was attacked by drones on the night of April 2, as reported by RBC citing Gazprom's press service. According to the company, the attack was successfully repelled.
- In Germany, customs authorities conducted searches at three companies in the Rhine-Main region, suspecting them of supplying prohibited goods to Russia worth millions of euros.
- According to Financial Times sources, U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to halt arms supplies to Ukraine to pressure European allies into forming a coalition to resume operations in the Strait of Hormuz.
