Consequences of the shelling of Odessa. Photo: t.me/odesa_prokuratura.
- On the night of Monday, Russian military forces launched a massive strike on Odessa, resulting in the deaths of three people, including a child, and 17 others were injured, local authorities reported.
- The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that the oil loading infrastructure of the "Sheskharis" terminal in Novorossiysk was damaged. Reuters reports that a fire broke out at key Transneft docks following the strike. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that facilities of the "Caspian Pipeline Consortium" were attacked in the port of Novorossiysk. Kazakh authorities noted that this incident did not affect the volume of oil exported from the country.
- Shelling in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region resulted in injuries to nine people, including a one-and-a-half-year-old child and a 17-year-old boy, according to the regional prosecutor's office.
- As a result of drone strikes in the Belgorod region, three people were injured, reported Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
- In Sloviansk, one person was killed as a result of shelling, as reported by the head of the Donetsk regional administration, Vadim Filashkin; five others were injured, including a boy born in 2017.
- In Kharkiv, five people were injured as a result of drone attacks on Monday.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Russia to stop mutual attacks on energy infrastructure. "If Russia is ready to stop strikes on our energy facilities, we are also ready to respond in kind," the president's statement, published on April 6, said. It was also noted that this proposal was conveyed to the Russian side by U.S. representatives.
- Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced that the country's army would provide security for a section of the "Turkish Stream" gas pipeline that runs through Hungary. This decision was made after an explosive device was discovered near the pipeline in Serbia.
- The Governor of the Murmansk region, Chibis, confirmed the information about the death of the commander of the mixed aviation corps of the Northern Fleet of Russia, Lieutenant General Alexander Otrashenko, and other military personnel in the crash of an An-26 in Crimea on March 31.
