LONDON, April 10 (Reuters) – Russian forces continued a series of attacks along a front concentrated in two Ukrainian cities in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine’s military reported, while Kyiv said that it had repelled more than 40 enemy strikes in the past 24 hours.
FIGHTING
* The Ukrainian military reported continued Russian attacks, with the heaviest fighting still focused on two cities in the eastern Donetsk region – Bakhmut and Avdiivka.
* Russia destroyed a depot containing 70,000 tons of fuel near the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, the Russian defense ministry said on Sunday.
* President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced Russian air strikes in conjunction with Orthodox Palm Sunday celebrations, including an attack that killed a father and son at home in the city of Zaporizhzhia.
* Reuters could not verify reports on the battlefield.
LEAKED DOCUMENTS
* Some Western security experts and US officials suspect that highly classified military and intelligence documents have appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine’s air defense to the Mossad spy agency of Israel, may have been leaked by someone from the United States.
POPE’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
* Pope Francis appeared to ask Russians to find the truth about their country’s invasion of Ukraine in his Easter message to the world on Sunday and appealed for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians following the recent violence.
[1/4] A Ukrainian serviceman clears a trench amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine on the frontline near Donetsk, Ukraine, April 8, 2023. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
CHILDREN
* More than 30 children were reunited with their families in Ukraine this weekend after a lengthy operation to bring them home from Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea, where they were taken from areas occupied by Russian forces during the war.
Kyiv estimates that nearly 19,500 children have been taken to Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea since Moscow invaded, in what it condemned as illegal deportations. Moscow says they were removed for their own safety.
DIPLOMACY, TRADE
* Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova is scheduled to visit India on Monday and ask for humanitarian aid and equipment to repair energy infrastructure damaged in the Russian invasion, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
* Russia has threatened to walk away from a UN-brokered grain deal unless it lifts barriers to its farm exports, while talks with Turkey have agreed to lift the barrier is needed to extend the agreement to the next month.
DEATHS DEEP
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