The families of those killed in Bucha remembered them at a ceremony.
Mourners piled up with flowers at the city’s cemetery to pay their respects.
What about Bucha?
Bucha is a city about 26 km northwest of Kyiv, in the Greater Kyiv region.
Following the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kyiv and the surrounding region, the scale of civilian casualties was highlighted, with corpses and mass graves appearing there.
The Bucha photographs drew foreign condemnation.
A Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure in Ukraine’s western Lviv region killed one man, he said.
The attack destroyed a building and sparked a fire, Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi wrote on Telegram.
Rescue operations continue.
In the Kharkiv region, an airstrike killed a 19-year-old after a shell hit a fuel station.
Meanwhile, thousands of people in Ukraine’s Odesa region are temporarily without strength after debris from a downed Russian drone sparked a fire at a force facility.
Governor Oleh Kiper said 170,000 homes faced power outages as a result of the attack.
Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure in recent days, causing extensive damage in several regions.
France will deliver loads of old armored cars and new surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said.
In an interview with La Tribune Dimanche, Lecornu said President Emmanuel Macron, after his talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, had asked him to prepare a new aid plan, which would include old but still functional French equipment.
“The Ukrainian army has to protect a very long front line, which requires armored vehicles; this is surely for the mobility of troops and is part of Ukraine’s demands,” he said.
He said France plans to supply frontline troop transport cargoes this year and early 2025.
Lecornu added that France is also preparing to launch a new batch of surface-to-air missiles.
He added: “Ukraine urgently wants greater surface-to-air defense. Russia is intensifying its attacks, especially against civilians and civilian infrastructure. “
The Russian Air Force carried out an attack on energy and fuel services in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry announced.
The ministry used “long-range, high-precision aerial weapons” and drones.
“As a result of this strike, the operation of defence industry enterprises in the manufacture and repair of weapons, apparatus and ammunition was interrupted,” the ministry said.
“All the objectives of the attack have been met. The allotted points were reached. “
Russia today carried out an anti-terrorism operation in southern Dagestan and arrested three people, the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee reported.
Russia is on high alert following the mass shooting at a Moscow concert hall on March 22, the deadliest attack in the country in 20 years, with at least 144 people killed.
“The security services arrested three bandits who were planning various terrorist crimes,” the commission said today.
“During the inspection of the places where the criminals were detained, automatic weapons, ammunition and an improvised explosive device were found in a position of use. “
Ukrainian troops fired self-propelled howitzers at Russian forces in southern Ukraine.
Fighting has been stalled lately and Russian forces have made small territorial gains.
The head of Ukraine’s largest power company, DTEK, said five of its six plants had been broken down or destroyed and that 80% of its generation capacity had been lost after two weeks of Russian attacks.
Russian missile and drone strikes hit thermal and hydroelectric plants in central and western Ukraine on Friday night.
And last night, Volodymyr Zelenskiyy said Russia was conducting “despicable attacks” aimed at causing a “hemorrhage” of Ukrainian energy.
DTEK CEO Dmytro Sakharuk said today that the waves of attacks on March 22 and 29 affected thermal and hydropower generation “in all regions” and that distribution services were destroyed.
“To be more specific, five of our six stations were severely damaged, some equipment was destroyed, others were reduced to 50 or more,” he said.
He added that maintenance could last up to 18 months.
Vladimir Putin signed a decree defining the regime’s spring conscription campaign, calling up 150,000 people for legal military service, according to a document posted on the Kremlin’s website.
In Russia, all men must complete one year of military service, or education as a component of higher education, starting at the age of 18.
In July, Russia’s parliament voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be drafted from 27 to 30.
The new law came into force on January 1 of this year.
In Russia, many men go to great lengths to avoid receiving conscription documents during semester conscription periods.
Conscripts cannot be legally deployed to fight outside Russia and were exempt from a limited mobilization in 2022 that amassed at least 300,000 men with prior military education to fight in Ukraine; Some recruits were sent to the front by mistake.
In September, Putin signed an order calling for 130,000 more people for the fall campaign, and last spring, Russia planned to draft 147,000.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will use his Easter sermon to call for “love in action” from those caught up in the conflict, adding to citizens of Ukrainian cities.
Justin Welby will say at Canterbury Cathedral that the Church is not a political party and that the Christian religion demands “courageous action” to right wrongs.
“Let’s seek action on behalf of the hungry youth of Gaza and Sudan – and the parents who are desperately seeking to get food for them, action on behalf of the hostages held through Hamas, action on behalf of those in the trenches and in the cities and fears of Ukraine, action on behalf of at least 30 and more near 50 other sites of armed conflict, an action in favor of the 25 to 30% of the deficient young people in this country,” he said in his Easter speech.
He will also say to the faithful: “We will have to face evil and pain. “
Elon Musk has said that Russia will “gain more territory than it has today. “
In an article on X, the Tesla boss said it was “a tragic loss of life for Ukraine to attack a larger army, with defense-in-depth, minefields, and more resilient artillery. “
He said his “recommendation from a year ago that Ukraine take hold and devote all its resources to defense. “
“There is no chance of Russia taking over all of Ukraine, as local resistance would be excessive in the west, but Russia will gain more territory than it has today,” he wrote.
“The longer the war lasts, the more territory Russia will gain until it reaches the Dnieper, which is difficult to overcome. However, if the war lasts long enough, Odessa will also fall. “
He added that the question remains whether Ukraine will lose everything to the Black Sea.
“I negotiated a deal before that happens,” he added.