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Domestic tourism in Russia is losing momentum following a brief upturn in 2023–2024 – travellers are increasingly less likely to choose domestic trips, and no one is even visiting the famous St Petersburg.
On 4 April, on Teatralna Square in Lutsk, a young woman fired wildly into the air with an air pistol and hit a trolleybus that had pulled up at the stop. Fortunately, no one was injured.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Russia intends to deploy ground-based drone control stations in Belarus. The Ukrainian side believes that this could heighten the risk of further attacks.
Russian forces attacked a minibus in Nikopol, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, with a drone this morning.
Ukraine plans to launch an international rail route to Bulgaria as early as the beginning of June. According to preliminary estimates, the journey from Kyiv to Varna will take around 30 hours.
Donald Trump’s latest barrage of threats against Iran, accompanied by swearing and promises to destroy critical infrastructure unless the regime ‘opens the bloody strait’, has led many politicians in the US to publicly question the American president’s mental stability.
In Zhytomyr, an unknown person detonated a grenade in a high-rise building. The police arrived at the scene; as far as is known, no one was injured.
Reports online suggest that the Romanian footballer and coach has been declared brain dead. There has been no official confirmation of this.
In Poznań, Poland, a woman who was believed to be drunk attacked two Ukrainian women and verbally abused them. The police have stated that she will soon be brought to justice.
Major General Majid Khadami, head of intelligence for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed during a series of US and Israeli strikes on Iran on 6 April.
Andrey Chibis, Governor of the Murmansk Region, has confirmed that Lieutenant General Alexander Otroshchenko was killed in the crash of the An-26 aircraft, which crashed in Crimea on 31 March.
The US has used up a large portion of its existing stockpile of JASSM-ER stealth cruise missiles in the operation in Iran. It looks as though it could take years to replenish these losses, as production rates are insufficient.
