Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 416

By William On Apr 15, 2023

This is the situation on Saturday, April 15, 2023:

To fight

Eight people, including a toddler, were killed after Russian shells hit an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk. More than a dozen residents were injured.
The British Ministry of Defense said Russia had “revived” its efforts in Bakhmut thanks to better relations between the army and the mercenary Wagner Group. Ukraine still held the western districts of the city but had been exposed to particularly intense Russian artillery fire, it added.
Russian special forces have suffered “considerable losses” in the war in Ukraine, leaked US military documents show.
Ukraine will “test and use” all non-banned weapons to liberate its territory, including Russian-occupied Crimea, the head of the National Security and Defense Council said.
Ukraine has retrieved the bodies of 82 of its soldiers from Russian-controlled territory, a minister said.

During talks in Beijing, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on the need for a negotiated settlement to end the war in Ukraine.
Also in Beijing, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock urged China to pressure Moscow to end its invasion of Ukraine, saying no other country had “more influence over Russia”.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote to Russia, Ukraine and Turkey expressing concern over the implementation of a deal that would allow the safe export of wartime grain from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
Finland, which joined NATO last week, unveiled the first part of a fence it is building on its border with Russia.
The Pentagon announced that next week US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet with his Swedish and German counterparts and host a Ukraine-related defense meeting involving nearly 50 nations.

The eight Leopard 2 tanks that Canada had promised to Ukraine arrived in neighboring Poland, Defense Minister Anita Anand said.
The Danish defense ministry said Ukraine will receive 19 French-made Caesar howitzer artillery systems in the coming weeks.
China has approved “the incremental delivery” of military equipment to Russia and wanted it to remain secret, according to leaked US military intelligence based on Russian intercepts.
Foreign Minister Qin Gang said China will not sell weapons to Russia or Ukraine for use in the war.
A senior adviser in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office said Ukrainian troops said they found Chinese-made components in Russian weapons used on the battlefield.