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Russia struck a market in Nikopol at 9:50 am on 4 April, killing 5 and injuring 19, the Prosecutor General's Office reports
The attack followed a 286-drone overnight assault: 260 downed, 11 hit targets. The day before, Russian strikes killed 7 and injured 35 in Donetsk and Kherson oblasts alone
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/04/five-dead-at-nikopol-market-after-morning-drone-strike-on-top-of-286-overnight/
Trump told The Telegraph he's "strongly considering" pulling the US out of NATO, calling the alliance a "paper tiger."
A former Norwegian defense attaché to Ukraine says Europe should let him go.
Hans Petter Midttun argues the ally Europe once knew is already gone. The V-Dem Institute ranks US democracy at 1965 levels.
The White House strategy aligns with Moscow on seven issues while calling for Washington to undermine EU-aligned governments.
Ukraine's drone forces struck over a dozen Russian military targets overnight on 4 April, headlined by the destruction of an S-400 Triumph multifunctional radar in Feodosia, occupied Crimea, and another Tor air defense system near Zachativka in occupied Donetsk Oblast.
Also hit: fuel tanks, logistics hubs, and two Shahed drone launch sites in Bryansk and Kursk.
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Ukraine remembers its heroes
Oleksandr Kusharyev, callsign "Zeleny," his unit liberated a Dnipro island, killed a Russian Pacific Fleet colonel. He went back twice after being wounded.
He was killed near Vuhledar on 9 June 2025. He was 36.
His wife and son received his posthumous commendation.
Photo: family archive / Ukrinform
Ukrainian drones struck the Tolyattikauchuk synthetic rubber plant in Tolyatti 900+ km from the front, overnight on 4 April, setting isobutane tanks and production units ablaze 1,100 km from the front line.
Fire also broke out at the nearby KuybyshevAzot chemical plant, which produces nitrogen fertilizers and caprolactam.
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In fall 2021, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and offered to discuss withdrawing allied troops from Russia's border—back to where they stood before 1997.
Four NATO members would have been left exposed: Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. They were not consulted. They opposed the idea.
A Ukrainian M-1 tank led a column down an uncleared road near Pokrovsk. Hit a mine. Another vehicle tipped into a ditch. Russia's elite drones flew through the fog and struck two more.
A defense ministry advisor called it "a crime." The regiment says only two died. The evidence suggests more.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/03/costly-pokrovsk-assault/
Putin pitched Egypt as a Russian grain hub on 2 April. Zelenskyy called Sisi a day later.
Egypt has now pledged to stop buying Russian grain stolen from occupied Ukraine and switch to Kyiv's supply instead.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/03/egypt-pledges-to-stop-buying-russias-stolen-ukrainian-grain/
Egypt pledged to stop buying Russian grain from occupied Ukrainian territories and increase Ukrainian wheat imports.
