The Kyiv Independent’s Kate Tsurkan speaks with historian Serhii Plokhy about how Russia has shaped global perceptions of its past — and why those misunderstandings continue to shape today’s war.

Ukraine's parliament made scant progress on several reforms tied to funding from international partners, during a highly anticipated parliamentary session on April 7–8. Ukraine has missed deadlines on a range of reforms tied to international financing over the past year. Lawmakers attempted to gain momentum during this week's plenary session, yet were only able to pass one of four new taxes required by the International Monetary Fund under a new $8.1 billion lending arrangement. The parliament

“Who is silencing political voices? It's online platforms. Who is manipulating algorithms? Again, online platforms. Who is boosting the visibility of the preferred choice? Online platforms,” said Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier.

In addition to the Feodosia oil terminal, Ukraine targeted an oil depot in the village of Hvardiiske in Crimea, the General Staff said, without specifying the extent of the damage.

The Ukrainian drone strike overnight on April 6 put a ferry out of service that had previously been attacked in March but had remained afloat until then.

The new "evidence" reportedly includes a video of a Ukrainian official "falsifying documents in a gas station restroom" and his associates discussing "corruption-related payments."

Russia has targeted the facility for the fifth time since launching its full-scale invasion in 2022, the refinery's legal director, Anastasiia Cherednykova, told Suspilne.

Why are Ukrainian drones proving so effective on the battlefield? Can this experience be replicated elsewhere — particularly in the Gulf? And where are the real opportunities for investors in this rapidly evolving ecosystem? As war in the Middle East reshapes global threat perceptions and procurement priorities, attention is increasingly turning to Ukraine — not just as a battlefield, but as a leading producer and testing ground for cost-effective, rapidly deployable defense technologies. Ukrai

"American decisiveness works. We believe it is time for sufficient decisiveness to force Moscow to cease fire and end its war against Ukraine," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.

"This is the first time such plans have been documented on (the Russian) part," Deputy Presidential Office head Pavlo Palisa said.

Russia launched 176 drones at Ukraine overnight, the Air Force said, reporting that Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 146.

The number includes 1,030 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he has agreed to pause planned military strikes on Iran for two weeks, conditional upon the full and immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

The pro-Ukrainian partisan group Atesh sabotaged a railway line in Russia's Belgorod Oblast, disrupting the transport of military cargo toward Kupiansk, the group claimed via Telegram on April 8.

The acknowledgement, which was delivered to Yaounde by Russian officials and broadcast through Cameroonian state media on April 6, marks the first time Cameroon has formally spoken of its citizens' involvement in the Ukraine war.

U.S. President Donald Trump praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a political rally in Budapest, where Vice President JD Vance held up his phone so Trump could address the crowd live.

Mircea Lucescu, former head coach of Ukrainian football teams Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk, has died at the age of 80, Romanian media reported on April 7.

Key developments on April 7: * Russian attacks on Nikopol, Kherson see 9 dead and 49 injured across southern Ukraine * Ukraine confirms fresh strike on Russia’s Ust-Luga oil terminal as campaign to limit Russia's oil windfall continues * SBU seizes 'shadow fleet' vessel in Odesa port tied to illegal exports from occupied Crimea * Novorossiysk oil terminal stops exports after new Ukrainian drone strikes on April 5, Reuters reports Two deadly attacks across the Dnipro River have brought deat

Editor’s Note: In accordance with the security protocols of the Ukrainian military, soldiers featured in this story are identified by first name and call sign only. ZAPORIZHZHIA OBLAST – For tonight's clearing mission on the cold windy steppe of southern Ukraine, the munition of choice is the Spear. In a cramped dugout less than eight kilometers from Russian forces, Ukrainian soldiers prepare the bombs, taping wires and tail fins onto long tubes of black steel fitted with menacing iron spikes

Editor's note: This article was updated to include the results of the plenary session. Ukraine's parliament approved on April 7 one of several key tax bills tied to International Monetary Fund (IMF) funding, in a packed legislative push that also includes measures to align the country with the EU. The vote comes after weeks of political tensions and friction between the parliament, the government, and President Volodymyr Zelensky over the stalled legislation. After missing the official IMF de

Washington is "certainly aware that there are elements within the Ukrainian intelligence services that try to put their thumb on the scale of American elections, on Hungarian elections," Vice President JD Vance said.

Zelensky said Kyiv wants THAAD as part of future security guarantees, but analysts question both the system’s usefulness for Ukraine and the likelihood of it being provided.

The ship was detained in Odesa's commercial port after arriving under the flag of an African country, reportedly to load a shipment of steel pipes.

As sanctions increasingly weigh on the Russian economy, businesses and tycoons linked to the Kremlin are launching billions of dollars in claims under Cold War–era treaties — opening legal fronts against Ukraine and its Western supporters beyond their own courts. The Ukrainian-born Russian financier Mikhail Fridman is behind five claims and is seeking 16 billion euros in damages over Luxembourg’s freezing of his assets, while a company he co-owns with Pyotr Aven is claiming $1 billion over Ukra

At around 9 a.m., a Russian FPV drone, guided by a Russian operator, deliberately struck a passenger bus in central Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing three people and injuring 16 others. Three of the wounded are in critical condition. Earlier, an 11-year-old boy was killed and five people were injured in another attack in the region, , Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported.

A cross-party group of members of the European Parliament called for the removal of a former Kremlin interpreter from an OSCE mission set to monitor Hungary's April 12 election, a move that has been rebuked by the President of the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly.

The latest attack comes just one week after Kyiv last launched a full-blown assault on oil terminals in the region, including the Ust-Luga port which was struck on at least five separate occasions between March 22 - 31.

Russia's Foreign Ministry issued veiled threats towards the Baltic states on April 6, following Moscow’s suggestion that Kyiv’s allies are allowing the use of their airspace to strike Russian ports in the Baltic Sea — a claim that Baltic states have repeatedly labeled as disinformation.

"If Russia is ready to stop strikes on our energy infrastructure, we will be ready to respond in kind. This proposal has been conveyed to the Russian side through the Americans," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Ukraine's newest missile maker aims to launch an anti-ballistic defense to compete with U.S. PAC-3s by the end of next year, Reuters reports.

The Minudobrenia plant was reportedly struck. The facility produces ammonia, ammonium nitrate, and nitric acid, which are key components of explosives and ammunition.

At nearly 90, the Ukrainian painter Ivan Marchuk — widely regarded as one of the country's most important living artists — has found himself fighting in court to maintain the full creative rights to his vast body of work. Marchuk turned to the courts last year after he said that he was deceived into signing away some of the creative rights for a period of 100 years to three other people — all for Hr 10,000 ($228). The process is still ongoing. "He has not lost hope for a fair resolution of th