Fighting
Here is the latest on the ongoing conflict as of Sunday, March 30:
- In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, two individuals were injured during a Russian bombing, which caused damage to a kindergarten and private residences.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that over 1,000 drones were launched by Russian forces across the country over the past week.
- Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, stated that a late Sunday missile attack in Kupiansk resulted in three injuries and destroyed more than 10 houses and a local cemetery.
- According to Russia’s Ministry of Defence, air defense units successfully intercepted 66 Ukrainian drones overnight, with most being downed in the Bryansk and Kaluga regions.
- The Russian Defence Ministry announced that their forces had “liberated” the village of Zaporizhzhia in the eastern Donetsk region, situated near the border of Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region.
Politics
- United States President Donald Trump expressed his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin for questioning the credibility of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s leadership.
- Trump announced plans to impose secondary tariffs ranging from 25 percent to 50 percent on buyers of Russian oil if he determined that Moscow was undermining his efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
- Trump suggested that Zelenskyy might be attempting to renegotiate a deal granting the US access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, warning that there would be significant consequences if he did so.
- Moscow and Washington have initiated talks on cooperative projects involving rare earth metals and other initiatives in Russia, according to Russia’s special envoy for international economic and investment cooperation.
