Portal:Current events/2024 April 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian Ministry of Defence claims control over the village of Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United Kingdom announces its largest ever military support package for the Ukrainian military, pledging 400 vehicles, including 162 MXT-MVs, 60 boats, 1,600 air defence missiles, 4 million rounds of firearm ammunition, and an additional £500 million in funding. (The Guardian)
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russia strikes the Kharkiv TV Tower with a Kh-59 cruise missile, causing the upper half of the tower to collapse and disrupting the broadcasting signal in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Siege of Khan Yunis
    • Israeli troops and tanks raid Khan Yunis in Gaza after abruptly withdrawing from the city earlier this month. (Reuters)
• Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
  • Two police officers are killed and another is injured during a mass shooting of a police squad in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia. (Tass)
• Moro conflict
  • Twelve Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters militants are killed and seven soldiers are wounded during a shootout in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Guangdong floods
  • Four people are killed and ten are missing during floods caused by heavy rain in Guangdong Province, China. Around 110,000 people are evacuated. (BBC News)

International relations

• China–Japan relations
  • Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine
    • China objects to an offering that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
    • The head of the Military Intelligence Directorate of Israel Aharon Haliva resigns for failing to prevent the Hamas offensive on Israel on October 7, 2023. (AP)
• 2024 Maldivian parliamentary election
  • President Mohamed Muizzu's party, the People's National Congress, is declared the winner of the election. (Reuters)
• 2024 Basilicata regional election
  • Vito Bardi is re-elected president of the Italian region of Basilicata. (RAI News)

Science and technology

• NASA announces that it has received decipherable data from the Voyager 1 space probe for the first time in five months. (CNN)