Wednesday

May 1, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russia displays captured NATO military vehicles and equipment at an open-air exhibition in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. Among the captured vehicles are a German Leopard 2 tank and an American M1 Abrams tank. (BBC News) (Fox News)

Odesa strikes

Two Russian ballistic missiles strike the port city of Odesa, killing three people and injuring sixteen others. (Reuters) (Reuters 2) (Kyiv Post)

Israel–Hamas war

Disasters and accidents

At least nine people are killed in an ongoing heatwave in eastern India. (Reuters)

2024 Guangdong floods

Forty-eight people are killed and 30 more injured as twenty-three vehicles fell down during a highway collapse in Meizhou, Guangdong, China. (AP)

2024 Kenya floods

The death toll from ongoing flooding in Kenya increases to 181, as more homes and roads are destroyed. (Reuters)

2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods

Ten people are killed by heavy rain in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (ABC News)