And it will.. In recent weeks, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia enacted unilateral bans on Ukrainian food imports in an effort to contain the problem, to the consternation ofofficials in Kyiv and Brussels. Poltava Air Base, as well as Myrhorod Air Base, were used as eastern locations for landing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers involved in those operations. [5] In 1810 there were 8,328 people living in Poltava;[5] that same year, the city's first theater was built. Fuel tanks caught fire in Sevastopol, Crimea, after a possible drone strike early Saturday morning, Tass reported, citing Moscow-installed governor Mikhail Razvozhaev. Russia expanded its offensive to western Ukraine on Sunday, firing missiles near the city of Lviv and hitting a large military base close to the Polish border, reportedly killing dozens of people . Troops had been massing on Ukraines borders for months and Russian leader Vladimir Putin had made a series of fiery speeches on the long-running conflict in the Donbas region. And roughly 2.5 million people lived in Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, at the start of this year, according to the Russian statistical agency. The attack began before dawn and brought explosions to the Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and other cities. Russia-Ukraine war updates for April 2, 2022 - CNBC Already a subscriber? Among the U.S. intelligence documents found leaked recently is a report saying that Russias military intelligence agency in February planned a propaganda campaign using African media to realign public opinion in Africa with Russia, away from the West. Ukrainian officials have accused Russian troops of repeatedly bombarding convoys of food and medicine trying to reach the besieged city of Mariupol. Nearly 9.5 million people lived in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions before Russia launched a limited invasion in 2014, according to the Ukrainian statistical agency. In 1870 a railway station was opened, leading to rapid economic growth in the region. The claim about Mr. Putin is one of many to emerge since he launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year. The entire town heard that awful explosion, said Tetiana, a local hotel administrator who asked that her family name not be published out of safety concerns. killed 46 people, including six children. A psychologist on the scene offered assistance as his neighbors tried to offer words of solace. Ukraines forces continue to push east, capturing the transport hub of Lyman, near the north-eastern edge of the Donetsk province, which it wrestled from Russian control on October 1.