Four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing a spring of discontent.

Russia allegedly launched a wide-scale phishing attack through the Signal app targeting Germany’s high-profile politicians, diplomats and military officers.

Another interest-rate cut highlights the narrowing path for the country’s central bank amid the strains of immense wartime spending.

"If you (the government) do not urgently adopt financial, economic and other measures, by ‌autumn a repeat of what happened in ⁠1917 awaits us."

Russian President Vladimir Putin's ratings are falling, and citizens are voicing despair, with the war in its fifth year, talks stalled and sanctions biting deeper.

At least nine people have been killed and 29 others injured in Russian attacks against Ukraine over the past day, local authorities said on April 23. Russian missiles and drones hit cities and towns across Ukraine: Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Kyiv, among others.

Russian forces fired 47 missiles and 619 drones including about 400 Shahed-type "kamikaze" drones, primarily targeting the frontline city of Dnipro, Ukraine's Air Force reported.

Strikes across Ukraine, Russia and Russian-occupied territory have left at least 16 people dead as the region marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Russia said on Friday that new European Union sanctions on its oil and gas would hurt developing countries and the EU itself, and promised to retaliate.