Oleh Kolomiets, a military servicemember at the Bucha District Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center, declared gold bars worth 7.7 million hryvnias, as well as $43,500 and euros in cash, for the past year. Meanwhile, his official annual income was 366,000 hryvnias.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has reported serious problems with mobilization.

In Damascus, in addition to the meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, talks were held involving Ukrainian and Syrian delegations, as well as a trilateral meeting between representatives of Ukraine, Syria and Turkey.

Ukraine appears to be ignoring calls from foreign partners to halt strikes on Russian energy facilities amid the global oil and gas crisis triggered by the war in the Middle East.

Starting on the evening of April 5, Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 141 strike UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas, and other types. About 80 of them were Shaheds.

Ukrainian forces have regained control of the area near Ambarne in the Kharkiv region.

On the night of 5–6 April, Russian invaders launched another large-scale attack on Odesa. Hits on residential buildings and damage in the Kyivskyi and Prymorskyi districts have been reported.

Russia is changing its shelling tactics in an attempt to deplete Ukraine’s air defence stocks, particularly missiles for Patriot systems, the shortage of which is becoming more acute due to the war in the Middle East.

Heorhii Tykhyi, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that Kyiv had nothing to do with the incident involving explosives found near the "Turkish Stream" pipeline in Serbia.

On the night of April 5, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a number of key targets belonging to the Russian aggressor.