On February 24, 2022, Russian Federation started a full-scale military invasion in Ukraine.

LIVE UPDATE, APRIL 2022

🟡30.04.2022

20:26 Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment Sviatoslav Palamar

An evacuation convoy arrived in Mariupol on Saturday evening, April 30. 20 civilians were able to be taken out of the territory of Azovstal, who were pulled out of the rubble. Еhey are planned to be taken to the territory controlled by Ukraine.

“I emphasise that we ask to guarantee the departure of not only civilians but also the wounded of our servicemen who need medical care,” said Deputy Commander Azov.

19:16 Генеральний штаб ЗСУ / General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 30, 2022.

The sixty-sixth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues.

The Russian enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine and offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone.

In the Slobozhansky direction, a group of Russian enemy troops continues to launch airstrikes and artillery shelling on the city of Kharkiv.
In the Izium direction, Russian occupiers, with the help of independent units of the 1st Tank Army and the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District, the 35th Combined Arms Army and the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District, and airborne troops are trying to advance in the direction Izium – Barvinkove and Izium – Slovyansk.
The Russian enemy continues to concentrate forces and resources both in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kharkiv region and in the Belgorod region, near the state border of Ukraine. Thus, the occupiers moved units of the 55th Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District to the Volokhiv Yar settlement and units of the 5th Independent Tank Brigade of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District to Izyum.
Russian enemy is increasing the air defence system, conducting air reconnaissance of the positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the use of UAVs in the settlements of Velyka Komyshuvakha, Ivanivka, Chervone, Kurulka, Dovhenke, Nova Dmytrivka and Barvinkove.
Russian occupation forces continue to carry out illegal actions in the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region. According to available information, the Russian enemy is forcibly deporting the population to the territory of the Russian federation. Russian occupiers are spreading misinformation about the capture of Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian enemy is conducting active hostilities along almost the entire line of contact. Airstrikes and artillery shelling of Ukrainian defenders’ positions continue.
The main efforts of the enemy are focused on offensive operations in the Lyman, Severodonetsk, Popasna, and Kurakhiv areas to take full control of the settlements of Rubizhne, Popasna, and, probably, a further attack on the Lyman, Slovyansk, and Barvinkove.
In the Mariupol direction, the Russian enemy continued to launch airstrikes on the city of Mariupol. The main efforts are focused on blocking units of the Defence Forces in the area of the Azovstal plant.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the Russian enemy regrouped and increased artillery units to continue the offensive.
In the Tavriya direction, the Russian enemy continues to demonstrative actions to prevent the transfer of units of Ukrainian troops to other areas, to replenish stocks of ammunition, fuel, and oils.
In the South Buh direction, Russian occupiers forces of the 8th and 49th Combined Arms Armies, the 22nd Army Corps, the coastal units of the Black Sea Fleet of the Southern Military District, and airborne troops are fighting to improve their tactical position. The enemy continues to regroup units, and take measures to replenish supplies.
Preparatory measures of the enemy to carry out the offensive and reach the administrative border of the Kherson region are underway.
In the Mykolaiv direction, the Russian enemy continues to attempt to fire positions on our troops.
In the Bessarabian direction, Russian occupiers are spreading misinformation about the threat to the population of the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova from Ukraine.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to perform tasks to strengthen the section of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. The Russian enemy may provoke in the border areas.
The Russian enemy remains in danger of launching missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. According to the available information, the Russian mobile short-range ballistic missile systems Iskander-M are still deployed in the territory of the Republic of Belarus, and some aviation units of the Russian Air Force continue to be based at certain airfields.
In the Siversky direction, the Russian enemy continues artillery shelling of units of our troops and infrastructure in the border areas of Ukraine with the Russian federation.
Russian occupiers are launching missile and bomb attacks and carrying out artillery shelling of civilian infrastructure and residential areas in the settlements of Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv region.
The Russian enemy also continues to illegally detain Ukrainian citizens and torture and torment them.
As a result of the offensive of the Ukrainian Defence Forces in the Kharkiv region, control over the settlements of Verkhnya Rohanka, Ruska Lozova, Slobidske, and Prilesne was restored.

17:49 Ukrzaliznytsia

UN Ambassador for Refugees Angelina Jolie arrived in Ukraine on a humanitarian mission and visited Lviv Railway Station, where she met passengers on an evacuation train from Pokrovsk.

18:34 Operational Command “South”

As a result of a missile attack on the Odesa region, the runway of the Odesa airport was damaged. Its further use is impossible.

17:53 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk

Prisoners were exchanged today. 14 Ukrainians – 7 military and 7 civilians – were returned.

“For me, this exchange is special: one of the military women in the fifth month of pregnancy,” said Vereshchuk.

8:54 Head of the Popasna City Military-Civil Administration Mykola Khanatov

Two evacuation buses in Popasna were shot by Russians, and communication with drivers was lost.

“Yesterday we evacuated 31 people from Popasna. There were many more people interested, so two more buses were sent to the city. It is known that they reached the settlement and came under fire from an enemy sabotage group. Buses were shot. There is no connection with the people who were in the vehicle and organised the evacuation,” Mykola Khanatov said.

7:26 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 30, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The sixty-sixth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy continues to carry out offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land route with the occupied Crimea.
The Russian enemy launches air and missile strikes and launches artillery shelling of civilian and military infrastructure in the depths of Ukraine, the positions of our troops along the line of contact and in the border areas. It is regrouping and strengthening of occupying forces continues.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action. There have been no significant changes in the situation in these areas.
In the Siversky direction, Russian enemy units fired on the positions of our troops in the areas of the settlements of Kindrativka, Katerynivka, Svarkove, and Bilokopytove.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy is concentrating its main efforts on maintaining its occupied positions and inflicting fire damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In order to strengthen the group, the Russian enemy is moving individual units from the Eastern Military District from the territory of the Belgorod region to the area of the city of Izyum.
Russian units tried to launch an offensive in the direction of the settlements of Sulyhivka and Dovhenke but were unsuccessful. In order to cover the groups of its troops in the Kharkiv and Izyum directions, the Russian enemy is trying to deploy forces and means of air defence.
In the Eastern Operational Zone, the Russian enemy continues to advance on the Lyman (in the areas of Yampil, Ozerne, Lyman), Severodonetsk, where it is trying to complete the capture of Rubizhne, Popasna (in the direction of Kalinovo and Popasna) and Kurakhiv (Olenivka and Novomykhailivka) directions. There is no success, the fighting continues.
Artillery shelling of units of Ukrainian troops does not stop in the Zaporizhzhia direction.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy did not conduct active offensive operations. Isolated attacks on the positions of units of Ukrainian troops are recorded.
In the Bessarabian direction, without significant changes.
In the Mykolaiv direction, the Russian enemy intensified air reconnaissance in the operational depth of the defensive positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, presumably in order to expose the presence and nature of the actions of the reserves.
During the previous day, the air defence units of the Air Force and the Land Forces hit ten air targets: one plane and nine UAVs of the Orlan-10 operational and tactical level.
Fourteen enemy attacks were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts over the past 24 hours, eleven tanks, seven artillery systems, twenty-eight armoured vehicles, and fourteen vehicles were destroyed.
About the summarised losses of the Russian enemy in our separate report a little later.

🔵29.04.2022

20:46 Evropeiska Pravda referring to Reuters

The United States does not believe there is a threat of Russia’s use of nuclear weapons, despite the recent escalation of Moscow’s rhetoric.

This was stated by a senior official of the US Department of Defense.

“We continue to monitor their nuclear capabilities on a daily basis as far as possible, and we do not believe that there is a threat of nuclear weapons or a threat to NATO territory,” the official said on condition of anonymity.

20:27 Ukrainska Pravda

The commander of the Ukrainian 36th Marine Brigade, Serhii Volynsky (Volyna), appealed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to apply the “extraction” procedure to them and take them to Turkey.

“Dear Mr. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Marine Major Serhiy Volynskyi is addressing you. I am currently serving in the 36th Marine Brigade stationed in the Mariupol garrison, which has been fighting for 65 days.

We have 600 servicemen with various injuries who are in dire need of help. We have civilians with us who have been injured, and who also need your help. Hundreds of civilians and dozens of children are also looking for safety with us at the facility. The youngest is 4 months old.

I am now appealing to the Turkish people, to the President to apply the extraction procedure to us, to do everything possible to take the Mariupol garrison to Turkey, to practically take us away from Azovstal with security guarantees from the Turkish side. We are very much counting on your help,” Volynskyi told Habertürk TV.

19:29 European Pravda

The United States has trained up to 100 Ukrainian instructors to use American artillery.

This was stated by a senior official of the US Department of Defence, as reported by CNN.

The US has also trained a group of about 15 Ukrainians on the US radar systems that are being provided to Ukraine, with more groups of a yet to be determined number to be trained in the future, the official said.

US training for Ukrainians will “go on for as long as it needs to go on,” the official added.

19:15 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 29, 2022.

The sixty-fifth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy continues to carry out offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land route with the occupied Crimea.
In the Volyn and Polissya areas, certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out tasks to strengthen the section of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. An inspection of the readiness of the aviation component of the regular forces and means of the air defence system of the Republic of Belarus was noted.
The threat of missile and bomb strikes on the objects of Ukraine from the territory of the Republic of Belarus remains.
In the Siversky direction, the Russian enemy, by keeping the appropriate set of troops, is trying to prevent the movement of reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Siversky direction to the Eastern Operational Zone. In the areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions bordering Ukraine, the Russian enemy deployed part of the units to restore combat capability.
In the future, the enemy may demonstrate and provoke in the areas adjacent to the state border of Ukraine. In particular, there is a possibility of shelling of units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine and infrastructure in the border areas.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy group of the 6th Combined Arms Army and the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets are focusing on maintaining positions in the area north and southeast of Kharkiv, trying to deploy additional artillery units.
In the Izium direction, the Russian enemy is operating with units of the 1st Tank Army, the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District, the 35th Combined Arms Army, the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District, and the Airborne Troops. The Russian enemy’s main efforts are focused on conducting reconnaissance and inflicting fire damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
To ensure additional transfer of troops in the Izyum direction, Russian occupiers provide additional pontoon-bridge crossings across the Siversky Donets River.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, enemy units are trying to launch an offensive in the Lyman, Severodonetsk, and Popasna directions. The Russian enemy continues to try to establish full control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna and is preparing to advance on Severodonetsk. The Russian enemy continues artillery shelling of our troops.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the occupiers’ groups were reinforced by additional artillery units from the 1st Army Corps.
In the Mariupol direction, the Russian enemy continued to launch airstrikes on Mariupol. It focused its main efforts on blocking the units of Ukrainian troops in the area of the Azovstal plant, and also transferred some units from Mariupol to the Kurakhiv direction.
The Russian enemy continues to launch air and missile strikes to destroy civilian infrastructure and disrupt the logistics of our troops. To clarify the position of the units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine, the Russian enemy conducted air reconnaissance using the Orlan-10 UAV. It continues to lose this reconnaissance equipment.
In the South Buh and Bessarabian directions, the Russian enemy is trying to fight with the available forces to improve its tactical position. Continues to regroup, increases the system of fire damage, improves the engineering equipment of positions.
As part of the increase in the system of logistics of the troops, Russian occupiers deployed assembly points for damaged vehicles and points for repair and restoration of equipment.
In the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation continues to disseminate information through pro-Kremlin media about the threat to the population of the region from Ukraine. In particular, there are reports of another case of Ukrainian UAVs being used over ammunition depots.
Defenders of Ukraine hold certain defensive lines, destroy the enemy, continue to move deep into the occupied territories, and liberate settlements.

16:57 European Pravda

British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons reported on her arrival in Kyiv.

“It was a long drive but worth going the distance. So good to be in Kyiv again,” she wrote.

16:35 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

A shootout took place in the Kherson region between Chechens and Buryats from the Russian army. The cause of the conflict was the reluctance of the Buryats to conduct offensive hostilities and the “inequality” of conditions with the Chechens. Another reason is the uneven distribution of the loot because Chechens benefit from it.

16:22 Forbes

Russia fired 1,300 missiles at Ukraine during the war, costing the aggressor at least $ 7.5 billion.

16:20 Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan

The Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Kyiv resumed work on April 29.

15:34 State Border Guard Service

A Russian helicopter fired unguided missiles at Ukrainian territory in the Sumy region.

15:16 Operational Command “South”

In the south of Ukraine, missile and artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit 11 enemy targets.

14:55 Suspilne

Norway has joined the fifth package of European Union sanctions against Russia imposed through its invasion of Ukraine. The country will close its borders and ports to Russian trucks and ships.

14:10 Security Service of Ukraine

SSU officers detained three Russian servicemen hiding in abandoned buildings near Voznesensk. They were part of a group that was trying to seize the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant.

14:06 Suspilne

The State Border Guard Service does not rule out that Russia may use unrecognised Transnistria to escalate the situation in Ukraine. This was stated at a briefing by the spokesman of the State Border Guard Service Andrii Demchenko.

“The situation remains tense on the border with Moldova. In particular, in the Transnistrian segment. It is possible that, like the territory of Belarus, the enemy may use this direction for further escalation.”

13:37 Land Forces Command of AFU

The assault unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under the leadership of the Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi liberated the village of Ruska Lozova in the Kharkiv region from the occupiers. Currently, it is completely under the control of the Armed Forces.

This is a strategically important settlement located on the Kharkiv-Belgorod highway. The enemy was based in this suburbs and aimed at the civilian infrastructure and residential neighbourhoods of Kharkiv.

13:35 National Police of Ukraine

Since the beginning of the Russian military attack, users of the StopRussiaChannel | MRIYA have already sent more than 4 million complaints to block propaganda resources. 47 thousand reports about the hostile actions of the occupiers, such as the location of their equipment or the marks left, were received through the bot “People’s Avenger”. That’s why the invaders are creating fake channels of the National Police. They are trying to somehow minimise the losses and get messages instead of Ukrainian law enforcement.

13:29 Ukrainska Pravda

Two members of the British humanitarian organisation were captured by the Russian military in the Zaporizhzhia region.

This was stated by the co-founder of a network of charities working in Ukraine, Dominik Byrne, quoted by BBC.

13:11 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

“Everything we have been earning for years, the occupiers destroyed in an instant. They also threw grenades at our cellar…”

Mykhailo and Olena, residents of the village of Lypivka in the Kyiv region, spoke about the atrocities of the Russian invaders.

Even though the house burned down, the family does not lose faith in a better future, and if possible shares with neighbours products that were saved in the cellar.

12:37 State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine

As of April 27, 243 crimes against journalists and media were registered in 16 regions of Ukraine.

In total, seven journalists were killed in the line of duty during the war, 15 went missing, 14 died as participants in hostilities or as a result of Russian shelling in the line of duty, and 9 were wounded in shelling by the Russian occupiers, and 8 journalists were abducted.

In addition, 11 cases of shelling of TV towers by the Russian occupiers were recorded, which led to the disappearance of Ukrainian broadcasting.

12:30 Radio Liberty

Radio Liberty journalist and producer Vira Hyrych died as a result of a Russian missile hitting the house where she lived in Kyiv. The shelling took place on April 28. The deceased was found under the wreckage on the morning of April 29.

12:07 Ukrinform citing the Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

The invaders took almost all the men from the outskirts of Mariupol to the filtration camp in the village of Bezimenne and have not been released for more than a week.

“Almost all men were taken to the Bezimenne filtration camp in the suburbs (Myrnyi, Volonterivka, and Vynohradne). Even after filtering, they have not been released for more than a week,” wrote Andriushchenko.

11:53 Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Pavliuk

Two residents of Fastiv in the Kyiv region were hospitalised with moderate injuries after a missile attack on the city on the evening of April 28.

11:49 Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Today the Dutch embassy will reopen in Kyiv. Ambassador Jennes de Mol and a small team will work closely with Ukrainian authorities and partner countries on the ground.

11:21 European Pravda

A cargo carrying over 71,000 tonnes of Ukrainian corn finished loading in the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanța on Thursday, the first since Russia invaded Ukraine. This was reported by Reuters.

“Supporting Ukrainian grain exports means preventing a colossal wave of global hunger triggered by the blocking of Ukrainian ports,” said the President of Comvex port operator Viorel Panait.

11:20 State Border Guard Service
This morning the enemy fired on the Sumy region from the territory of Russia.

Border guards of the Sumy detachment recorded the incoming of more than thirty mortar mines fired from the Russian village Horodyshche.

In one case, the enemy fired at the crossroads between three villages of the Shostka district in the Sumy region. During another Russian attack, mines exploded on the outskirts of one of these villages.

Defenders of Ukraine were not injured during the shellings.

11:11 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

Over the past day, the Russian occupation forces fired 16 artillery shells, 2 rocket-propelled grenades, and one missile at Kharkiv.

The Russian fire damaged civilian objects in the following areas: Kharkiv Tractor Plant, Pyatihatky, Saltivka (602nd microdistrict), and Pivnichna Saltivka.

Artillery, mortar, and tank strikes were also inflicted on Kulynychi, Khroly, Kotliary, and Pokotylivka.

This morning the occupiers fired at Sokilnyky from barrel artillery.

During the past 24hrs, 5 civilians were killed and 11 were injured in the shelling.

Active battles continue in the Izium direction. The Ukrainian army holds positions. During the last night, the enemy did not carry out active offensive operations but conducted active reconnaissance.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down another Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber.

10:31 Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klychko

Rescuers who are continuing to inspect and dismantle the rubble of a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, where a rocket hit yesterday, have just found the deceased.

10:10 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 29.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 23000 (+200) persons were liquidated,

tanks – 986 (+16),

APV – 2418 (+29),

artillery systems – 435 (+4),

MLRS – 151,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 73 (+1),

aircraft – 189 (+2),

helicopters – 155,

vehicles – 1695 (+7),

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 229 (+14),

special equipment – 31,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

On the past day, the Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Izium direction.

Data is being updated.

10:08 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Disinformation theses of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on the situation in Ukraine over the past day.

The Kremlin media reported that Poland “plans to establish military and political control over the western regions of Ukraine under the pretext of the May military exercises.”

The danger is that this narrative is being promoted to the Russian-speaking audience not only by openly Russian propaganda media but also by so-called Russian oppositionists. According to the forecasts of the “opposition”, Poland will take away part of Ukraine if Russia invades Donbas and the south.

This thesis was picked up in the world. Reuters published an article entitled “The head of Russian intelligence said that the United States and Poland are preparing to divide Ukraine.” Poland has denied all allegations, stressing that Russian lies about Poland’s plans to attack Ukraine have been going on for several years.

Russia disinforms the world through various channels of communication that the fate of Ukraine as a state will be decided in June.

9:45 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers are taking money from people and extorting personal data through fraudulent financial transactions.

So-called “ATMs” operating under the control of Russian terrorists have opened in the blocked city. One of such “ATMs” is working in the premises of a former supermarket in the Livoberezhnyi district of the city.

There, Mariupol residents can exchange non-cash money for cash from fraudsters at a rate of 2 to 1. That is, the occupiers take away half of the amount from people.

In the premises of the Central Police Department, the occupiers under the guise of a “pension fund and social services” began actively collecting data from Mariupol residents.

During the “registration” the occupiers extract data not only about the person and property but also on relatives.

There is a danger that these data may be used by Russians to search for people, blackmail, recruit and extort money from relatives who have left or live outside Mariupol.

Terror, cruel and degrading treatment of civilians in the occupied territories is a war crime under the Statute of the International Military Tribunal and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and a violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation of Human Rights Violations during the Russian Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of Russian war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.

9:41 Ukrainska Pravda citing the Melitopol Mayor Ivan FedorovCases of kidnapping by Russian occupiers at checkpoints and on the streets have become more frequent, so it is now dangerous to move around the city and district.

9:17 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Russians fired on a school building in Severodonetsk

Russian army launched an artillery strike on the city in the morning. After the shell hit, the building of the secondary school caught fire. Rescuers arrived on time and put out the fire.

8:29 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of April 29, 2022:

Manipulation. Russian propaganda continues to demonize Ukraine’s history. Thus, the propagandists once again reported that “nationalists from the armed forces of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, as allies of the Nazis, carried out acts of sabotage in the rear of the Soviet troops.”
Manipulation. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that nationalist militants, like Hitler’s Nazis, were hiding behind civilians as a “living shield.” In Kharkiv and Odesa, they are setting up firing positions in residential buildings. “
Manipulation. Russia’s propaganda is trying to increase pressure on the world community. Thus, the exhibition “Why did a special operation start in Ukraine?” Opened in Lebanon, which presents photos that tell about the events in Donbass since 2014 in a favorable light for Russia.

8:24 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

219 children died in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression by the Russian Federation

As of the morning of April 29, 2022, more than 617 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to official figures, 219 children died and more than 398 were injured in varying degrees.

These numbers are not conclusive, as work is underway to establish them in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

The most children were affected in Donetsk region – 139, Kyiv region – 115, Kharkiv region – 95, Chernihiv region – 68, Kherson region – 44, Mykolaiv region – 43, Luhansk region – 37, Zaporizhzhia region – 27, Sumy region – 17, Kyiv city – 16, Zhytomyr region – 15.

8:01 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

In the morning, the occupiers fired again at Velyka Kostromka and Marianske from Grad MLRS. Outbuildings were affected.

Preliminary, civilians were not injured. But we are still clarifying.

7:31 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russians fired 10 times at the cities of the region, fighting continues for Orikhove

Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Hirske, Pryvillya, and Popasna came under enemy fire.

The Russians shelled Lysychansk four times and Popasna twice. In Hirske, it is loud almost continuously.

In each of these cities there is damage to housing and farm buildings. So, in one of the garage complexes the flames spread over a large area – it took several hours to tame.

The enemy repeatedly tried to storm the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Orikhove and Svitlichne. Our military is doing a good rebuff, but the Russians are using all their weapons to open fire on settlements, destroying buildings and infrastructure – it is impossible to restore water, electricity and gas there.

At the frontline, Ukrainian defenders repulsed nine enemy attacks, destroying six tanks, one artillery system, 12 armored vehicles, a car and an anti-aircraft gun, shooting down a plane, a cruise missile and five unmanned aerial vehicles.

7:11 Operational Command South

Current operational situation in the south of Ukraine: in the evening of April 28, 2022

During the sixty-fourth day of courageous resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian invasion, the enemy continued to conduct hostilities in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. Our units did not allow him to attack or advance.
Instead, the effective use of missile and artillery strikes destroyed 14 Russians, armored and automotive equipment, means of artillery and missile destruction.
Meanwhile, Mykolaiv and Odesa were hit by missiles. In the morning racists fired at one of the enterprises of Mykolaiv. The missile strike destroyed production facilities for the manufacture of building materials. There are no victims.
In the evening, a missile strike was carried out on the Odesa region. The region was attacked by three missiles, two of which were Caliber naval-based cruise missiles fired by a Russian ship and an X-59 from an enemy aircraft. All missiles were destroyed by the accurate work of our air defense units.
Russian naval group maintains a submarine and continues to threaten with missile strikes.

6:43 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 06.00 on April 29, 2022.

The sixty-fifth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion continues. A russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

russian enemy continues to carry out offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land route with the occupied Crimea.

In the Volyn and Polissya areas, russian enemy did not take active action, no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found. Certain units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus continue to perform tasks to strengthen the protection of the state border with Ukraine.
No changes in the activities and composition of russian enemy group were detected in the Seversky direction.
In the Slobozhansky direction, russian enemy continues to focus its efforts on maintaining its positions near the city of Kharkiv and is trying to carry out fire damage to units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in certain areas.
russian enemy did not conduct active offensive operations in the Izium direction. its main efforts were focused on conducting reconnaissance, identifying the defensive positions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and their destruction by artillery fire.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, in order to prevent the regrouping of Ukrainian troops, russian enemy fires at positions from artillery, mortars and rocket-propelled grenade launchers along the entire line of contact.

russian occupiers continue to blockade Ukrainian units in Mariupol, near the Azovstal plant.
In the temporarily occupied territories, russian occupation authorities continue to take measures to restrict the movement and detention of local residents and block humanitarian goods from the territory of Ukraine. In addition, russian occupiers are robbing peasants. For example, more than 60 tons of wheat were stolen from an agricultural society in the town of Kamianka-Dniprovska together with a truck.

Fifteen air targets were hit by Ukrainian defenders the day before: one plane, five cruise missiles and nine operational-tactical drones.

Ukrainian defenders are actively manoeuvring defence, in some places counterattacks. In the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts alone, nine enemy attacks have been repulsed in the past 24 hours, six tanks, one artillery system, twelve armoured vehicles, one car and one anti-aircraft gun have been destroyed.

We will report on the total losses of the enemy in a separate report.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

3:05 Suspilne TV referring to OSCE

OSCE has announced the closure of its monitoring mission in Ukraine

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Zbigniew Rau and Secretary-General Helga Maria Schmid have announced that the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine will be closed in the near future.

It is noted that this decision was the result of a lack of consensus with Russia on extending the mission’s mandate.

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23:46 Serhii Hamalii, head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Military Administration

There was a missile strike on an infrastructure facility in one of the territorial communities of Shepetivka district in the territory of Khmelnytsky region.

The fire was extinguished. Thank you to the staff of the SES.

The consequences of the strike are eliminated. There are no victims!

23:13 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

According to Vasylivka residents, the number of Russian servicemen has increased significantly in the city. They are located in residential areas to hide behind civilians and use them as human shields. It is also known that the occupiers distribute humanitarian aid and medicine only to those who support them and promote their criminal activities. Many residents refuse to cooperate with the Russians.
The situation in Polohy district remains tense. Due to the terrorist actions of the occupying forces, the number of destructions is increasing every day. Orikhiv and Huliaipole are under fire, as well as surrounding settlements.
In the villages of Botieve and Strohanivka in the Melitopol district, the occupation commandant’s office requires entrepreneurs to open shops, cafes, places of recreation and leisure. One of the conditions for safe work is the absence of Ukrainian goods on store shelves. Instead, Ukrainian entrepreneurs are being actively campaigned to trade in goods from the Crimea and introduce a “ruble zone.”
The prosecutor’s office has launched criminal proceedings over today’s air strike in Zaporizhzhia. The servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces used an X-55 air-to-ground missile in the private sector of the city. As a result of the enemy attack, residential buildings were destroyed. According to preliminary data, 5 people were injured, including an 11-year-old boy.
Another case was opened on the fact that the occupiers stole grain from the territory of Zaporizhzhia region. According to the investigation, on April 26, 2022, armed Russian soldiers, threatening to use physical violence, robbed a branch of one of the agricultural societies in the city of Kamianka-Dniprovska. The occupiers removed 61 tons of wheat and other property stolen from the enterprise by truck, which was also at the disposal of the branch.

23:01 State Emergency Service

According to preliminary data, 5 people were rescued, 10 were injured. The information is being clarified.

On April 28, at 8:13 p.m., the State Emergency Service in Kyiv received a report of a fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district of the capital. As a result of enemy shelling, a fire broke out in a 25-storey residential building with partial destruction of the 1st and 2nd floors.

At 9:25 p.m., the fire was extinguished on a total area of 100 square meters. Search and rescue operations are underway.

22:11 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on April 28, 2022:

Manipulation. The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to “initiate a criminal case on the fact of abduction of a priest by Ukrainian nationalists.”
Disinformation. Despite the fact that the Polish Ministry of Defense informed in advance about the conduct of military exercises on its territory, the head of Russian intelligence said about the plans of Poland to join the western lands of Ukraine.
Fake. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that “in Lyman, Ukrainian Armed Forces units from the suburbs are shelling residential areas with artillery, while journalists from safe places are filming destroyed civilian infrastructure.”

21:29 Oleksandr Pavliuk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration

Russian invaders launched a missile strike on the territory of the Fastiv community.

21:19 Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

Today is another day of almost continuous shelling of Kharkiv region by Russian invaders. Civilians continue to die under the fire of the occupiers.

The enemy continued to fire from artillery on Kharkiv. Kyivsky and Nemyshlyansky districts were shelled today. 2 civilians were killed and 4 Kharkiv residents were injured.

The shelling of the settlements of Kharkiv district also continued. In Khroly – 1 wounded, in Kotlyary – 1 wounded, 1 person died. In Pokotylivka – 5 wounded and 2 dead.

Despite constant shelling and risk, utilitiy services are restoring critical infrastructure. Roofs are repaired every day, broken windows are closed, streets are cleared.

In Dergachi, utility services rebuilt a damaged gas pipeline and returned electricity to the homes of more than 1,500 residents. Water supply was restored in Chuhuiv.

Today, the occupiers made another attempt to advance from Izium in the directions of Brazhkivka, Dovhenke and Velyka Komyshuvakha. However they suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat. Our defenders are heroically holding the line. The enemy suffers heavy losses.

21:15 Oleksandr Pavliuk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration

On April 28, two foreign delegations led by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria Kiril Petkov visited the Kyiv region. The Head of Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Pavliuk together with the Head of Kyiv Region Humanitarian Headquarters Oleksii Kuleba visited Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpin.
During their visit, the delegations saw the consequences of the aggressor’s bombing of Borodyanka and Irpin residential areas, the place of mass civilians burial in Bucha. Oleksandr Pavliuk told the honored guests about the fighting that was in these areas and the killing of civilians by the Russian military.
“The consequences of the Russian occupation are terrible. The enemy massively destroyed civilian infrastructure and killed civilians. The enemy deliberately shot at multistoried buildings, knowing that civilians lived there. The whole world must know about this. Surely, we will rebuild all localities affected by the occupation. The only thing that we will never be able to bring back is the lives of people who were ruthlessly tortured and shot by enemy troops. This is our greatest sorrow. And we will cope with everything else. We are grateful to our world partners for their support and assistance,” said Oleksandr Pavliuk.

21:13 Viktoria Ruban, spokesperson of the State Emergency Servise of the Kyiv Region

In the Kyiv region, there was a hit on infrastructural objects. Rescuers are currently working there

20:36 Kyiv City State Administration

In the evening the enemy fired on Kyiv. Two hits in the Shevchenkivskyi district. All services are in place. Information about the victims is being clarified.

20:24 Novoye Vremya

Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odesa Military Administration, announced that three cruise missiles had been shot down over Odesa, with which the enemy was trying to harm the civilian population.

The South Operational Command noted that strategic air strikes were launched in the Odesa region, launching three Kalibr cruise missiles. All the shells were destroyed by air defense forces.

19:15 Andrii Niebytov, head of the National Police in the Kyiv region

In the Makariv district of Kyiv region, a team of electricians blew up a mine. As a result of the explosion, one person was killed and two were injured.

5 more such mines were found near the place of detonation – a deadly trap left by the Russian military retreating from the territory of Kyiv region.

18:55 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 18.00 on April 28, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun).

The sixty-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. A russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The greatest activity of russian enemy is observed in Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions.

No significant changes in russian enemy’s activity have been recorded in the Volyn and Polissya areas. russian enemy aircraft continue to launch missile and air strikes on targets in Ukraine from the territory of the republic of belarus. According to available information, the aviation units of the Air Force of the russian federation continue to use the Baranovichi airfield. The air defense means of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus continue to be on duty in an enhanced mode.
In the Siversky direction, there are no signs of enemy formation of the group to resume the offensive. russian occupiers are taking measures to strengthen the coverage of certain areas of the border. Thus, additional units of the rosguard were deployed to the border zone in the direction of Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts.
In the Slobozhansky direction, russian enemy deployed up to five divisions of the Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone) mobile short range ballistic missile system in the Belgorod region. russian enemy continues to regroup its forces. According to available information, russian enemy brought a battalion tactical group of airborne troops to the territory of the russian federation to restore combat capability due to significant losses in personnel and military equipment. In addition, a battalion tactical group from the 29th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District was moved from the territory of the Belgorod region of the russian federation to the Kharkiv region. The enemy continues air reconnaissance with unmanned aerial vehicles.

russian enemy units attempted to attack the positions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in the directions of Brazhkivka and Dovhenke. They were unsuccessful, lost and withdrew. russian occupiers also tried unsuccessfully to take control of the main objects of the Velyka Komyshuvakha.
The Defence Forces of Ukraine have restored control over the settlement of Kutuzivka in the Kharkiv region.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, in order to bind our troops and hold the previously occupied frontiers, russian enemy fired on the positions of Ukrainian defence units using multiple rocket launcher systems and artillery almost along the entire line of contact.

russian enemy tried to completely capture Rubizhne, but was unsuccessful, suffered losses and retreated to previously occupied positions.
In the Kurakhiv direction, russian enemy unsuccessfully tried to advance in the directions of the settlements of Solodke and Novomykhailivka.
russian enemy continued to launch air strikes on Mariupol. The main efforts were focused on blocking our units in the area of the Azovstal plant in order to prevent their breakthrough.
In the direction of Donetsk – Zaporizhzhia, the enemy launched an offensive in the direction of the settlements Neskuchne and Vremivka, and had no success. It continues to strengthen the grouping of troops.

Ships of the occupying fleet in the Black and Azov Seas continue to launch missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine, perform tasks to isolate the area of hostilities and conduct reconnaissance.
Attempts to storm the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Oleksandrivka and Tavriyske were successfully repulsed in the Pivdenny Buh direction, Ivanivka and Zahradivka.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

17:59 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister

Another exchange of prisoners of war took place.

Today 45 of our people have been released from Russian captivity.

13 officers and 20 soldiers (including 5 wounded).

We are also 12 of our civilians returning home.

17:47 Reuters

US President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday for $33 billion to support Ukraine – a dramatic escalation of U.S. funding for the war against Russia – as well as new legal tools to siphon assets from Russian oligarchs.

17:46 Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office

Russian troops fired on the village Kotliary of the Kharkiv district.

A 53-year-old man was killed as a result of the shelling, local woman was injured. Several houses were destroyed.

16:36 Ukrainska Pravda

The occupying administration of the Russian Federation does not have “extras” to stage the so-called “referendum” in Kherson on the establishment of the “Kherson People’s Republic”.

“They have no support from the population or local self-government. They will not be able to do even something like a referendum, because it is the opening of polling stations, preparation of voter lists, in other words a lot of work, which they will not be able to do in the future in Kherson region.

Some show is possible. I will not be surprised if they will shoot this show in the Crimea or in any other region,” said Iurii Sobolevskyi, first deputy chairman of the Kherson regional council on air of Suspilne TV.

15:35 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Law enforcement officers have opened proceedings on the theft of 61 tons of wheat and other property from the territory of an agricultural enterprise in Zaporizhzhia region by the Russian invaders.

The armed Russian military, threatening to use physical violence, robbed a branch of one of the agricultural societies in the city of Kamianka-Dniprovska.

14:35 Azov Regiment

On the night of April 28, the Russian occupiers struck with multi-ton bombs at a military field hospital on the territory of the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol – there are dead and wounded.

14:26 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Three dead, three wounded. All are civilians. These are the preliminary consequences of the morning air strike that the Russians inflicted on Niu-York.

Russian unguided missiles hit an industrial plant and residential areas. At least nine private homes have been damaged, but the exact number of destructions remains to be determined.

Again and again the Russians are beating civilians – they are waging a war to exterminate the Ukrainian civilian population.

We carefully document all crimes, we will have to answer for everything!

14:15 Ekonomichna Pravda

The share of Ukrainian migrants and internally displaced persons who returned home during the war is 25%.

This was reported by Forbes, citing data from the UN, Ukrainian and foreign governments, as well as analysis of the movement of Ukrainians from Vodafone Ukraine.

About 9 million Ukrainians remain far from their own homes – more than 20% of the total population. Including 5 million are within the country, 4 million – abroad, the most – in Poland.

14:01 Serhii Bratchuk, spokesman of the Odesa Regional Military Administration

In Yakymivka, Melitopol district, Zaporizhzhia region, a railway bridge was blown up, through which the Russian military delivered weapons and fuel from the occupied Crimea

13:44 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Atrocities in Bucha – 10 Russian servicemen involved in tortures of civilians were exposed.

Their 64 separate motorized infantry brigade of the land forces of the Russian Federation was awarded by Putin the honorary title of “Guards”. Thanks from the Russian president for “mass heroism” and, in the language of the civilized world, for war crimes, are proof that the atrocities in Bucha were a task from above that they coped with. And most importantly – the joint responsibility of the commander in chief for the actions of soldiers.

Junior Sergeant Vyacheslav Lavrentyev
Private Grigoriy Naryshkin
Private Vasily Knyazev
Corporal Semyon Maltsev
Private Sergey Peskarev
Private Albert Radnaev
Corporal Mikhail Kashin
Corporal Andrey Bizyaev
Corporal Dmitry Sergiyenko
Sergeant Nikita Akimov.

In a very short time, the investigation established that during the occupation of Bucha they took unarmed civilians hostage, killed them with hunger and thirst, kept them on their knees with their hands tied and their eyes glued, mocked and beaten. Fists and butts of rifles were used. People were beaten out for any information about the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Territorial Defense Forces, and some were tortured for no reason at all. Russian servicemen threatened to kill the victims and even imitated the execution of their prisoners by firing in their direction.

We have evidence that, of course, these servicemen of the world’s first marauding army robbed the local population, taking away personal belongings and “trophy” appliances.

The role and participation of each of them in these crimes has been established through investigative and coordinated work of prosecutors and police officers, and their personal data have also been collected by Slidstvo.Info journalists. We are currently testing the mentioned ten for involvement in the Bucha massacre.

12:43 Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

Once again, civilians in Kharkiv region are suffering from shelling by the occupiers!

In the Kharkiv district, Russians hit civilian infrastructure, streets of settlements, squares and even cemeteries.

As of now, there are 4 wounded and 1 dead in Kharkiv district. The information is being clarified.

Half an hour ago, the Russians struck one of the eastern districts of Kharkiv. 2 victims, 1 person, unfortunately, died.

12:36 Suspilne TV

The German Bundestag overwhelmingly voted in favor of supplying heavy weapons to Ukraine. This was reported by Deutsche Welle.

12:29 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

The United Nations World Tourism Organization has voted to suspend Russia’s membership.

Most of the 160 member countries supported this decision at an extraordinary meeting of the organization.

12:17 Ukrainska Pravda

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who arrived in Ukraine on a visit, visited Borodianka.

“I imagine my family in one of these houses, now ruined and black. I see my granddaughters fleeing in panic. In the 21st century, war cannot be acceptable.”

12:11 Suspilne TV

In Popasna, the Russian army destroys all utilities, schools, and kindergartens, and continues to kill Popasna residents. Head of the Popasna military administration Mykola Khanatov reported about it on air of the Rada TV channel.

12:08 Mariupol City Council

Cholera, dysentery and colibacillus. About 100,000 Mariupol residents are in mortal danger not only due to shelling, but also intolerable living conditions and poor sanitation.

11:57 Center for Strategic Communications of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy

Russians say Ukraine seeks to invade Transnistria for “largest ammunition depot in Eastern Europe“

Kovbasna is a small village located near the border with Ukraine. Its value is the presence of an ammunition depot – “the largest in Eastern Europe”, as propagandists write.

The Russians are convinced that his capture will allow Ukraine to fight for 10 years. Therefore, after the spam attacks on the local population, “Ukrainian saboteurs and drones” immediately appeared in and above Kovbasna.

In fact, these compositions are already 73 years old. The last time they were replenished was during the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the territory of the former “people’s democracies” in 1989-1994.

All this rubbish is stored under the protection of Russian troops. And so the Kremlin’s “geopoliticians” thought that Ukraine was so disarmed (despite the regular growing supply of modern weapons) that it “will not cope without Kovbasna.”

11:23 Security Service of Ukraine

Russian invaders continue to grossly violate the laws and customs of war. They are afraid to fight Ukrainian defenders, so they are preparing provocations that could affect the civilian population.

This is evidenced by the new telephone conversations of the occupiers, which were intercepted by the SSU.

The Russians rejoice and hope that TNT will destroy everything and everyone around it and it is not at all embarrassed by the presence of civilians in the village.

11:04 Ukrainska Pravda

The Azov Regiment said that last night the Russian occupiers launched about 50 airstrikes and dropped a large number of phosphorous bombs on Mariupol, and called on the authorities to take decisive measures to unblock the city or evacuate residents and defenders.

10:37 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

According to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, officials of the Russian Orthodox Church have received instructions to agitate the parents and relatives of young Russians to encourage them to sign a contract for military service.

Propagandists in robes at the behest of the Kremlin preach the doctrine of “Russian peace,” which does not correspond to Orthodox teachings.

10:36 Suspilne

On April 28, three dead dolphins were found on the shores of the Tuzla Estuaries National Nature Park in the Odesa region. Ivan Rusiev, an ecologist and head of the park’s research department, told Suspilne correspondents about this.

According to him, there are no traces of nets or cut tails on the dead dolphins, which could indicate the actions of poachers. It is unknown how many animals have died in the Black Sea so far, because, he says, it is impossible to inspect all parts of the sea coast due to hostilities.

“The Russians have blocked shipping in the Black Sea and mined part of its waters. They are constantly firing powerful shells from the surface and submarines. Barbarians also use military sonar and this has a negative impact on animals,” said the ecologist.

Ivan Rusiev is convinced that Russian troops can use sounds at the level of 200 decibels and even higher, emitted by a special transmitter on board. As a result, dolphins cease to respond well to echoes and lose acoustic control over the environment. As a result, animals can be thrown ashore and die.

10:17 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 28.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 22800 (+400) persons were liquidated,

tanks – 970 (+31),

APV – 2389 (+47),

artillery systems – 431 (+10),

MLRS – 151 (+2),

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 72 (+1),

aircraft – 187 (+2),

helicopters – 155,

vehicles – 1688 (+22),

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 215 (+8),

special equipment – 31,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

The Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses of the past day in the Zaporizhzhia and Izium directions.

Data is being updated.

10:01 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Disinformation theses of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on the situation in Ukraine over the past day.

Russian propaganda is inventing new victorious terminology and reports that “there are signs of a local breakdown in Ukrainian defence in the Kramatorsk-Sloviansk and Sievierodonetsk-Lysychansk directions.”

The Kremlin media and the Russian Ministry of Defense do not explain what the signs are, but in the same context, they provide information on increasing the pace of Russia’s offensive and the pontoon crossing of the occupiers across the Siverskyi Donets River.

With the lack of tangible achievements in the goals of capturing the entire Donbas and southern Ukraine, Russian propaganda is resorting to inventing new terminology. Thus, “signs of a local breakdown of the Ukrainian defence” are nothing more than “negative buoyancy after the clap on the destroyed Moskva missile cruiser.”

9:48 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

In the morning, an explosion of an enemy’s missile was recorded in Zaporizhzhia. According to preliminary information, two houses in the private sector were damaged. The attack was carried out by racist aircraft, using X-55 air-to-ground missiles. It is currently known about three injured, one of them a child. The information will be clarified, details later.

9:46 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

“To ensure employment” – the “Transnistrian region” announced a military training assembly.

The unrecognized “Transnistrian Moldavian Republic” is strengthening its army. The letter of the Ministry of Defense of Transnistria to the heads of local administrations reveals information on the drafting of citizens to the “special assembly”. It is noted that the purpose of the meeting is to “ensure 100% staffing of the Peacekeeping Contingent of the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, as well as to provide employment for the working population of the republic.”

Men under the age of 55, who are guaranteed “financial and material security, accommodation and food”, can take part in the meeting. Financial support for unemployed citizens is promised from 2,800 “rubles of Transnistria”. The meeting itself will last 90 days.

Despite the formal voluntary participation in the meeting, there is information that the draft will be coercive.

It is noteworthy that the letter is dated April 21. That is, before the beginning of the last Russian provocations on the territory of “PMR”. This is reminiscent of the events in the so-called “LNR/DNR”.

9:41 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

The invaders fired on the Sloviansk resort. On April 26, 2022, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out an air strike on Sloviansk, as a result of which the buildings of the state enterprise Sloviansky Kurort (Ukrainian trade union’s resorts), namely the hospital buildings, were severely damaged.

8:45 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

We have an “arrival” in Synelnykove district. Aimed at the former factory. There was nothing there.

The orcs successfully “demilitarized” the abandoned industrial zone.

8:37 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Three floors in the Sievierodonetsk hospital were damaged, and light and water disappeared. The Russians fired on the medical facility on April 27 at about 11:00.

“There are only two hospitals left in the Luhansk region that provide assistance to the affected population, in Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. As you can see, the Russian army has somewhat limited the capabilities of one of them. Three floors were destroyed. On one of them, there was a direct hit of a shell in a hospital ward. The woman who was there died on the spot. By the way, she was hospitalised last week with shrapnel wounds to her legs,” Haidai wrote.

The boiler room and warehouses on the territory of the medical institution were also damaged. Light and water disappeared in the hospital after the shelling. Doctors continue to work.

8:31 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of April 28, 2022:

Manipulation: Even though the world has recognized the events in the Kyiv region as genocide, Russian officials continue to claim that “to spread false information about the provocation in Bucha, the West is mobilizing existing non-governmental organizations”;
Manipulation: “Leaders” collaborators of the Kherson region stated that “the return of the Kherson region liberated from Ukrainian nationalists back under the control of Ukraine is excluded”;
Disinformation: Russian propaganda, citing obscure military experts, said that “the Kyiv regime has begun throwing territorial defence units from Western Ukraine at Donbas, as the Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering serious military losses on the battlefield.”

8:20 Energoatom

Due to the damage to the 330 kV high-voltage line in the southern region of Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia NPP was moved to a capacity level to ensure sustainable operation of the power system, at which only its own needs are provided.

8:08 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 26, more than 610 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. The death toll remains the same – 217 children were killed, but two more were wounded – 393 received injuries of varying severity.

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 129, Kyiv – 114, Kharkiv – 93, Chernihiv – 66, Kherson – 44, Mykolaiv – 43, Luhansk – 37, Zaporizhzhia – 27, Sumy – 17, the capital – 16, and Zhytomyr – 15.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

7:05 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Heavy shelling of Lysychansk destroyed 13 houses.

The city suffered from Russian fire throughout the day on April 27.

“Lysychansk is a large settlement. The easier it is for the Russians to hit somewhere, the harder it is for Ukrainian rescuers to react quickly. Ignition due to shelling occurs almost throughout the territory, which is almost 100 square kilometres,” Haidai wrote.

Two houses were hit last night. Firefighters extinguished the fire. The situation was much more complicated during the day when the flames engulfed eight houses at once. And in the evening the Russians hit three more.

Also, three houses in Novodruzhesk, a shop in Sievierodonetsk, a carpentry workshop in Hirske and a transformer that can no longer be repaired caught fire. The last object is destroyed, so people will be without light and mobile communication.

In total, 21 fires caused by shelling by the occupying troops of the Russian Federation were eliminated in one day.

7:02 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the #russian_invasion on 06.00 on April 28, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The sixty-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. The russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

russian enemy continues to carry out offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land route with the occupied Crimea.

russian enemy increases the pace of the offensive operation. In almost all directions, the russian occupiers are exerting intense fire. The greatest activity is observed in Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions.

No significant changes in the activities of russian enemy units were noted in the Volyn and Polissya areas.

By maintaining an appropriate set of troops, russian enemy is trying to ensure the maintenance of the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the northern direction and prevent their movement to the Eastern Operational Zone.

In the Slobozhansky direction, russian enemy group continues to strike and fire artillery on the city of Kharkiv.

The main efforts of russian occupiers are focused on the Izium direction. russian enemy is trying to launch an offensive in the directions of Sulyhivka – Nova Dmytrivka and Andriivka – Velyka Komyshuvakha.
In order to strengthen the advancing group, russian occupiers additionally moved airborne units to the city of Izium, as well as up to 500 units of technic.
In the Donetsk direction, russian enemy group continues to take active action on the line of contact. The main efforts are focused on surrounding the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

To achieve this goal, in the Lyman direction, russian enemy has improved its tactical position, trying to develop an offensive on the village of Lyman. russian invaders are carrying out preparatory measures for forcing the Siversky Donets River.
In the Severodonetsk direction, russian enemy is attacking the settlement of Orikhove.
In the direction of Avdiivka, in order to capture Marinka and Ocheretyne, russian enemy exerts intense fire.
In the Kurakhove direction, with the support of artillery, russian occupiers are conducting an offensive in the directions of Staromayorske – Velyka Novosilka and Lyubimivka – Zelene Pole.
In the Tavriya direction, russian enemy units continue to conduct demonstrations and maneuvers in order to mislead and prevent the transfer of Ukrainian troops to other areas.
russian occupiers continue to use Melitopol airfield for the base and flight of Su-25 attack aircraft, Ka-52 attack helicopters and Mi-8 transport and combat aircraft.
In the South Buh direction, russian enemy’s group focuses on the Kherson-Mykolayiv and Kherson-Kryvyi Rih directions.

As a result of the assault, russian enemy established itself in the area of the settlement of Tavriyske, trying to carry out a fire defeat on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the areas of the settlements of Oleksandrivka and Nova Zorya. In the areas of settlements Stanislav and Molodetske, there are the increases of the russian units of jet and barrel artillery.
In order to correct and assess the results of the fire damage, russian enemy conducted air reconnaissance in the area of the settlement of Zatoka.

During the previous day, eight air targets were hit by units of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Air Force and the Land Forces: one plane, one cruise missile and six UAVs of operational and tactical level.

russian occupiers continue to suffer losses on land. In the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts only, six enemy attacks have been repulsed in the past 24 hours, five tanks, one artillery system, twenty-two armored vehicles, one car and one anti-aircraft gun have been destroyed.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

6:45 Ukrainska Pravda referring to Kirill Stremousov, self-proclaimed “deputy head” of the occupiers’ administration of Kherson region

Starting from May 1, the occupiers are going to introduce Russian rubles in the Kherson region.

Stremousov says that the “transition period” will take up to 4 months: both the ruble and the hryvnia will go, and then there will be a full transition to the ruble.

5:25 Suspilne TV

Canada’s House of Commons unanimously supported a resolution recognizing Russia’s actions in Ukraine as genocide.

1:06 Operational Command “South”

In the area of Molodetsky and Velyka Oleksandrivka, enemy ammunition depots were destroyed by double hits.

During the day in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, the enemy tried to improve their tactical position towards Mykolaiv, but didn’t succeed.

Our units, supported by artillery, repulsed the enemy’s attack near Novohryhorivka and two near Oleksandrivka.
Effective conduct of hostilities by our divisions broke enemy preparation for attack in the direction of Mykolaivka.
In the Novovorontsovka area air defense units “hunted” another “Orlan-10”
The total losses of the enemy for the day amounted to 49 persons and 14 units of equipment, of which 6 – armored, 3 vehicles, 3 units of missile, artillery, and anti-air weapons, as well as rear equipment.
In the area of Molodetske and Velyka Oleksandrivka, enemy ammunition depots were destroyed by double hits.

Meanwhile, in the center of Kherson, on Svobody Square, the Russian occupiers threw light and noise and gas grenades at pro-Ukrainian protesters. There are wounded and detained. But Kherson residents chanted “Kherson is Ukraine!” Through smoke and pain.

Although the occupying power tried to speed up the referendum, the insidious plan failed.

Tensions are rising on the southwestern border of Ukraine. The influence of the Russian propaganda machine on the government of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian region continues. Provocations with explosions and shootings are carried out, information intrusions about rocket attack, threat of terrorist attack from Ukraine are systematically organized.

In the Black Sea Operational Zone, a naval group of Russian fleet with submarines remains ready to launch missile strikes on Ukraine.

1:05 Ukrainska Pravda referring to the legislature of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

The Russian Krasnoyarsk Krai has decided to replenish its own fund of agricultural products through illegal supplies from the occupied territories of Ukraine.

“Deputies at the meeting almost unanimously supported the decision to import grain from the Kherson region, which was partially taken under the control of the RF Armed Forces.

As there is only one cucumber plant in the region, and the shortage of other vegetables and grains due to foreign sanctions is acute not only in Krasnoyarsk Krai but also at the federal level, the expropriation of last year’s surplus and current crops of Kherson region will be one of the tools, providing assistance to small businesses, consumer cooperatives.”

🔵27.04.2022

23:31 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

The Russian military seized the Melitopol City Museum of Local Lore. Collaborators pointed out to the Russians the place where Scythian gold is stored, which was discovered by archaeologists in the 1950s.

Residents of the temporarily occupied Vasylivka reported artillery shelling this afternoon. Sounds came from the train station and in one of the residential areas of the city.

In Zaporizhzhia, local fighting continues along the entire line of contact. Russian troops continue their attempts to advance east of Huliaipole, seize Velyka Novosilka, and improve the tactical position of their army in the direction of Zaporizhzhia. They have no success and eave with losses.

The problem of constant pressure of the occupiers on local authorities to force them to resign by writing statements also persists in Vasylivka.

The Prosecutor General’s Office has launched a pre-trial investigation into suspicion of self-proclaimed mayor of Enerhodar Andriy Shevchyk in collaborationism.

In the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region, the occupiers are inspecting the homes of local residents in search of representatives of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. In addition, the invaders are conducting a census: the Russians prohibit from moving without identity documents.

Robbery and removal of property from Melitopol enterprises is getting full-scale. Thus, according to Melitopol residents, at the beginning of the week a convoy of trucks with sealed state registration numbers and escort cars was recorded, which was taking out the remains of agricultural machinery and grain from the elevator to the Crimea.

According to Reporters Without Borders, the Russian military is interrogating and searching journalists in Melitopol, Berdiansk, Enerhodar, and Tokmak. They also seize equipment from media workers and take hostages those who refuse to cooperate.

In Berdiansk, “Misksvitlo” (City Electricity) municipal enterprise stopped its work due to inability to work in the legislative field of Ukraine. According to the executive committee of the Berdiansk City Council, the company’s work will be resumed after the situation in the region stabilizes.

22:32 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi

Russia launched a provocative mortar shelling. There were more than fifty attacks during the last half an hour, all on the Esman territorial community. Data on the victims are being clarified.

22:20 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on April 27, 2022:

Fake: The Russian Defense Ministry said that “Ukrainian experts are preparing a staged situation allegedly with the death of civilians as a result of Russian shelling. Broken vehicles, as well as the bodies of Ukrainian servicemen disguised in civilian clothes, are being delivered to the central market of Lysychansk”;
Manipulation: Despite friendly relations between Ukraine and Romania, MP of unrecognised Transnistria Andriy Safonov said that “Transnistria is hindering the possible absorption of Ukrainian territories by Romania”;
Disinformation: Propagandists of the Russian Federation reported that “a hospital for servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was equipped in the Kostiantynivka City Hospital (Donetsk Region), and all patients, regardless of their state of health, were expelled from the institution.”

22:01 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

Today, the invaders continued to fire artillery, mortars, and MLRS on Kharkiv and the region. 1 civilian was killed, 3 were injured, and 2 of them are in critical condition. Three people, including a 14-year-old child, were injured in the shelling of the Chuhuiv district.

Fighters of the Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region have captured five occupiers.

21:13 Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration

The Russians continue to launch missile strikes on the Odesa region, so they want to achieve at least some success until May 9.

On April 27, the enemy struck the bridge across the Dniester estuary again, repairing work is currently underway, and operation of the bridge has been temporarily suspended.

21:06 Ukrinform

The General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organization voted by a majority to exclude Russia from the organization.

According to Ukrinform, this was announced by the head of the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine Maryana Oleskiv.

19:59 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 27, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The sixty-third day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

In the Volyn, Polissia, and Siversky directions, the situation did not change significantly, no signs of the formation of offensive groups by the Russian enemy were found.
In Slobozhanshchyna, the Russian enemy carried out systematic artillery shelling, including multiple rocket launchers, in the cities of Kharkiv and Derhachi and the settlement of Prudianka.
In the direction of Izium – Barvinkove, Russian occupiers attempted an offensive in the area of Nova Dmytrivka. They were unsuccessful, lost, and left.
In the Donetsk and Tavriia directions, the Russian enemy continues to shell the positions of our troops along the line of contact with mortars and artillery.
The Russian enemy made an unsuccessful attempt to break through the defences of Ukrainian troops in the Kurakhovo area.
In the South Buh area, units of the occupying forces, under cover of artillery fire, continue to improve the engineering equipment of the positions, replenish stocks of material and technical means, ammunition, and fuel, and conduct air reconnaissance. Russian occupiers tried to improve the tactical position of their troops in the direction of Zaporizhzhia. They have no success, they are left with losses.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kharkiv region, near the village of Levkivka, Izium district, the Russian enemy organised a collection point for damaged equipment, where military equipment is being repaired and restored. Russian invaders continue to carry out so-called “filtration measures” in some settlements temporarily out of control of the Ukrainian authorities.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian occupiers are inspecting the houses of residents to identify the places of residence of representatives of the security forces of Ukraine. Carrying out a census of the local population, movement in the temporarily occupied territory without identity documents is prohibited.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, Russian occupiers are preparing for a so-called “referendum”, bulletins are being printed, and personal data of local citizens of Ukraine are being clarified. At the same time, Russian invaders continue to prevent civilians from leaving the occupied territory.
In the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, due to numerous provocations from Russia, a “red” level of the terrorist threat has been introduced. The personnel of the security forces were transferred to the “barracks state”, the control at the checkpoints was strengthened, and the preparations for the May 9 holiday parade were cancelled.
The Russian enemy is demoralised. Personnel who are taken to replenish losses from the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions have their personal documents confiscated, which will not allow them to be identified in the event of death. There have been more and more cases of enemy soldiers searching for new ways to avoid participating in hostilities. Personnel resort to desertion, captivity, and self-mutilation.

19:30 Ukrinform

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Ukraine after visiting Moscow.

On Thursday, Guterres will hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

19:26 Evropeiska Pravda

The Swiss government has vetoed the re-export of Swiss-made ammunition used in Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns, which Germany plans to supply to Ukraine.

This was reported by the Swiss TV channel SRF

18:42 Evropeiska Pravda

Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie has announced new sanctions in response to Russia’s illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.

These new measures impose restrictions on 11 high-ranking officials and 192 other members of the “people’s council” of the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, who are involved in the Russian regime’s continued violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

17:41 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The occupiers are preparing a propaganda press tour for loyal media in Mariupol.

A large-scale political provocation is being prepared in an attempt to attract some Western journalists. For this purpose, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation is planning a so-called “press tour” for loyal representatives of foreign media on April 28. The arrival of “journalists” on the territory of Ukraine is organised through the Russian Rostov-on-Don.

The program of the event includes “alternative facts” about the defence of Mariupol. Trained “witnesses” will say that Ukrainian defenders allegedly bombed the city and killed locals. To confirm this version, trained provocateurs will be presented as “eyewitnesses” who will tell about the mythical “mass killings of civilians by the Ukrainian military.”

16:04 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov

Starlink Ukraine as a representative of SpaceX has just registered in Ukraine.

15:11 European Pravda

The European Commission has proposed today to suspend for one year import duties on all Ukrainian exports to the European Union.

“The proposal, which is an unprecedented gesture of support for a country at war, would also see the suspension for one year of all EU anti-dumping and safeguard measures in place on Ukrainian steel exports,” the statement said.

15:00 Ukrinform

The Russian invaders stole all valuable exhibits from the Museum of Local Lore and the Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol. The originals of the paintings of Arkhyp Kuindzhi and Ivan Aivazovskyi were taken out.

14:50 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy according to Ukrainska Pravda

G20 President and Indonesian President Joko Widodo has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to take part in the G20 summit.

14:16 Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Serhii Shkarlet

The enemy continues to shell educational institutions. Yesterday it was one of the schools in Lysychansk. At that moment, 23 people were hiding in her basement, including children. The walls stood, saving the lives of citizens.

Statistics on the destruction of kindergartens, schools, and universities are growing daily. As of today, 102 educational institutions have been destroyed, and 1412 institutions have been damaged.

14:11 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (an international military-political organisation that includes Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan) are reluctant to take part in the war against Ukraine.

13:52 Ukrinform citing Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Law enforcement agencies reported in absentia the suspicion of a captain and major of the Russian armed forces who tortured prisoners of war and civilians in the village of Bohdanivka, Kyiv region.

13:48 Security Service of Ukraine

The SSU neutralised an enemy agency that was gathering intelligence on the defensive lines of Ukrainian troops and the deployment of aircraft of the Armed Forces. Among the detained are uncovered agents who have worked out ways to escape to Crimea in case of failure of the operation.

13:31 Austrian Foreign Ministry

“We stand united with the people of Ukraine, who fell victim to unprecedented military aggression by Russia. As an important sign of our unwavering solidarity with Ukraine, members of our Embassy returned to Kyiv last week. Thanks to our staff for your efforts and dedication!” the statement on its Twitter said.

13:18 Ukrinform

Russian invaders are forcing Zaporizhzhia NPP staff to hang a portrait of Putin and take part in the May 9 celebrations at Enerhodar.

Petro Kotin, head of NNEGC Energoatom, said this on the news telethon, Ukrinform reports.

“The invaders are preparing for a sacred event – May 9. They walk around with their Colorado ribbons (Saint George’s ribbons – a Russian military symbol that resembles the colours of the Colorado potato beetle, a common pest on Ukrainian soil – ed.) and are forced to hang a portrait of Putin at the station. So everyone can go and spit on this portrait, I guess,” said Kotin.

13:06 Suspilne citing CNN

A new video from a drone, obtained by CNN, shows Russian military equipment and troops on the streets of Bucha, where the bodies of dead civilians lie. CNN confirmed the authenticity of the video and the date of filming. It took place on March 12 and 13.

12:12 Security Service of Ukraine

The military leadership of the Russian Federation reduces the real losses of the occupiers in the war in Ukraine. This is evidenced by new interceptions of the SSU.

12:12 State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Pyrotechnic units of the SES continue to demine areas and dispose of ammunition.

Chernihiv region. There are 44 sappers and 17 units of special equipment in the Chernihiv, Chernihiv, and Nizhyn districts.
Kyiv region. 21 pyrotechnic teams from the State Emergency Service are clearing the territory of Bucha, Brovary, and Vyshhorod districts of mines and shells.
Cherkasy region. In Uman and the Uman district, 29 pyrotechnicians and 9 units of equipment are involved.

11:53 Ukrainska Pravda

A pro-Ukrainian protest was dispersed in Russian-occupied Kherson. The occupiers used tear gas. Four people were injured and burned.

Kherson regional council deputy Serhii Khlan confirmed that the Russians had injured several people. There are reports of a woman with chest burns and a ruptured lung and a 50-year-old man with a broken leg. People lost coordination, could not breathe, and several had chemical burns to their eyes.

11:45 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

Ukrainian military shot down an enemy missile over the Dnipropetrovsk region.

11:30 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

The Russian occupiers twice fired prohibited phosphorus shells at Avdiivka.

“First, they fired near the coke plant last night. This morning – in the city centre. As a result, several fires broke out in the city. Following the second shelling, the Russians launched an airstrike on Avdiivka, aiming at a high-rise building. At least one person was wounded,” Kyrylenko wrote.

According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed an attempt by Russian troops to break through in this direction.

10:30 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 27.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 22400 (+300) persons were liquidated,

tanks ‒ 939 (+21),

APV ‒ 2342 (+34),

artillery systems – 421 (+5),

MLRS – 149 (+0),

Anti-aircraft warfare systems – 71 (+2),

aircraft – 185 (+1),

helicopters – 155 (+1),

vehicles – 1666 (+23),

boats / cutters – 8 (+0),

fuel tanks – 76 (+0),

UAV operational-tactical level – 207 (+2).

special equipment – 31 (+0).

mobile SRBM system – 4 (+0).

Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses (of the past day) in the Kurakhove and Izium directions

Data are being updated

Strike the occupier! Let’s win together! Our strength is in the truth!

10:08 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

In the morning, Hirske was hit by an airstrike – at least one person was killed

Since 5 a.m Russian troops are continuously shelling the settlement of Hirske. MLRS “Grad” and artillery are used. An airstrike was inflicted. Many destructions, the body of one victim has already been found. The search continues. An electric substation also burned down in Hirske.

10:04 Security Service of Ukraine

The special services of the Russian Federation arrange staged stories in the Russian media: foreigners are forcibly taken out of Kherson to the Crimea for PR purposes. The SSU has obtained evidence that FSB officers are fabricating fakes by organizing the forcible evacuation of people from the temporarily occupied territories.

9:57 Security Service of Ukraine

The special services of the Russian Federation arrange staged stories in the Russian media: foreigners are forcibly taken out of Kherson to the Crimea for PR.

The SSU has obtained evidence that FSB personnel officers are fabricating news by organising the forcible evacuation of people from the temporarily occupied territories.

That was discovered since the SBU gained access to the phone of an FSB officer. He supervised the creation of a “picture” for the occupiers in the Kherson region.

9:00 Detector Media citing the joint statement of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, and media representativesRepresentatives of the authorities and the Mediarukh journalistic community have agreed that to comply with all necessary security conditions, journalists can gather information on the ground immediately after the shelling. At the same time, it is allowed to publish photos and videos taken by the media and journalists about the events at the site of hostilities after 12 hours for military facilities, after 3 hours for civilian facilities.

8:29 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of April 27, 2022:

Manipulation. Despite the continued supply of weapons, the Russian media report that some countries have already exhausted their stockpiles and refuse to send them to Ukraine. In particular, “the Bundeswehr has halved the list of arms exports, and Bulgaria is still delaying supplies.”
Misinformation. Belarusian propagandists accuse the West of unwillingness to cease hostilities. This was stated by Belarusian MP O. Haidukevich: “Russia is interested in signing a peace treaty with Ukraine, but the United States wants to maintain this source of tension.”
Fake. Russian propaganda, citing unidentified military experts, said that “US weapons could be depleted in a few months if the White House continues to supply Ukraine.”

8:21 Office of the Prosecutor General

217 children died in Ukraine as a result of armed aggression by the Russian Federation

More than 610 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to official data, as of the morning of April 27, the number of child victims has not changed – 217. The number of injured has increased – more than 393.

These figures are not final, as work is underway to establish them in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

The most affected children were in Donetsk region – 129, Kyiv region – 114, Kharkiv region – 93, Chernihiv region – 66, Kherson region – 44, Mykolaiv region – 43, Luhansk region – 37, Zaporizhzhia region – 27, Sumy region – 17, Kyiv city – 16, Zhytomyr region – 15.

8:16 Oleksandr Kamyshun, head of board of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways)

Today at 6:45 a second rocket attack on the same bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Odesa region. There are no injured railroad workers. The degree of damage to the infrastructure can be determined after the air alarm.

8:00 Evropeiska Pravda referring to UK Defence Ministry intelligence report

Ukraine keeps control of most of its airspace, while Russia has failed to effectively destroy the Ukrainian air force or suppress the Ukrainian air defence system.

The agency notes that Ukraine continues to put Russian aircraft at risk.

The British Foreign Secretary is against limiting support for Ukraine only to defence weapons

Russian aircraft are mainly concentrated in the south and east of Ukraine, providing support to Russian ground forces. Russia has very limited access from the air to the north and west of Ukraine, limiting offensive operations with deep strikes with long-range weapons, the review said.

Russia continues to strike at Ukrainian military facilities and logistics infrastructure across the country.

Most Russian air strikes on Mariupol are likely to be carried out by uncontrollable free-falling bombs. These weapons increase the risk of civilian casualties.

7:41 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

The occupiers fired on the Zelenodolsk community with artillery. They hit an energy infrastructure enterprise. Oil leak and severe fire are registered.

Rescuers put out the fire for several hours. One employee of the company was injured. Now in the hospital. Zelenodolsk, the villages of Maryanske and Velyka Kostromka came under fire.

6:57 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational information as of 06.00 on 27.04.2022 regarding the Russian invasion

The sixty-third day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion began.

The enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The enemy’s offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone continue in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and to maintain the overland corridor with the occupied Crimea.

The greatest activity of the occupying forces is observed in the Slobozhanshchyna and Donetsk directions.

The enemy is taking measures to replenish its units that suffered casualties during hostilities. In particular, by removing it from storage in warehouses and bases of military districts. Transportation of equipment to the territory of Ukraine is usually carried out by rail.

The occupiers continue to launch missile strikes on residential neighborhoods in Ukraine.

In the Slobozhanshchyna direction, the enemy continues to launch air strikes and hit the infrastructure of the city of Kharkiv with artillery.
In the Izium direction, units of the 1st Panzer Army, the 20th General Army of the Western Military District, the 35th General Army and the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District and Airborne Forces are conducting offensive operations in the direction of Barvinkove. The enemy captured the northeastern outskirts of the settlement of Velyka Komyshuvakha, and also took control of the settlement of Zavody.

In order to increase the grouping of troops, the occupiers transferred from the territory of the Belgorod region to the city of Izium two battalion tactical groups from the 76th Airborne Assault Division of the Airborne Forces. In addition, in the areas of settlements of the Belgorod region, the enemy deployed two missile divisions of OTRK “Iskander-M”.

In the Donetsk direction, enemy units are conducting active operations along almost the entire line of contact. The main efforts of the enemy are focused on offensive operations in the Severodonetsk, Popasna and Kurakhove areas in order to take full control of Popasna, Rubizhne and the development of the offensive on the Lyman, Severodonetsk and Sloviansk.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy established control over the settlement of Zarichne, carried out assault operations in the area of the settlement of Yampil.
In the Severodonetsk direction, the invaders established control over the settlement of Novotoshkivske, and launched an offensive in the direction of the settlements of Nyzhnie and Orikhove.
In the Mariupol direction, the enemy is exerting massive fire and blocking our units in the area of the Azovstal steel factory. In the city, the occupiers continue to carry out filtering measures against the civilian population.
In the Southern Buh and Tavriia directions, the enemy is using the available forces and means to focus its main efforts on maintaining the previously occupied frontiers and exerting fire on the positions of our troops. In the Mykolaiv, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia directions the enemy tries to improve the tactical position. To this end, it regroups units, increases the system of fire damage, and conducts air reconnaissance.

The occupiers are carrying out filtration measures in the districts of Kyselivka and Stanislav in the Kherson region with the help of Rosgvardiya units.
In the Tavriia direction, enemy units carry out engineering equipment for positions and replenishment of reserves.

There are no significant changes in the Volyn, Polissia and Sivershchyna directions.
Our soldiers have hit seven air targets the day before: a Su-25 plane, a Ka-52 helicopter, three operational-tactical UAVs and two cruise missiles.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts alone, nine enemy attacks were repulsed, nine tanks, eleven artillery systems, four units of special and seventeen units of armored vehicles, three units of special engineering and sixteen units of motor vehicles, four units of motor vehicles, four units of motor vehicles, four anti-aircraft installation.
Military Transport, Fighter, Bomber and Assault Aviation of the Air Force continues to perform tasks in the airspace of Ukraine.

During the sudden air raids, the Russian occupiers suffered significant losses in their positions. As a result of air strikes, a lot of enemy equipment and manpower were destroyed.

We will talk about the total losses of the occupiers in a separate report later.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

1:10 Operational Command “South”

On the eve of a pseudo-referendum in the Kherson region, the occupation authorities are trying to appoint their “leadership” from among local collaborators, continuing to agitate and try to bribe the local population with food. We are grateful to the people of Kherson region who are invincible in the face of hostile intrigues.

Meanwhile, our troops continue to fight on the frontline.

The enemy tried to advance towards the Mykolaiv region near the villages of Tavriiske and Nova Zoria, but was unsuccessful, suffered significant losses and retired.
In the Black Sea operational zone, our forces inflicted damage on enemy positions on Snake Island. The hit at the control point, the destruction of the Strila-10 anti-aircraft missile system, and the losses of the Russians are being clarified.

The naval group of the enemy fleet was partially diminished.

Odesa region was attacked by 3 cruise missiles, hitting the bridge across the Dniester estuary was recorded. No one was injured. Traffic is partially restricted. Restoration works are underway.
The enemy continues to shake up the situation with provocations around Transnistria, organizing imitations of terrorist attacks, announcing missile strikes and sending messages to residents of Transnistria on behalf of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with panic calls for evacuation. The Russian group of troops in Transnistria has been put on full alert.

The security and defense forces of the south of Ukraine continue to perform their assigned tasks, effectively counteracting challenges and threats.

0:47 Ukrinform referring to Hanna Maliar, Deputy Minister of Defence

Russia has launched 1,300 missiles on Ukraine, and their reserves in Russia have halved.

“According to our data, their stocks have already more than halved during the time they have been actively using them on the territory of Ukraine since February 24.

Approximately the numbers that are called are more than 1,000 missiles they have already used. More precisely, more than 1,300 missiles.

If you consider that it has halved, you can roughly calculate how much is left,” said Maliar.

She added that these are missiles of air, sea and ground bases.

0:23 Dmytro Lunin, head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration

More than an hour ago, in some areas of Poltava and its suburbs, many locals heard the sound of explosions. As of now, we have no information about “arrivals”, destruction of infrastructure, casualties, or downed missiles.

🟡26.04.2022

22:39 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

In Berdiansk, the occupiers seized two medical facilities. It is now known that one of them has been assigned a manager selected from the collaborators. And the traitor of the Ukrainian people is Mykola Miroshnychenko, who until recently volunteered and helped to evacuate from the grey zone, is now appointed by the Russians as head of the city’s health department.
In the temporarily occupied village of Kinski Rozdory, Polohy district, the occupiers are looting and conducting a census. According to local residents, the Russian military have settled in a school, hospital and are in the village council. In the village, the invaders are digging trenches to hide their military equipment.
In general, the occupiers are trying to broadcast Russian television and radio in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region.
In Melitopol, the occupiers blocked humanitarian corridors: food, medicine and evacuation are currently not possible. The Russians continue to kidnap civilians, and collaborators are recruiting incompetent workers and ex-criminals. In addition, the occupiers are preparing to celebrate on May 1 and 9 on a grand scale and parade, as well as trying to start the educational process in schools and kindergartens.
In the Melitopol district, the Russian occupiers mined the area near the Kamyana Mohyla archeological site, dug trenches in the villages near the reserve, and set up camp close to the village of Terpinnia. Thus, the invaders are trying to gain a foothold in the Zaporizhzhia land and at the same time hope to prevent the guerrilla resistance movement in the Melitopol district.
The air defense forces of the Zaporizhzhia region shot down a missile near the village of Spasivka.
Russian missiles hit Vasylivka today. Thus, the occupiers are once again trying to convince civilians of their outright lies, as if the Armed Forces of Ukraine are firing on civilians. However, residents of Vasylivka do not believe in such provocations.
In Novodanylivka, Polohy district, a private house, a shop, and a motoblock with a trailer were destroyed during the Russian shelling. In addition, there is no gas supply in the village since the weekend, no electricity or water supply. Locals say that the village is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. Many people have left, but there are those who are not ready to leave their homes.

22:10 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on April 26, 2022:

Misinformation. According to the statement of the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Patrushev, “the number of Ukrainian migrants in the EU will increase to 10 million in the near future.” In view of this, he reported about the “projected deterioration of the criminal situation in Europe due to Ukrainian bandits.”
Fake. Despite the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fighting to protect the population from the enemy, the Russian Defense Ministry said that in the home for the elderly in the city of Lyman militants equipped a base, and staff and the elderly are kept as human shields.”
Manipulation. Propagandists of the Russian Federation reported that “neo-Nazis installed radio-controlled explosive devices near the Mykolayiv Aircraft Repair Plant, which they plan to detonate during crowds collecting and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of doing so.”

22:04 Ukrainska Pravda

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he has agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin to evacuate civilians from Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol with the participation of the UN and the ICRC

21:59 Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

The enemy does not stop shelling the city of Kharkiv and settlements of the region. Civilians suffer from the occupiers’ blows. Today, as a result of the shelling of Kharkiv, 3 people were killed and 7 were injured.

In Zolochiv 3 people were injured, 1 more was wounded in Chuhuiiv, 1 person was injured in Dergachi.

19:30 Evropeiska Pravda referring to Polsat News and RMF24

According to unofficial information, Russia has stopped supplying gas to Poland, the probable reason being the refusal to pay for it in rubles. EU countries, including Poland, disagreed to do it.

According to the Onet portal, last Friday in Poland the term of payments for gas in Russian currency expired. The Polish operator PGNiG has repeatedly stated that it will not pay in rubles, as contracts do not require it.

19:25 Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration

By striking the bridge across the Dniester estuary in Zatoka, Russia has tried to cut off part of the Odesa region and create tensions amid events in unrecognized Transnistria.

19:01 Evropeiska Pravda

German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has allowed Krauss-Maffei Wegmann to sell Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns to Kyiv.

18:37 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational information as of 18.00 on 26.04.2022 regarding the Russian invasion

The sixty-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues.

The Russian Federation continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

Groups of enemy troops are conducting an offensive operation in the Eastern Operational Zone. The main goal remains the encirclement and defeat of the Joint Forces, the establishment of full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and creating a land corridor to the occupied Crimea.

The enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure.

In the Slobozhanshchyna direction, enemy groups from the 6th All-Military Army of the Western Military District, the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets continue to partially block Kharkiv and fire on it.

In the Izium direction, enemy units and subdivisions of the 1st Panzer Army, the 20th and 35th All-Military Armies, the 68th Army Corps and the Airborne Forces, supported by artillery, are advancing in the direction of Barvinkove. In order to reconnoiter the positions of our troops, the enemy continues to use UAVs in this area.
In the areas of the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, the Russian occupiers continue to hold field camps to restore combat readiness and train units. According to available information, up to five battalion tactical groups of the enemy are in the immediate vicinity of the state border of Ukraine in this area.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is taking active action along almost the entire line of contact. The main efforts are focused on taking control of Rubizhne, Popasna and Marinka.

In the Severodonetsk direction, as part of the regrouping of troops in the direction of Kreminna, the occupiers moved to a tank battalion from the 90th Panzer Division, as well as a pontoon-bridge unit from the 12th separate engineering brigade of the Central Military District.
To develop the offensive in the direction of Lyman, the enemy is building up a group of troops.
Russian invaders do not stop artillery shelling and air strikes on Mariupol. The blocking of units of our troops in the area of the Azovstal plant continues.

In the Southern Bug and Tavriia directions the enemy continues to hold the occupied frontier, in some areas it tries unsuccessfully to improve the tactical position, improves the engineering equipment of its positions. Carries out shelling of positions of our armies.
In the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, units of the operational group of Russian troops have been put on alert “Full”, the security forces have been transferred to a reinforced mode of service.
In the Volyn, Polissya and Sivershchyna directions, certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus perform tasks to strengthen the protection of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.

Ukrainian defenders are defending themselves and continue to systematically inflict losses on the Russian occupiers.

Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

18:03 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

Residents of the unrecognized “Transnistrian Moldavian Republic” receive SMSs on behalf of the Armed Forces and special services of Ukraine. They contain a warning about a “missile and artillery” strike on the territory of the “Transnistrian region”.

▪️We note: the Ukrainian state has nothing to do with this and similar provocations.

▪️Such fakes and incidents that are likely to take place on the territory of the Transnistrian region are nothing more than another provocation of the Russian special services against Ukraine and Moldova.

16:28 Ukrainska Pravda

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that the explosions in Transnistria and escalation attempts were linked to forces inside the unrecognized region.

“According to current information, the forces of the Transnistrian region are trying to escalate the situation in the Transnistrian region. These are pro-war forces, they are interested in destabilizing the situation,” Sandu said, noting that Moldovan authorities continue to gather and examine information.

15:01 Evropeiska Pravda

A strategic meeting of the Ukraine Security Consultative Group with the participation of more than 40 countries, including those that are not members of NATO, is being held at the US Air Force Base Ramstein in Germany.

In his speech, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called the meeting historic, noting that its goal is to help Ukraine win the war launched by the Russian invasion and prepare Ukraine’s defense capabilities for future challenges.

14:24 Ukrinform

Large commercial banks in Estonia have announced the cessation of payments to Russia and Belarus, as well as from there, in connection with the full-scale war started by Russia in Ukraine.

This was reported by the national broadcaster ERR, which monitored the actions of banks.

14:15 Odesa City Council

A missile strike was carried out in the Odesa region. There is damage to the bridge across the Dniester estuary. Circumstances and information about the victims are being clarified. For security reasons, the bridge is blocked.

13:07 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

In Popasna the house collapsed as a result of missile strike, three people died, one woman survived

13:02 Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

The occupiers are again shelling peaceful areas of Kharkiv.

As a result of the last shelling – 3 people were killed, 7 people were injured, information is still being clarified. There are no children among the victims, but 2 people are in serious condition

12:59 Azov Regiment in Mariupol

Azovstal steel factory, where the defenders of Mariupol are located and civilians are hiding in the basements from shelling, continues to be covered by enemy fire.

Last night alone, 35 air strikes were carried out, during which one of the factory’s departments caught fire. But most importantly, they affected civilians who are now trapped. Soldiers of the Azov Regiment provide first aid and make every effort to free civilians from the rubble.

12:56 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

The Russians continue to purposefully shoot at civilians and destroy critical infrastructure.

At least 2 civilians are currently killed in Niu-York and Travneve, as well as 6 wounded (in Marinka, Velyka Novosilka, Niu-York and Lyman).

12:44 Ukrainska Pravda

Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, during an online briefing on April 26

“I can describe to you the horrible situation that is happening in Rubizhne. “Orcs” (Russians) are kidnapping children and then forcing women, their mothers, to go to the positions of the Ukrainian military under the auspices that they allegedly need humanitarian aid. To take some humanitarian kits or products there and then to go back and tell how the positions of Ukrainian defenders are arranged. If women do not do that, they threaten to shoot children.”

12:26 Ukrinform

Russian military kidnapped at least 200 civilians in the Kyiv region for an “exchange fund”.

With reference to the data of the public organization “Media Initiative for Human Rights” , the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security reports this in the Telegram.

12:20 Ekonomichna Pravda

Poland has approved its first sanctions list, which includes Russia’s Gazprom, a number of Russian and Belarusian oligarchs – a total of 50 legal entities and individuals.

This was announced by Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski, the ruling PiS party wrote on Twitter.

11:54 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol

The humanitarian situation remains difficult. Despite the opening of the “public bath” and a lot of propaganda about the availability of food and water, food is catastrophically lacking. Moreover, the occupiers switched to the shameful practice of providing food for men only if they were involved in the work. Therefore, men are forced to take part in the disassembling of the rubble, the arrangement of mass graves literally so as not to die of starvation.

11:35 Security Service of Ukraine

The Russians continue to grossly violate international rules for the treatment of prisoners of war

Torture of Ukrainian men and women is massive and continues even in Russia, where they are taken out to “knock out information.”

This is evidenced by a telephone conversation between the Russian occupier, who is currently in Ukraine, and his acquaintance, a member of the Russian secret services.

11:32 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

In Chechnya, prisoners are being sent to the war with Ukraine, including relatives of the opposition

The Chechen branch of the FSB is collecting information on local prison inmates to send them to the war zone. Correspondence of FSB officials contains a requirement to provide personal data of convicts

11:02 Land Forces Command of AFU

In the Kherson region, the Russian occupiers left a complete, serviceable BTR-D landing armored personnel carrier and fled.

10:42 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Information on the morning enemy’s attack

It is now known that two Russian cruise missiles hit the territory of one of the city’s enterprises in the morning. The third rocket exploded in the air. Infrastructure facilities of the enterprise were damaged and destroyed. All relevant emergency services are working on the place.

According to preliminary information, one person was killed and one was injured. The consequences of the incident are currently being eliminated, so the number of victims can be clarified.

Earlier it was reported that at 6:50 “arrivals” were recorded.

10:32 Hennadii Lahuta, head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration

Last night the occupiers seized the premises of the Kherson City Council and removed the flag of Ukraine.

During the two months of occupation, the city council remained one of the local authorities operating under the yellow and blue flag. I would like to thank the staff of the institution and the mayor Ihor Kolykhaiev.

Unfortunately, the situation with the capture of the city hall is expected, because the Ruscists follow a single scenario and such actions have become commonplace for them. But we will never accept any tricolors or Soviet flags, because Ukraine is in our hearts.

10:31 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

Russia is trying to make up for the loss of its troops by promising sky-high salaries and the possibility of looting for joining the army

After the catastrophic losses in Ukraine, in order to restore the combat capability of military units, the Russian command is trying in every possible way to involve the Russians in military service under contract.

If in the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine men are forcibly mobilized and sent to their inevitable deaths, in the central regions of Russia they are invited to contract service with promises of high salaries, social benefits and opportunities for impunity and looting.

According to the military intelligence of Ukraine, only in the Central Military District of Russia for the period January – April 2022, 2,861 contracts for military service were concluded.

It is worth noting that most Russians, despite the high probability of death in Ukraine, are encouraged to do military service by their parents and relatives. This is the mystery of the Russian soul… and the opportunity to earn on the death of relatives.

10:15 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 26.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 22100 (+200) persons were liquidated,

tanks – 918 (+34),

APV – 2308 (+50),

artillery systems – 416 (+5),

MLRS – 149,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 69,

aircraft – 184 (+3),

helicopters – 154,

vehicles – 1643 (+77),

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 205 (+4),

special equipment – 31 (+3),

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data is being updated.

10:13 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Disinformation theses of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on the situation in Ukraine over the past day.

Russia reported on the “liberation” of Novotoshkivsky and the shelling of 8 regions of Ukraine: Poltava, Kharkiv, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Volyn, Luhansk, and Donetsk.
The enemy continues to destroy settlements, calling it “liberation,” and killing Ukrainians, calling it “the destruction of military facilities with high-precision long-range weapons.”
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, all targets hit by Russian missiles are military, and all killed Ukrainians are Nazis.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, 608 children have been injured in Russia’s armed aggression in Ukraine. According to official figures, 217 children were killed and 391 injured.

Most children were injured in Donbas, where the occupiers, according to their fictional version, “stopped the genocide of the population, which was committed by the Ukrainian government against its citizens for 8 years.”

9:01 Energoatom

Today, at 6:41 and 6:46, two enemy cruise missiles flew at low altitude over the Zaporizhzhya NPP site in the direction of Zaporizhzhia. Later, explosions from Russian missiles were recorded in the city.

8:47 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of April 26, 2022:

Disinformation: Propagandists of the Russian Federation reported that the military formations of the occupied districts of the Donetsk region seized the OSCE archives in Mariupol, where “reports of the organisation were found, documenting the war crimes of the Armed Forces that were not included in official records.” “Mines were also found in the room, indicating the OSCE’s links to arms supplies to Kyiv”;
Fake: The Russian Defense Ministry said that neo-Nazis had set up a base in a residential building in Avdiivka, arranged firing points on the upper floors and heavy equipment in the yard, covering themselves with residents as a “human shield”;
Manipulation: Even though Ukraine is waging a defensive war, the Russian media reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired on the border villages of Nekhotiivka, Zhuravlivka, and Golovchyno in the Belgorod region.

8:14 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 26, more than 608 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 217 children were killed and 391 received injuries of varying severity.

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 127, Kyiv – 114, Kharkiv – 93, Chernihiv – 66, Kherson – 44, Mykolaiv – 43, Luhansk – 37, Zaporizhzhia – 27, Sumy – 17, the capital – 16, and Zhytomyr – 15.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

8:01 Head of the Stanislav community according the Suspilne Kherson

In Stanislav, a missile damaged the central water supply system on the Bilozirske highway, leaving people without water. Repairs will continue during the day.

7:58 Ukrainska Pravda citing the UK Ministry of Defence

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 26 April 2022

Russian forces are likely attempting to encircle heavily fortified Ukrainian positions in the east of Ukraine.

The city of Kreminna has reportedly fallen and heavy fighting is reported south of Izium, as Russian forces attempt to advance towards the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk from the north and east.

Ukrainian forces have been preparing defences in Zaporizhzhia in preparation for a potential Russian attack from the south.

7:41 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

17 times the Russians fired on civilians in the past day. Fighting continues in Popasna and Rubizhne. Popasna, Lysychansk, and the Hirske Community suffered the most. Popasna withstood four powerful artillery attacks, and Lysychansk withstood two. There is damage to two houses in Lysychansk, two – in Popasna, at least one – in Hirske. Information on casualties is being verified.

6:58 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 26, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The sixty-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy continues to carry out offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land route with the occupied Crimea.
In the Volyn and Polissia directions, the condition, position, and nature of the Russian enemy’s actions did not change significantly. The Russian enemy did not take active action in these areas. Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus on a rotational basis perform tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions.
In the Northern direction, there were no signs of the Russian enemy forming a strike group to resume offensive operations. In the districts of Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions adjacent to Ukraine, the Russian enemy has strengthened the protection of the border and checkpoints and is conducting engineering equipment for positions. Russian occupiers in border areas have intensified anti-sabotage measures.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy is strengthening groups of troops, continuing to partially blockade the city of Kharkiv, and firing on units of Ukrainian troops and critical infrastructure.
Russian invaders are trying to launch an offensive in the direction of the settlement of Zavody. Fighting continues.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy is moving command and control points closer to the line of combat.
Russian enemy fires on the positions of Ukrainian troops with the use of mortars, artillery, rocket-propelled grenade launchers along the entire line of contact, as follows:

in the Sievierodonetsk direction, the Russian enemy is fighting in the area of the settlement of Rubizhne;
in the Popasna direction Russian enemy is trying to capture Popasna, the battles continue;
in the Avdiivka direction Russian enemy tries to conduct offensive actions and has no success;
in the Kurakhiv direction Russian enemy unsuccessfully carried out offensive operations in the direction of the settlements of Novomykhailivka and Marinka;
in the Zaporizhzhia direction, the Russian enemy is conducting offensive operations in the direction of the settlement of Trudoliubivka, fighting continues.

The Russian enemy is carrying out a massive fire and blocking Ukrainian units in the area of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy, along the entire line of contact, carried out single shellings of Ukrainian units. Reconnaissance activity around the administrative border of the Mykolayiv area is noted.
In the area of the settlement of Velyka Oleksandrivka, Kherson regions, the defenders of Ukraine destroyed an ammunition depot and a large number of Russian enemy personnel (more than 70 Russian enemies were eliminated). The exact number of dead is being clarified.
Units of Russian occupiers also suffered personnel losses in the area of the settlements of Novodmytrivka and Bilousove.
Russian occupiers continue to plunder the local population in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation are trying to conduct air reconnaissance over the territory of Odesa region. They suffer losses.
Ten air targets were hit by a grouping of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the previous day: three planes, four UAVs of operational and tactical level, and three cruise missiles.
In the past 24 hours, six Russian enemy attacks have been repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, four tanks, five artillery systems, thirteen units of armoured vehicles, fifteen units of motor vehicles, two tankers and one anti-aircraft gun have been destroyed.

1:39 Ukrainska Pravda citing the UK Ministry of Defence

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 25 April 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has significantly disrupted Ukrainian agricultural production.

The Ukrainian grain harvest for 2022 is likely to be around 20 per cent lower than 2021 due to reduced sowing areas following the invasion.

Ukraine is the fourth largest producer and exporter of agricultural goods in the world. Reduced grain supply from Ukraine will generate inflationary pressures, elevating the global price of grain.

High grain prices could have significant implications for global food markets and threaten global food security, particularly in some of the least economically developed countries.

🔵25.04.2022

22:42 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

One of the ways to restore the occupiers’ manpower is to forcibly mobilise men in the occupied territories of the region. For example, the Russians are completely blocking the exit from Melitopol to conduct a so-called “conscription campaign”.

The occupiers continue to hang their flags on the administrative buildings of the temporarily occupied territories. It happened today in Vasylivka. At the city council building, the Russians replaced the Ukrainian flag with a tricolour, and are urging Ukrainian officials to cooperate. In addition, residents claim that the occupiers appointed their “mayor” – Natalia Romanichenko.

A new collaborator was also found in the temporarily occupied Mykhailivka of Vasylivka district. Ivan Sushko became acting head of the occupation administration of the town.

In addition, according to locals, the invaders went from house to house, looking for weapons and members of Anti-Terrorist Operation/Joint Forces Operation, confiscating valuables and building materials, stealing cars, and using them for personal gain. The Russians are shooting a staged video in which residents of Mykhailivka allegedly surrender their weapons voluntarily as an act of demilitarisation. The occupiers are collecting information about every resident of Mykhailivka. People are intimidated because those who show the pro-Ukrainian position are kidnapped and taken away in an unknown direction.

In the temporarily occupied Enerhodar, employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation are carrying out filtration measures.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has opened a criminal case on the fact of the shelling of the village of Kamianske, which killed three men working in the backyard. The pre-trial investigation is being carried out by investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine in Zaporizhzhia region.

22:35 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

The enemy can plan provocative explosions on the dam of the Karlivskyi Reservoir.

Several pro-Russian Telegram channels covering the Russian war against Ukraine reported that “in the town of Karlivka (occupied Donetsk region) nationalist battalions mined the dam of the Karlivka Reservoir.”

At the same time, referring to the Russian Defence Ministry, the propagandists report that “in the event of an explosion of the dam in the flood zone there will be 6 settlements with a total population of over 10 thousand people.”

Such information intrusions may be an informational and psychological operation of the occupiers, but given the nature of the enemy’s war against Ukraine, the possibility of implementing such a plan cannot be completely ruled out.

22:27 Chairman of the Board of Ukrzaliznytsia Oleksandr Kamyshin

One railway worker was killed and four were injured.

Earlier it was reported that this morning within an hour 5 railway stations in central and western Ukraine came under fire.

22:18 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

In the afternoon, the enemy continued to fire on peaceful areas of Kharkiv and the region. Saltivka is suffering again. A large-scale fire broke out as a result of Russian shells hitting a 12-storey residential building. Destroyed apartments on the 3rd and 4th floors. In Kharkiv, 4 civilians were injured in the shelling of the occupiers.

In addition, the enemy continued to fire on Kharkiv and Zolochiv districts. In Derhachi and neighbouring villages, 3 civilians were killed and 1 was injured. In Zolochiv district – 1 dead, 4 wounded.

22:04 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on April 25, 2022:

Manipulation: despite Iryna Vereshchuk’s statement that there were no agreements on humanitarian corridors with Azovstal, the Russian Defence Ministry said that “Kyiv authorities disrupted a humanitarian operation” on civilians hiding in the plant;
Fake: despite previous reports that Russian security forces were collecting wreckage of downed Ukrainian drones to prepare for provocations, several Russian Telegram channels reported that the Bayraktar strike drone, which is in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was shot down in the Kursk region;
Manipulation: Russian propagandists reported that the Russian village of Nekhoteevka in the Belgorod region was “fired upon by Ukraine.” According to the Russian media, “residential buildings and personal vehicles were damaged.”

21:57 Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Maryna Lazebna

More than 2 million Ukrainians became IDPs after martial law was imposed.

Today, the Unified Database on Internally Displaced Persons contains information on 3.4 million people. More than 2 million of them are people who were displaced after martial law. And 1.9 million of them were forced to move for the first time.

Most people after the large-scale military invasion of Russia moved to Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Kyiv regions. In general, most internally displaced persons are registered in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kyiv regions.

21:27 28th Separate Mechanised Brigade named after the Knights of the First Winter Campaign

Unsuccessful in the offensive, the enemy resorted to information and psychological operations and sent messages to the residents of the Mykolayiv and Kherson regions to create panic in the Ukrainian territories.

21:15 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration

Tonight there was a provocative shelling of the Bilopillia community territory from enemy positions located in Russia. There are no casualties.

21:01 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The explosions in the so-called “Transnistrian Moldavian Republic” are a planned provocation by the Russian special services. Three days before the incident, the leaders of the “republic” were already preparing for it and took care of the installation of a secure bunker. According to available information, the FSB will continue a series of provocative terrorist attacks on the territory of the Transnistrian region.

20:33 Kherson Mayor Ihor Kolykhaiev and City Council employees in comments to Ukrainska Pravda

On the evening of April 25, the Kherson City Council was captured by the Russian military. The flag of Ukraine was removed from the building. The Russian military seized the keys to the building. The mayor and employees of the City Council were given the opportunity to go home. From Tuesday, April 26, the city council will not work.

20:02 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

On April 25, the Russians killed four more residents of the Donetsk region: 2 in Lyman, 1 in Marinka, and 1 in Yampil.

Both victims in Lyman are children. The Russians took the lives of a 9-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy.

Nine others were injured in the area.

After injuries received in the Luhansk region, one person died in Bakhmut, and two others provided medical treatment.

19:54 Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksandr PavliukDemining work is underway in the Kyiv region. Almost 22,000 explosive devices have already been neutralised.

19:22 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 25, 2022.

The sixty-first day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy continues to carry out offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land route with the occupied Crimea.
Russian troops, including strategic bombers, ships, and submarines, are launching missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure. They are trying to destroy the ways of supplying military-technical assistance from partner states. To do this, concentrate strikes on railway junctions.
The Russian enemy continues to increase the long-range air defence system by moving additional anti-aircraft missile systems from the territory of the Russian Federation, trying to create stocks of ammunition, logistics, and special engineering equipment.
The Russian command does not stop searching for ways to replenish personnel losses in units directly involved in the war on the territory of Ukraine.
There were no significant changes in the Volyn, Polissia, and Siverskyi directions. No signs of enemy offensive formations were found.
In the Slobozhanshchyna region, Kharkiv is being partially blocked, its infrastructure is being destroyed, and the positions of the defenders of the Kharkiv region are being destroyed with the use of aircraft and artillery.
In the area of the city of Izium, the enemy tried to improve the tactical situation in the directions Andriivka – Zavody and Dibrovne – Kurulka. Carries out measures of logistical support of the group of occupiers.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy, intensifying shelling with available means of fire destruction, tried to advance deep into the territory of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Koroviy Yar and Rubizhne, to develop an offensive in the direction of Zaporizhzhia. It was unsuccessful and suffered losses.
In Mariupol, including strategic bombers, ships, and submarines enemy continues to destroy the city, blocking locals and some of our defenders in the area of the Azovstal plant.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy is concentrating its main efforts on the Kherson-Mykolayiv and Kherson-Kryvyi Rih directions. Conducts regrouping of troops, consolidates on the ground, strengthens the grouping of barrel and jet artillery, accumulates ammunition and fuel.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, in the urban-type settlement of Velyka Oleksandrivka, the occupiers announced to the local population that it was necessary to leave the settlement by April 28. Forced evacuation will be applied to residents who do not comply with the order.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region, in the city of Enerhodar, employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation continue to carry out filtration activities.
In the temporarily occupied territories of the Kharkiv and Luhansk regions, the occupiers are engaged in looting, theft, and robbery of the local population. Particular attention is paid to the “removal” of alcoholic beverages and food.
Ukrainian defenders are defending and inflicting losses on enemy troops in areas where active hostilities continue.

19:21 Head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Maksym Marchenko

On the morning of April 25, the enemy tried to strike from the coastal complex Bastion in the Odesa region from the occupied Crimea.

One missile fell into the water, the other was shot down by Ukrainian air defence units.

18:53 European Pravda

In Transnistria, explosions were reported near the building of the Ministry of State Security in Tiraspol.

Newsmaker reports that the Transnistrian Interior Ministry has confirmed information about the explosions. It is reported that around 5 pm several explosions took place in the building of the Ministry of State Security.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he considered a possible Russian attack on Moldova, but did not provide evidence to support this claim.

It is known that in Transnistria – the occupied part of Moldova – Russian military units are located, which since 2014 do not have a stable connection with Russia and do not have supplies.

18:33 Radio Liberty with reference to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

From 4 a.m. on 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to midnight on 24 April 2022 (local time), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 5,718 civilian casualties in the country: 2,665 killed and 3,053 injured.

OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration. This concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), and Popasna (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.

17:33 Radio Liberty

The satellite recorded the third place of mass burial near Mariupol. The excavated trenches appeared in the cemetery of the Russian-occupied village of Staryi Krym, 5 km from the city. The length of the trenches reaches more than 200 metres.

15:27 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk

Iryna Vereshchuk refuted Russia’s statement about agreements on humanitarian corridors with Azovstal in blocked Mariupol.

“We have asked UN Secretary-General António Guterres to initiate and guarantee the humanitarian corridor for civilians from Azovstal. In particular, we ask representatives of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to be present in the humanitarian column,” Vise Minister stated.

14:42 Chairman of the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mayor of Kyiv Vitalii Klychko

The heads of two communities in the Zaporizhzhia region, Novouspenivska and Kyrylivska, Ivan Senyk and Ivan Malieiev, have been released from Russian captivity.

8 Ukrainian mayors continue to be held captive by the Russians. Their fate remains unknown.

14:31 Vinnytsia Regional Prosecutor’s Office

Five people were killed and 18 others were injured in Russian missile strikes on the railway infrastructure near the towns of Zhmerynka and Koziatyn in the Vinnytsia region.

13:47 Head of the Rivne Regional Military Administration Vitalii Koval

As a result of Russian missile strikes on the railway infrastructure in the Zdolbuniv district, about 20 nearby houses were damaged and one person was injured.

13:47 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

After the liberation of cities in the Kyiv region, new atrocities of Russian troops are revealed.

Forensic experts found sharpened steel darts in the bodies of residents of Bucha and Irpin.

With them, the occupiers launched shells, which bombed residential buildings in the city and its surroundings.

In Bucha, liberated from the Russian occupiers, locals found hundreds of these small darts in their private estates. Shells exploded over apartment buildings, and thousands of darts flew several metres around.

Warheads filled with shrapnel exploded over the city as Russian troops prepared to leave the area.

Such darts were used during the First World War against infantry. Due to the indiscriminate nature of the action and the uncontrollability of weapons, the use of such weapons in densely populated cities is a violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and a crime against humanity.

13:41 Security Service of Ukraine

The Russian occupiers are trying to reduce the resistance of Ukrainians and launch new fakes. This time, they distributed a fake chatbot on the Internet with a similar to the official name, which differs by only a few letters.

Official SBU chatbot @t.me/stop_russian_war_bot

The SBU receives thousands of reports about the deployment and movement of the enemy through the bot.

12:48 Ukriform

The International Skating Union has deprived Russia of the right to host the 2022/2023 Figure Skating Grand Prix. According to the ISU press service, these competitions were to take place on November 25-27, 2022.

12:34 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Russia has not abandoned plans to use chemical weapons against Ukrainian defenders and civilians at Azovstal

12:09 Ukrinform with reference to Reuters

Activists from the international non-governmental environmental organisation Greenpeace on Monday blocked a tanker that was supposed to deliver Russian oil to Norway, tying itself to a ship in protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

11:54 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

To justify their inability to occupy Mariupol and storm Azovstal, the Russians are spreading fake information that “Ukrainian oligarchs” ensure the stay of private armies in Ukraine and attract new ones.

11:52 Security Service of Ukraine

Russian occupiers cynically shoot schoolchildren and the elderly.

Moreover, the artillery shelling of children who go to school with backpacks is called a manifestation of “courage.” At first, children are allowed to walk calmly but immediately plan to fire when they return.

The SSU made this shocking audio interception in the south of Ukraine. The recording shows a conversation between the commander of the Russian reconnaissance battalion and a reconnaissance fire adjuster.

11:52 Suspilne

Korosten Mayor Volodymyr Moskalenko said in a morning address on the Facebook page of the Korosten TV channel that an explosion had been recorded in the city. “A missile exploded closer to the railway area. We are still finding out the details. There is no information about the dead. We will have more specific information later.”

11:28 European Pravda

The commander of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Valdemaras Rupšys in an interview with LRT said that Russia’s strategic defeat in the war in Ukraine could possibly fuel revanchist sentiment in Russia, and a new war should be expected in 5-10 years.

11:27 Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Today, the Russians opened fire on an evacuation bus at the entrance to Rubizhne. No one was injured.

11:10 Ukrinform citing the Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak

The invaders sent a video to the mother of the Ukrainian prisoner of war with her son, demanding money to save his life.

11:05 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians de-energized a new 500 kV substation in Kreminna, leaving the entire Luhansk region without electricity.

“The recently built power substation near Kreminna was de-energized by the Russian army on April 25. Currently, all settlements in the Luhansk region are without electricity. We are working out alternative options for the electric power supply of the region.

This 500 kV substation in peacetime gave power to most of the cities and villages of the region. Also, electricity used to come from Luhanska TPP in the town of Shchastia. Transformer units of the latter were destroyed by the enemy, and the Russians are unable to repair them. So, to this day, the substation in Kreminna has remained the only source of electricity supply to the houses of Luhansk residents,” Haidai said.

10:48 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The enemy projectile hit the gas pipeline in Lysychansk. 46 settlements (113,604 households) remain without gas supply – 30 fully and 8 partly.

10:36 Head of the Lviv Region Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi

Today, on April 25, at about 8:30 a.m., an explosion occurred at the traction substation of the Krasne railway station as a result of a missile strike.

Structural units of the State Emergency Service are working at the scene, the fire is still being extinguished.

There is no information about the victims as of this hour.

One missile was destroyed in the Lviv region by anti-aircraft missile units of the West Air Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The missiles flew to the west of Ukraine from the south-eastern direction, the Russian occupiers fired them from strategic aircraft, probably Tu-95.

Data is being updated.

10:28 Head of the Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration Serhii Borzov

Zhmerynka and Koziatyn under missile fire. The enemy is trying to attack critical infrastructure. There are victims, and there are wounded. Rescue services are working.

10:21 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 25.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 21900 persons were liquidated,

tanks – 884,

APV – 2258,

artillery systems – 411,

MLRS – 149,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 69,

aircraft – 181,

helicopters – 154,

vehicles – 1566,

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 201,

special equipment – 28,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Over the past day, the Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Sievierodonetsk direction (30th independent motorised infantry brigade of the 2nd Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District of the Armed Forces of Russian Federation).

10:17 Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venedictova

According to the prosecutor’s office, as of April 25, 3,818 civilians were killed and more than 4,000 were injured in Ukraine.

10:01 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Disinformation theses of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on the situation in Ukraine over the past day.

Russia is predicting a “quick victory” over the Azov Battalion in Mariupol for the fourth time.

“Ukrainian nationalists on the territory of the Azovstal plant for various reasons did not have long”, – the propaganda media write.

According to the analysis,

On April 19, Kadyrov had already triumphantly declared that “the Bandera people in Mariupol will be” finished “today”;
Kadyrov’s April 21 forecast was that Azovstal would be completely under the control of the Russian military today “before or after lunch”;
After this prediction of Kadyrov did not come true, in the evening Sergei Shoigu gave a new forecast, specifying that “it takes 3-4 days to complete the operation in Azovstal.”

It will be recalled that Putin officially ordered not to storm Azovstal, but, in fact, the fighting on the territory of the plant has not stopped for 2 months.

9:37 Energoatom

Today, April 25, 2022, at 08:10, two cruise missiles fired by the Russian military were recorded over the Khmelnytska NPP cooling reservoir, probably in the direction of the cities of Rivne or Zdolbuniv.

9:32 Chairman of the Board of Ukrzaliznytsia Oleksandr Kamyshin

This morning, within an hour, 5 railway stations in central and western Ukraine came under fire. At least 16 passenger trains will be detained. There are victims. Details will be clarified.

8:29 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of April 25, 2022:

Manipulation: propaganda media in Russia began to spread the thesis that “the United States does not impose sanctions on Alina Kabayeva for fear that Vladimir Putin will react aggressively; this means only one thing – the Americans are afraid of the wrath of the Russian leader”;
Disinformation: according to the statement of the commander of the illegal armed group “Pyatnashka” (in the occupied territory of the Donetsk region), “the Ukrainian military has problems with ammunition.” At the same time, it was reported that the defenders of Ukraine lost most of the equipment transferred by the West;
Manipulation: “After the start of the war in Ukraine, the West failed to turn most of the world against Russia, and the countries that represent the majority of humanity have not taken any position in this conflict,” – said the Russian propaganda media.

8:22 Head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration Dmytro Lunin

9 enemy missiles hit the Kremenchuk thermal power plant and again the refinery the night before. One person died. Seven people received injuries of varying severity. There is significant damage to buildings, but all fires are localised. There is no hot water in almost all districts of the city due to the shelling of the thermal power plant.

8:13 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 25, more than 606 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 215 children were killed and 391 received injuries of varying severity.

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 124, Kyiv – 114, Kharkiv – 93, Chernihiv – 66, Kherson – 44, Mykolaiv – 43, Luhansk – 37, Zaporizhzhia – 27, Sumy – 17, the capital – 16, and Zhytomyr – 15.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

7:32 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 25, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The sixty-first day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, and secure a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea.
In the Volyn, Polissya, and Seversky areas, the Russian enemy did not take active action, no significant changes in the position and activities of enemy units that protect the Ukrainian-Belarusian and Ukrainian-Russian sections of the state border of Ukraine were detected.
In the Slobozhansky direction, Russian occupiers continue shelling with artillery and rocket-propelled grenade launchers in the settlements of Kharkiv, Karasivka, Prudianka, and Kororbochkino.
In the directions of Izium – Barvinkove and Izium – Slovyansk, the Russian enemy unsuccessfully tried to carry out assault operations and carried out shelling in the areas of the settlements of Velyka Komyshuvakha, Virnopillya, and Nova Dmytrivka.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy carried out artillery shelling on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the city of Mariupol, the Russian enemy launched missile and bomb strikes on the positions of Ukrainian troops on the territory of the Azovstal plant. The Russian enemy conducts assault operations on the village of Popasna.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy fired at the positions of our troops in the areas of the settlements of Knyazivka and Mykolaivka.
Ukraine’s Defence Forces inflict heavy losses on the enemy. In the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts only, seven enemy attacks have been repulsed in the past 24 hours, thirteen tanks, three artillery systems, seventeen armoured vehicles, four armoured combat vehicles, eighteen vehicles, and four tankers have been destroyed. Three Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defence units in the area.

6:50 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

On Easter, the entire region came under heavy Russian fire. Three high-rise buildings and four private houses burned down. Several cars, including trucks, were involved in an accident due to enemy fire. People were rescued from the rubble and broken vehicles. For the third time, the Russian army has hit an oil refinery in Lysychansk. Information on possible consequences is being verified.

4:58 Suspilne citing the European Commission’s executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis in the interview to The Times

The European Union may include restrictions on Russian oil imports in its sixth package of sanctions against Russia.

“One of the issues we are considering is some form of an oil embargo. When we are imposing sanctions, we need to do so in a way that maximises pressure on Russia while minimising collateral damage on ourselves,” Dombrovskis said.

He added that the details of the sanctions have not yet been agreed upon but may include the phasing out of Russian oil or the introduction of export tariffs over a certain price limit.

2:35 Ukrinform citing the Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

The Russian invaders took one of the factories from Vovchansk, Kharkiv region, to the territory of the Russian Federation, and set up a concentration camp there to torture residents.

“A prison has been set up on the premises of the plant, a real concentration camp, where people are subjected to certain tortures, forced to cooperate, to join the Russian armed forces,” Syniehubov said.

He also added that the enemy carried out similar actions in the occupied Izyum to “mobilise” the local population.

0:41 Operational Command “South”

Ukrainian divisions provided control over the territory near 5 more settlements of the Mykolaiv region near the administrative border with the Kherson region.

In the Mykolayiv and Kherson regions, the enemy continues to conduct defensive operations on the occupied frontier and artillery and mortar shelling of settlements and Ukrainian army positions.

Strengthening of intelligence activity towards the administrative border of the Mykolaiv area is noted. The attempt to advance two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the enemy by Ukrainian units was thwarted. After suffering losses of up to 50% of the groups, the Russians retreated.

🟡24.04.2022

22:50 Spokesman for the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration colonel Ivan Arefiev

At about 10:00 a.m., shelling began in Vasylivka. The missiles, according to locals, flew to the places where the consecration of Easter cakes was announced, and the attack itself occurred immediately with the beginning of the church service. At the same time, the Russians are spreading false information that it is alleged that Ukrainian soldiers are shooting at civilians.

In addition, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers are introducing measures restricting the rights and freedoms of civilians, including freedom of movement.

22:48 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

The Avdiivka Coke Plant came under fire from the Russian BM-21 “Grad”.

Today, when Orthodox Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, the Russians killed five people in the Donetsk region. Among the dead are two children aged 5 and 14 from the village of Krasnohorivka, Ocheretyn community. Three more people died in Novoselivka and Novomykhailivka.

22:25 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

During the current day, April 24, the troops of the Allied Forces successfully repulsed 7 enemy attacks.

In particular, Ukrainian defenders destroyed:

13 tanks,
3 artillery systems,
17 units of armoured vehicles,
4 combat armoured vehicles,
18 units of motor vehicles,
4 enemy fuel tanks.

Air defence units shot down 3 Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles in the skies of the Ukrainian Donbas.

22:01 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

The main topics promoted by the Russian media last week:

1. The Orthodox population is oppressed in Ukraine;

2. A powerful information attack is being carried out against Russia;

3. Ukraine loses the war.

How propagandists covered this topics:

1. Ukrainians are forced to move from the Moscow Patriarchate to the Ukrainian one. Greek Catholics were informed about the shelling on Easter, and believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate were not told how they were in danger;

2. The West continues to develop Russophobia around the world. Russian athletes are not allowed to compete even under a neutral flag. In Switzerland, Tchaikovsky’s opera was cancelled due to the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine;

3. Mariupol was liberated from the Nazis. Russia is successfully implementing plans for the second stage of the “special operation”. US military experts say Ukraine is losing the war.

20:44 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

On Easter night, the occupiers struck at the districts of Oleksiivka, Saltivka, and Northern Saltivka in Kharkiv. Three people were injured.

During the day, Russian invaders fired on Zolochiv and Chuhuiv districts. According to preliminary data, 11 people were injured, including an 11-year-old child (Chuhuiv – 6, Malynivka – 5, Zolochiv – 1).

2 people died in Kharkiv and Chuhuiv.

20:09 Head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration Dmytro Lunin

Five Russian missiles hit infrastructure facilities in the region. Information on casualties and destruction is being clarified.

19:16 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 24, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The sixtieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy is advancing in the Eastern Operational Zone to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and secure a land route to the temporarily occupied Crimea.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the enemy did not take active action. Up to seven armed battalions of Belarusians continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions. Exports of units of the Eastern Military District, mostly damaged, from the territory of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian federation of Armaments and Military Equipment continue through Gomel in the direction of Bryansk.
In the Seversky direction, the FSS border service of the Russian Federation continues to provide enhanced protection of the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Bryansk and Kursk regions.
Regrouping of units of the Central Military District from the areas of recovery of combat readiness to the eastern regions of Ukraine continues. From Kursk to the Belgorod region, the Russian enemy plans to move an anti-aircraft gun division from the 14th Air Force and Air Defenсe.
In the Slobozhansky direction, weapons and military equipment of the Russian enemy are being transferred to the Kupyansk district. Russian occupiers continue to partially block the city of Kharkiv, trying to carry out fire damage to units of our troops and critical infrastructure.
There is an intensification of offensive and assault actions of Russian enemy units in the areas of Pashkove, Dovhenke, and Velyka Komyshuvakha. The enemy was unsuccessful, suffered losses, and was forced to retreat to previously occupied frontiers.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy is building up its command and control system and air defence. Continues to fire on the positions of our troops from mortars, artillery, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers along the entire line of contact. Inflicts airstrikes on operational and tactical aircraft.
In the Sievierodonetsk direction, the Russian enemy tried to carry out assault operations in the direction of the settlements of Lyman and Yatskivka but was unsuccessful. Russian occupiers established control over part of the village of Zarichne. The enemy tried to gain a foothold in the western, northwestern, and eastern parts of Rubizhne but failed. He began advancing in the directions of the settlements of Orikhove and Nyzhne.
In the Popasna direction, the occupying forces tried to gain a foothold on the achieved frontiers. The Russian enemy also regrouped and replenished its personnel and ammunition and prepared for further assaults.
In the Kurakhiv direction, with the support of artillery, the enemy attempted an offensive in the direction of the settlements of Novomykhailivka and Marinka. He was not successful.
In the Mariupol direction, Russian invaders continued to fire and fight in the Azovstal area. The enemy inflicted airstrikes on certain objects of civilian infrastructure. The occupiers carried out assault operations in the direction of the settlement of Vremivka, suffered losses, and retreated to previously occupied positions.
In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers are introducing measures restricting the rights and freedoms of civilians, including freedom of movement.
Ukrainian defenders hold the defence and inflict heavy losses on the Russian enemy.

16:40 Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

The occupying country keeps captured Ukrainian soldiers in general regime colonies in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation without converting prisons into prisoners of war camps, which is a violation of the Geneva Convention.

15:40 Operational Command “South”

In the occupied territories of Kherson and Mykolayiv, the enemy continues psychological and military pressure on the civilian population, conducts propaganda activities to agitate the population against the Ukrainian government and create pseudo-republics, discredits the Armed Forces of Ukraine with fake attacks, and shells civilian targets.

13:44 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The main gas pipeline was cut off in the Hirske сommunity, and a transformer substation was on fire. Yesterday, the Russians not only killed six residents of the community and destroyed residential buildings but also caused significant damage to the remnants of infrastructure.

13:32 Suspilne

On April 24, at a checkpoint on the road from the Kherson region to Mykolaiv, the Russian military didn’t let out a column from about 1000 private cars.

12:55 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The occupiers are strengthening control over telephone and Internet networks. In particular, the equipment of the Russian mobile operator Megafon is being installed in the Kharkiv region. The calculation in Russian rubles is being introduced. The occupiers are agitating the local population to go to Russia to buy goods and medicines.

11:19 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

The lives of two children from the Ocheretyn community were taken away by the Russian occupiers this Easter morning. The house on Myru Street (Street of Peace – ed.), where their family lived, was destroyed, and girls aged 14 and 5 died.

8:28 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

On the morning of April 24, 213 children died and 389 received injuries of varying severity during the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine.

8:20 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

At night, the missile hit the railway infrastructure in the Pavlohrad district. A 48-year-old man died. 8 buildings were destroyed. There are three cars and one truck under the rubble.

7:46 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 24, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The sixtieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy continues to conduct offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and ensure a land route between these territories and the Russian-occupied Crimea.
The Russian enemy is regrouping and expanding missile and artillery units to support the offensive and continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action. Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions. In the areas of the settlements of Grabovka, Hlybotske, and Kalinino, Gomel region, engineering equipment of positions was carried out.
In the Siversky direction, there are without significant changes. The FSS Border Service of the Russian Federation continues to provide enhanced protection of the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. The Russian enemy is increasing the engineering and fortification equipment of positions in the Bryansk region at a distance of up to 3 km from the state border of Ukraine.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy increased the grouping of troops by transferring and concentrating additional units in the Belgorod region. Thus, according to available data, 60 km from the state border of Ukraine deployed launchers of ground-to-ground ballistic operational-tactical missile systems 9K720 Iskander (SS-26 Stone). The Russian enemy continues to partially blockade Kharkiv, firing on units of our troops and critical infrastructure. To complicate the movement of units of the Defense Forces in the area of the village of Korotychi, the Russian enemy conducted remote mining.
Russian occupiers are shelling the positions of Ukrainian in the areas of Kurulka and Nova Dmytrivka, conducting air reconnaissance of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of the Orlan-10 UAV in the areas of Barvinkove, Kurulka, and Husarivka.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy fires on the positions of Ukrainian troops with the use of mortars, artillery, and rocket-propelled grenades along the entire line of contact. It intensified offensive and assault operations in the Sievierodonetsk, Kurakhiv, and Popasna directions. There are battles in the areas of Zarichne, Rubizhne, and Popasna. In the Sievierodonetsk direction, the enemy launched pontoon crossings across the Krasna River. It is increasing the air defence system in the Avdiivka direction.
In the Mariupol direction, the Russian enemy continued to fire and blockade our units in the Azovstal area of Mariupol. Inflicts airstrikes, including from long-range aircraft. Using the railway connection, the enemy makes attempts to establish logistical support for troops.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy continues to hold its positions, in some areas it tries to improve the tactical position and exerts fire on the positions of units of Ukrainian troops and civilian infrastructure of Ukrainian settlements.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, along with other anti-aircraft units of the Defence Forces, destroyed seventeen air targets the previous day: nine UAVs, three planes, and five cruise missiles.
Twelve attacks by the Russian occupiers were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts over the past 24 hours, four tanks, fifteen armoured and four units of motor vehicles, and five artillery systems were destroyed.

🔵23.04.2022

21:03 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy according to Suspilne

Russia has deported about 500,000 Ukrainians, including at least 5,000 children.

20:48 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy according to Interfax

Eight people died from a missile strike in Odesa, including a three-month-old baby.

Earlier, the State Emergency Service reported that on April 23 at about 2:35 pm in the Kyiv district of Odesa, as a result of enemy shelling, ammunition hit a sixteen-storey residential building and set fire to apartments on the 4th and 5th floors.

18:41 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 23, 2022.

The fifty-ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy is trying to increase the pace of the operation in east of Ukraine to encircle the Joint Forces, as well as to establish full control over Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
In the Volyn and Polissia areas, the Russian enemy did not take active action, and no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy continues to partially blockade the city of Kharkiv, carrying out artillery shelling of the positions of our units and civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Chuhuiv, Korobochkino, and Dovhenke.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the main efforts of the Russian enemy were focused on taking control of the settlements of Popasna, Rubizhne, and preparing for the attack on the city of Sievierodonetsk. In the area of Marinka and most other areas, the Russian enemy is unsuccessful in the course of hostilities.
In the South Buh direction, Russian occupiers did not carry out active offensive operations, Russians carried out single shellings of Ukrainian units with barrel artillery.
According to available information, the Russian enemy has significant problems with the medical support of its units, there are difficulties with the evacuation of the wounded, and there is a lack of medicine. Due to the growing number of wounded, in the city of Balakliia, the enemy, along with the deployed military hospital, uses the capabilities of the city clinic.
In the city of Vovchansk, which is temporarily occupied, junior medical personnel of health care facilities are forcibly sent to provide first aid to Russian enemy units on the line of contact with the Defence Forces of Ukraine.
Also, the Russian troops have significant problems with the replenishment of personnel and attempt to forcibly mobilise residents of the Kherson region to the Russian occupying forces continue.
According to available information, the Russian enemy uses civilian trucks to move military cargo in the temporarily occupied territories. Also, Russian occupiers continue to use stolen agricultural machinery for military purposes.
Units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine continue to liberate settlements in certain areas and maintain certain defensive lines.

16:42 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

The occupiers disrupted the evacuation from Mariupol. At 11 o’clock at least 200 Mariupol residents gathered near the Port City shopping centre, waiting to be evacuated to Zaporizhzhia. Instead of the buses promised by the Russian side, the Russian military approached the Mariupol residents and ordered them to disperse, because “there will be shelling now.”

12:52 Operational Command “South”

In the Kherson and Mykolayiv regions, Russia is continuing its defensive actions along the occupied frontier, pulling up and reformatting its forces, presumably preparing to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region.

The Russians fired artillery and mortar shells at the occupied settlements, exerting fire and psychological pressure on the civilian population, intimidating and persuading them to accept the occupying power.

Propaganda of the referendum and the creation of a pseudo-republic continue.

12:48 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Russia began forced mobilisation in the occupied parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv regions.

In particular, according to intelligence, in the city of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, the occupiers forcibly send junior medical personnel to the front to help the wounded Russian troops, threatening to shoot them in case of a refusal.

In addition, the Russian Federation began mobilising local youth in the occupied Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, and Kherson regions. The occupiers have banned people from leaving the Kherson region, even to Russia, and they are searching for conscripts in Zaporizhzhia.

8:16 Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk

The collection and exhumation of the bodies of the dead in the territory of the Bucha community are coming to an end. Today the figure is 412, but it will still be clarified at the level of investigators and experts who work without days off. This means that every third victim in the Kyiv region is from Bucha.

3:31 Ukrinform citing the United States Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter The Russians could use tear gas with chemicals in Mariupol. “There is reliable information that Russian troops may have used various means to counter the riots, including tear gas mixed with chemicals, which could cause stronger symptoms to weaken and disable Ukrainian soldiers and civilians as part of its aggressive campaign to capture Mariupol,” said Carpenter during a special meeting of the Permanent Council of OSCE in Vienna.

🟡22.04.2022

20:03 Ukrainska Pravda

The United States has begun supplying multiple rocket launchers (MLRS) to Ukraine and is working with other NATO allies to provide Ukraine with more jet systems.

19:52 Radio Liberty

The satellite recorded another mass grave near Mariupol – near the cemetery of the occupied village of Vynohradne, which is located 5-6 kilometers from the city. This is evidenced by satellite images available to “Schemes” (Radio Liberty). Commenting to reporters, the Mariupol authorities say they have received reports from residents about another possible mass grave in the village – those killed in regular shelling by the Russian army.

According to satellite images, excavated trenches in the cemetery of the occupied village appeared in late March. In the pictures on March 17, these excavations are not yet. In the photo of Maxar for March 29, trenches measuring approximately 38 by 4 meters are already visible. At least 1,000 Mariupol residents killed by Russians can be buried here.

19:26 Novoye Vremya

Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26 together with a team of specialists.

The purpose of the visit is to “intensify efforts to prevent the danger of a nuclear accident” in the context of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

18:18 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational information as of 18.00 on 22.04.2022 regarding the Russian invasion

Fifty-eighth day of heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues.

The enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the enemy did not take active action. There is an increase in electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare systems in the border areas of Gomel region with Ukraine. Units of the 48th separate battalion of electronic warfare of the Western Operational Command of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus have been set up in the districts of Klimovka and Dymamerky. In addition, the enemy conducted training of regular forces and air defense.

The threat of missile and air strikes on the objects of civil and military infrastructure of Ukraine from the territory of the Republic of Belarus remains.

In the Sivershchyna direction, the FSB border service units of the Russian Federation continue to carry out enhanced protection of the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. The regrouping of enemy troops continues.
In the Slobozhanshchyna direction, the occupiers continue to partially block the city of Kharkiv with units of the 6th All-Army, Baltic and Northern Fleets, and try to fire on units of our troops and critical infrastructure.
In the Izium direction, the enemy conducts air reconnaissance of the positions of our troops in order to determine possible directions of attack. To improve the tactical position of the units, the enemy tried to carry out offensive operations in the directions of the settlements of Zavody and Dibrovne, but without success.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, fighting took place along the entire line of contact.

During the day, the enemy carried out assault operations in the direction of Sloviansk, established itself in the village of Lozove. In the areas of Zelena Dolyna and Kreminna, the enemy continues to consolidate its occupied positions, regroup and prepare for offensive operations.
The enemy strengthened the grouping of troops by moving from the territory of the Russian Federation of individual units of the 41st General Army of the Central Military District. Unsuccessfully trying to gain a foothold in the village of Rubizhne.
In the area of Popasna, the enemy carried out assault operations in the direction of the settlement of Novotoshkivske and deep into the settlement of Popasna, without success. Established in the central part of the village Stepne.
In the Avdiivka and Kurakhove directions, the occupiers tried to carry out assault operations, but without success.
In the Mariupol direction, the enemy continued to launch air strikes on Mariupol and blockade our units in the Azovstal area.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the occupiers carried out assault operations in the direction of the settlement of Zelene Pole, without success. The enemy strengthened the group by relocating units of the 19th Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th All-Military Army of the Southern Military District. At the same time, the battalion tactical group of the 127th Motorized Rifle Division of the 5th All-Military Army lost its combat capability and was withdrawn to the recovery area.
In the direction of Southern Buh, near the settlement of Oleksandrivka, the enemy is defending the occupied positions. Conducts air reconnaissance. It is possible to carry out assault operations in order to reach the administrative borders of Kherson region.

According to available information, the personnel of a separate group of Russian troops in the so-called “Transnistrian-Moldavian Republic” serve on a daily basis. At the same time, the possibility of using the territory of the unrecognized republic for aggression against Ukraine remains.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

17:59 Radio Liberty

The Russian Embassy in Iceland is outraged by Reykjavik’s military aid to Ukraine and threatens that military cargo in Ukraine will be regarded as “legitimate targets”

17:55 Ukrainska PravdaThe heads of the negotiating teams of Ukraine and Russia held talks in recent days, and at the same time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the talks had allegedly stopped.

16:22 Radio Liberty

The United Nations says that Russian actions in Ukraine, which have included summary executions of civilians, may amount to war crimes.

“Russian armed forces have indiscriminately shelled and bombed populated areas, killing civilians and wrecking hospitals, schools, and other civilian infrastructure, actions that may amount to war crimes,” Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said on April 22.

In the town of Bucha, near Kyiv, a UN mission has documented that 50 civilians had been killed there, including by summary execution, Shamdasani said.

16:03 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

In the Donetsk region on Friday, as of 3 p.m., the Russians fired on 20 settlements, destroying or damaging 34 civilian objects.

15:44 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

“Russian peace” took the lives of more than 100 residents of Popasna, Luhansk region.

Today, the city still has more than 2,500 residents hiding in bomb shelters. Before the war, there were more than 20,000.

The Russians control about half of the city, so the evacuation of civilians is very difficult, the same as the delivery of humanitarian goods.

Russians deport people from the occupied part of Popasna to Pervomaisk.

There are no surviving houses left in the town, and only military doctors can provide medical care.

The enemy is systematically destroying Ukrainian cities on its way by committing war crimes and crimes against humanity following Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and in violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation of Human Rights Violations during Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.

14:57 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The daytime shelling of the outskirts of Lysychansk had catastrophic consequences. The Russians damaged the high-voltage power line. All residential neighbourhoods of Sievierodonetsk are without electricity.

14:24 European Council President Charles Michel

Charles Michel had a call with Vladimir Putin.

“Strongly urged for immediate humanitarian access and safe passage from Mariupol and other besieged cities all the more on the occasion of Orthodox Easter,” wrote the European Council President on his Twitter page.

14:06 The Guardian

Britain is ready to reopen its Kyiv embassy, Boris Johnson has announced, more than two months after moving it out of the Ukrainian capital before the Russian invasion.

13:01 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

One of the buses did not reach Rubizhne due to the shelling. The Russians opened fire on a school bus evacuating people from Popasna. Twenty-five people were transported, including a woman with a disability, a wounded boy, and an infant. The evacuation vehicle was driven by a history teacher from one of the schools in the Popasna community. He also delivered humanitarian aid to the city. Another 45 people from Lysychansk are already heading to Dnipro. A total of 70 people were rescued from the Luhansk region today.

12:36 Suspilne

From April 23, the Russian military is going to fully control the city of Oleshky, Kherson region. Its Mayor Yevhen Ryschuk announced this in a video message.

12:17 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

The regional trauma centre in Lyman was fired upon today by the Russian army from BM-27 “Uragan”. Direct shelling caused fires and destruction in the hospital and nearby homes.

12:00 Sloviansk city military-civil administration of Kramatorsk district in the Donetsk region

At night, Sloviansk was shelled by the Russian military. According to preliminary information, these were cluster bombs. This was reported by the head of the city military administration Vadym Liakh.

The city continues to eliminate the consequences of the shelling. 9 high-rise and 12 private houses, a school, a shop, and bus stops were affected. The windows were broken, and roofs were partially damaged.

11:59 Ukrinform

Russian invaders destroyed more than 10 distribution centres with food for the population, several dozen oil depots, thousands of power lines, and 10,000 transformer substations.

This was stated by Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Rostyslav Shurma at a briefing.

11:42 Suspilne

Russia’s military command has announced the Kremlin’s intention to fully establish control over Luhansk, Donetsk, and southern Ukraine to enter Transnistria. This was reported by Russian media.

“Control over the south of Ukraine will give the Russian Armed Forces another way out in Transnistria, where there are facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population,” said Deputy Commander of the Central Command of the Russian Federation Rustam Minnekayev.

11:39 Security Service of Ukraine

Law enforcement officers urge believers to be especially vigilant on Easter – the enemy can arrange provocations. Russian propaganda has spread allegations of possible violence against believers during the Easter holidays and church services in Ukraine.

Thus, the Russian media is already preparing the ground for provocations by the Russian army and is shifting responsibility for them to representatives of “nationalist associations” in advance.

“The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police will make every effort to ensure that Easter is safe. However, citizens should keep in mind that our country is at war and that the enemy is ready to take any action against the civilian population. He also lacks respect for churches and shrines, as evidenced by the numerous bombings of such sites,” stated SSU.

10:20 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians disrupt the evacuation: Rubizhne is under fire, so the bus could not get there.

“We will try to get to the southern part of Rubizhne by car because people are waiting to be picked up and brought food there. Unfortunately, the evacuation bus did not arrive – heavy artillery fire began. The Russians are not allowing the civilian population to be saved; they are blocking people in constantly shelled cities,” said Haidai.

10:10 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Disinformation theses of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation about the situation in Ukraine over the past day.

The most manipulative information was that, on April 21, the enemy “took Kreminna and went to the border of Kharkiv region.”

Propaganda media RIA devoted about ten different materials to this “victorious” topic. In one of the videos, a Russian correspondent tests the road that connected Kharkiv and Luhansk regions through Svatove, Starobilsk, and Shchastia.

The analysis showed:

On March 2, the Russian Federation had already reported on the establishment of control over Starobilsk and Svatove by the so-called “LNR” troops;

Shchastia, according to the Kremlin, was captured by the occupiers on February 26;
The Russian army has already “liberated” Kreminna: on March 8 and April 1;
All published by the Russian Federation maps of hostilities from March 15 depicted the border between Luhansk and Kharkiv occupied.

These facts are confirmed by the data of the Ukrainian intelligence, according to which the Russian generals are trying to get at least some victories before Easter.

10:41 Energoatom

Ukraine has recorded another act of nuclear terrorism by Russia. The South Ukrainian nuclear power plant has become a new target threatened by Russian cruise missiles.

On April 16, 2022, over the platform of the station three cruise missiles released probably from the territory of Belarus in the direction of Mykolaiv passed. One of them was recorded by NPP surveillance cameras.

“The threat of aiming at a nuclear reactor with possible consequences – a nuclear catastrophe – was high. This is another act of nuclear terrorism in Russia, which threatens the security of the world! Once again, we call on the IAEA to take all possible measures to stop Russia’s nuclear terrorism, withdraw Russian troops from the territory of the ZNPP, and establish demilitarized zones around Ukrainian nuclear power plants,” the statement of Energoatom said.

9:40 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 22.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 21200 persons were liquidated,

tanks – 838,

APV – 2162,

artillery systems – 397,

MLRS – 138,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 69,

aircraft – 176,

helicopters – 153,

vehicles – 1523,

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 172,

special equipment – 27,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data is being updated.

9:05 Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk

There will be no humanitarian corridors today, April 22, due to the danger on the routes.

8:45 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of April 22, 2022:

Fake: despite denials from the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Haidai, the Russian Defence Ministry continues to claim that Russian occupation forces managed to break through in Rubizhne and Popasna in the Luhansk region;
Manipulation: Russia is preparing provocations under the “foreign flag”. Russian troops are collecting and plan to deliver to the territory of the border regions of Russia fragments of downed Ukrainian “Bayraktars” to prepare for large-scale provocations;
Manipulation: The Russian media do not stop trying to identify the Ukrainian military with the soldiers of the Third Reich. To this end, they publish pseudo-scientific studies stating that “the Nazis, like modern Ukrainian nationalists, carried out some of their bloody actions to discredit the Soviet liberation soldiers.”

8:35 Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office

As a result of the shelling of the village of Hurivka on March 10 and 12 by the aggressor’s troops, the historical architectural monument “Turkish Well” of the 18th century was destroyed and several social infrastructure facilities and residential buildings were damaged.

During the visit to the village, 9 victims and 8 witnesses were interrogated, as well as a school, a kindergarten, the territories of 4 farms, and 7 houses that were damaged were inspected.

8:23 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

After the Russians fired on Lysychansk, three members of the rapid response team of the regional national police received shrapnel wounds.

Russian shells hit seven houses. Four people were injured.

A batch of medicines was delivered to the hospital in Sievierodonetsk.

During the past 24 hours, the Russian army has made 11 attempts to shell the civilian population of the Luhansk region. Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Popasna, Rubizhne, and the Hirske community came under fire. Two houses in Sievierodonetsk, two in Lysychansk, and three more in other communities were partially destroyed. Four residents of the Luhansk region were injured.

8:22 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of April 22, more than 594 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 208 children were killed and 386 received injuries of varying severity.

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 120, Kyiv – 113, Kharkiv – 91, Chernihiv – 66, Mykolaiv – 41, Kherson – 44, Luhansk – 37, Zaporizhzhia – 25, Sumy – 17, the capital – 16, Zhytomyr – 15.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

7:33 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 22, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun).

The fifty-eighth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. The Russian Federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine and launches missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action, and no signs of the formation of offensive groups were noted. Measures are being taken to strengthen the coverage of the state border in the western and north-western directions. The air defence forces have been transferred to reinforced duty. The protection of headquarters, communications centres, military camps, arsenals, bases and warehouses for weapons, military equipment, and fuel and lubricants has been strengthened.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy, with forces of up to seven battalion tactical groups from the 6th Combined Arms Army, coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets, continues to partially block the city of Kharkiv, firing on units of our troops and critical infrastructure.
In the Izium direction, the Russian enemy concentrated up to 25 battalion tactical groups from the 1st Panzer Army, the 20th and 35th Combined Arms Armies, the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District, and airborne troops of the Russian Federation Armed Forces.
The Russian enemy is trying to launch an offensive in the direction of the settlement of Zavody. The Russian enemy went to the northern outskirts of Dibrovny, trying to gain a foothold on the frontier.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, Russian occupiers intensified hostilities along the entire line of combat during the day. The Russian enemy carries out assault operations in the area of the settlement of Zarichne and, with forces of about the battalion, tries to advance in the area of the settlement of Rubizhne.
Defensive battles with the Russian enemy continue in the direction of the settlements of Novtoshkivske and Popasna.
The Russian enemy continues to try to support the artillery in the area of Marinka.
At the same time, the Russian enemy strengthens the grouping of troops in the Zaporizhzhia direction. Measures for the logistical support of the occupying forces are underway.
In the South Buh area, the enemy continued to fire on units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, tried to conduct reconnaissance by fighting in the Trudolyubivka area, suffered losses, and retreated to previously occupied positions.
The Russian enemy continues to suffer losses. According to the available information, on April 20 this year, another consignment of wounded servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian federation (about 220 people) and more than 50 bodies of the killed invaders were taken to the central district hospital of Novoaydar.
In addition, the battalion tactical group of the 136th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District, operating in the Kurakhiv area, suffered significant casualties (up to 250 men) and lost up to 10 rocket and artillery.
Also, according to available information, the personnel of the 150th Motorised Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District, which was involved in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine, did not receive the so-called “combat” funds for March. Because of this, the servicemen express their dissatisfaction and indignation.
To prevent the disruption of the spring conscription campaign in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from April 30 this year, Russian occupiers will be banned from leaving and entering the peninsula.
In the temporarily occupied territories, Russian enemy units continue to block the movement of local people, looting and hand-made approaching the humanitarian crisis – destroying critical infrastructure and blocking the delivery of humanitarian goods from Ukraine. There have been cases of executions of civilians and volunteers.
Ten attacks by the Russian occupiers were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts over the past 24 hours, six tanks, eight armoured units, fifteen vehicles, and four artillery systems were destroyed.
Fifteen air targets were destroyed by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with anti-aircraft gunners of the Land and Assault Forces, Marines, and the National Guard, on the previous day: nine UAVs, three planes, and three helicopters.

1:13 Bloomberg

Rebuilding Ukraine following Russia’s invasion will cost $600 billion, the nation’s prime minister said, calling on members of the International Monetary Fund to donate 10% of their reserve assets received from the institution to support the effort.

In the short term, Ukraine needs $4 billion to $5 billion per month in funding, Denys Shmyhal said at a ministerial roundtable Thursday organised to support the country at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings in Washington. In the longer term, the nation needs a recovery strategy similar to the Marshall Plan for Europe after World War II.

0:26 Operational Command “South”

The situation in Kherson and Mykolayiv regions remains steadily tense.

The humanitarian corridor planned for today from the occupied villages of the Kherson region to the Dnipropetrovsk region did not work. The occupiers did not comply with the agreements, did not stop the shelling, and detained the evacuation column at the checkpoint. The cars were forced to return and could not take people out of the occupied villages of the Kherson region.

The enemy continues to look for ways to advance west of the occupied defensive lines. Ukrainian units repulsed two enemy attacks in an attempt to advance to the administrative border with the Mykolaiv region. During the fighting, the enemy suffered losses and retreated.In the Black Sea, the Russian naval group was reformatted and continued to search for the floodplain of the Moskva flagship. Their location eloquently indicates the persistence of the threat of missile strikes.

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22:14 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

During the day, Russian occupation forces fired on both Kharkiv and the region.

The defence forces recorded about 50 shellings from artillery and MLRS.

2 people were injured in Kharkiv and the district. As a result of the shell hitting the car, 2 civilians died on the spot.

22:06 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on April 21, 2022:

Manipulation: the enemy-appointed “head of the interim administration of the liberated territory of the Kharkiv region” Vitalii Hanchev stated that “a referendum on the status of Kharkiv region is not ruled out; residents have not shown any initiative”;
Fake: the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that in Voskresenske, Mykolaiv region, the Ukrainian military conducted a staging of “acts of looting” allegedly committed by the Russian military. Disguised militants in cars with a “z” sign robbed private houses on camera”;
Manipulation: Russian propagandists took out of context and gave a negative connotation to the words of Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who allegedly “complained about the problems due to the influx of refugees from Ukraine, which puts enormous pressure on the city.”

21:37 Head of the Zaporizhzhia Region Military Administration Oleksandr Starukh

Today at 12:45 the Russian army launched two cruise missiles on Zaporizhzhia.

The first missile landed on the island of Khortytsia near the Preobrazhenskoho Bridge. At that time, the Zaporizhzhia-Lviv evacuation train was moving along the railway line. An explosive wave blew out the windows of four train cars. The windows of cars moving on the bridge also flew out.

At 13:30, the Russians launched a second missile on the island of Khortytsia. As a result, the building of the sanatorium of one of the enterprises was damaged. 8 citizens were injured.

21:06 Mariupol City CouncilIn the village of Mangush, the occupiers could bury from 3 to 9 thousand residents of Mariupol. This is indicated by a comparison with satellite photos of the burial in Bucha, where 70 bodies were found. In Maxar photos from April 9, the mass grave sector in Mangush is 20 times larger.

20:59 Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venedictova

Russia is forcing children to take an indirect part in gathering or passing on military information to the occupiers, transporting weapons, and so on. This is a direct violation of Article 38 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

So far, 8 children have been involved in such activities. In the Kharkiv region, a 12-year-old teenager used the Internet and telegrams to send information about the location of equipment, checkpoints, and military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to receive a monetary reward. A similar fact was recorded in the Luhansk region.

In the Chernihiv region, during the occupation of one of the villages, a minor resident was tasked by representatives of the Russian Armed Forces to conduct reconnaissance of the positions of the Armed Forces. To show his support for the occupiers, he tied red armbands on his arm and leg and walked around the village with them. In the course of searches, the 16-year-old boy led enemies to apartments, the owners of which are related to law enforcement agencies or military units of Ukraine and own weapons. He also showed Russians where to find food, tobacco, and alcohol. Currently, the teenager is detained, and the pre-trial investigation bodies of Ukraine are working with him.

In the Kharkiv region, a 17-year-old resident distributed laudatory materials in support of the aggressor’s actions in Ukraine via a YouTube channel.

And in one of the western regions of Ukraine, three schoolchildren, for fun, called randomly selected subscribers with a proposal to place so-called “marks”. The students were immediately exposed to the prompt response of the special services.

20:20 Ukrainska Pravda

European Council President Charles Michel admitted that the EU has agreed to purchase heavy weapons for free transfer to Ukraine.

“We need to supply you with heavy weapons. There won’t be very much news about this due to security concerns. But we’re sticking to our commitment to provide you with these weapons. That’s the first thing. It’s very important and very urgent,” stated the European Council President.

Charles Michel also believes that Ukraine’s aid for post-war reconstruction should begin to be used before the end of hostilities.

19:55 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

Russia has launched three missile strikes on railway infrastructure in the Novomoskovsk district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. It is unknown whether the railway line and the catenary have been destroyed or if it is possible to resume traffic. There are no casualties.

19:39 NV

The Russians are spreading the fake that to protect themselves from their landing in Odesa, Ukrainians can arrange an environmental disaster. As always, this turned out to be another disinformation of the enemy.

The chief of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Maksym Marchenko reported about it. According to him, the telegram channels began to actively spread information that he allegedly ordered to sink a tanker with reservoirs full of fuel oil in the Black Sea. The authors of the fake claim that in this way the Odesa Regional Military Administration hopes to create a film on the surface of the water that will harm the landing of Russian troops.

18:45 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 21, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The fifty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy continued offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. At the same time, missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine continue.
In the Volyn, Polissya, and Siversky directions, the Russian enemy did not take active actions, and no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found. There is a significant reduction in the intensity of the movement of columns of Russian military equipment on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. Some units of the Belarusian Armed Forces continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions.
The situation in Slobozhanshchyna has not changed significantly. The partial blockade of Kharkiv and the destruction of the city’s infrastructure by artillery continue. In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kharkiv region, Russian occupying forces prohibit the movement of the local population towards the territory controlled by the Defense Forces of Ukraine, and the delivery of humanitarian aid from the Ukrainian side is blocked.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy tried to take full control of Mariupol. It continued to carry out airstrikes and attempted assaults in the area of the seaport and the Azovstal plant.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson oblast, the self-proclaimed occupation authorities announced the mobilisation of males. In addition, according to available information, a so-called “referendum” is planned for May 1 in the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region. And in the period May 2-10, there is planned to be a “census”. Locals are prohibited from moving between settlements.
The shelling of Mykolayiv continues in the South Buh direction, Russian enemy is trying to improve its tactical position and get closer to the city but has no success.
The Russian enemy continues to suffer significant losses in personnel and military equipment. According to updated data, the commander of the First Motorised Rifle Regiment of the Second Motorised Rifle Division of the First Tank Army of the Western Military District, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Mezhuyev, was eliminated by the defenders of Ukraine. Two members of the leadership of the same unit, Colonel Kharitonov and Lieutenant Colonel Smirnov, were also seriously injured and are being treated in Moscow.
In addition, the mobilisation of Russian occupying units is significantly demoralised by the forced mobilisation in unrecognised territorial formations of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, poor nutrition, and low financial and material support of the personnel who arrived to replenish regular units of the Russian Federation.

17:35 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers are bombing and shelling the territory of the Azovstal plant, which civilians use as a shelter. Along with this, they have opened fire in another part of the city.

17:23 Radio Liberty

The satellite recorded a mass grave in the Russian-occupied town of Mangush, which is less than 20 kilometers from Mariupol. Journalists of “Schemes” received satellite images showing the probable place of mass burial. This is a trench more than 300 meters long.

Earlier, the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko said that in this town the Russian military arranged a mass burial of the dead Mariupol.

17:22 Evropeiska Pravda

The United States will ban Russian ships from entering American ports, similar to an EU decision.

17:06 Novoye Vremya

In a speech on April 21, US President Joe Biden announced that Washington would provide another $800 million in military aid to Ukraine.

The new aid package includes heavy artillery, dozens of howitzers and more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as tactical drones.

16:48 International Organization for Migration

The International Organization for Migration estimates that more than 7.7 million Ukrainians have been displaced as a result of shelling and hostilities by the Russian occupiers. This is one in six Ukrainians.

More than 60% of IDPs are women.

16:07 Mariupol City Council

The occupiers took Yukhym Harabet’s unique collection from the Mariupol Museum of Medallion Art to Donetsk.

The museum had more than 700 exhibits on 16 stands. All works were donated to the museum by the artist’s wife – People’s Artist of Ukraine Svitlana Otchenashenko-Harabet. She died in the siege of Mariupol in April 2022

15:12 Ukrainska Pravda

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine extended the martial law for another month until May 25, 2022.

15:10 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister

Another exchange of prisoners took place. Today we are returning home 19 people, including 10 military (including 2 officers) and 9 civilians.

This time among the released are the wounded.

14:51 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Right

The occupiers of the aggressor country forcibly deported a group of Ukrainian children to Russia.

The other day a group of Ukrainian teenagers aged 14-15 was brought to one of the charitable foundations of the Russian Federation (Vladimir) from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

There is information that the parents of the children were killed by rashists during the war. It is forbidden for workers of this foundation to search for relatives of children.

Russia’s occupying state grossly violates Article 49 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, which prohibits the forcible resettlement or deportation of persons from the occupied territories and Article 38 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the armed conflicts.

I appeal to the Security Service of Ukraine, the International Committee of the Red Cross of Ukraine and the Ukrainian National Center for Peacebuilding to assist in the speedy search for and return of children.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during the Russian Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of Russia’s violations of children’s rights in Ukraine.

#ОБСЄ #OSCE #UN #ООН #UISEF #OHCHR-CRC #OHCHR-CCPR #ICRC

14:48 All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council

In the Kherson region, the occupiers took over the property of agricultural enterprises, forced them to sow in favor of the Russian Federation, exported products from warehouses, and forced workers to work. Those who disagree are threatened with physical violence.

Agrarian from Kherson region, member of All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council, Albert Cherepakha says:

“Groups of armed Chechens, who call themselves Kadyrovites, entered the territory of my economic units in Henichesk. We have bases in the villages of Chongar, Chervone, Pavlovka, the land bank is 20 thousand hectares. The armed men said that now all the property of the company belongs to them. The heads of the divisions were warned that in case of property losses they would be beheaded.”

13:25 Suspilne TV

On Thursday, April 21, the parliamentarians of Estonia and Latvia recognized Russia’s actions in Ukraine as genocide.

The decision of the Estonian Parliament is announced on the website of the country’s legislature.

The decision of Latvian deputies is reported on the website of the Seimas of Latvia

13:21 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

About 30 minutes ago 2 “arrivals” were recorded in Zaporizhzhia.

No one was injured.

The enemy once again tried to damage the infrastructure of the city of Zaporizhzhia by missile strikes

13:16 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights

In the village of Zolota Balka, Kherson region, representatives of the russian occupation forces held a meeting with the local population, stating that there would be no more “green corridors” and forbidding people to leave the village.

In addition, they warned that in case of shelling of their positions by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the russian invaders will start shelling the settlement. The occupiers continue to patrol the apartments and conduct searches.

According to the National Police of Ukraine, 76 Ukrainian citizens were imprisoned and taken hostage during the occupation of the region in the Kherson region. 36 people have already been fired.

13:05 Regiment Azov in Mariupol

Defenders of Mariupol found enemy military vehicles in the city, including Russian tanks, marked with the letter “V”. This means that the occupiers who committed atrocities in Bucha were transferred to the city.

13:03 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of UkraineThe occupier may plan to shell the railway infrastructure of the western regions of Ukraine.

13:01 State Emergency Service

In the Luhansk region it is loud and dangerous: the Russian army is inflicting intense blows on the civilian population

The aggressor’s troops are shelling civilian infrastructure, housing, office buildings, markets, churches, garages, beating food warehouses, humanitarian headquarters and cynically shelling civilians. The occupiers are deliberately beating crowds to simply destroy our citizens. People hide in basements for weeks and are afraid to even go out for groceries. The bravest go out to prepare food for themselves in the open air. To support people, rescuers, patrol officers, and volunteers continue to bring food, medicine, and humanitarian supplies.

The result of the shelling of the Russians is the destruction of residential areas of cities and villages of Luhansk region and a large number of fires. So, only for the last few days rescuers of the State Emergency Service of the Luhansk region eliminated more than 10 fires of apartment houses in Rubizhne, in Hirske – garages. Also, daily fire and rescue units of the Luhansk region are involved in dismantling the debris of houses.

The situation in the Luhansk region is extremely difficult. At present, mobile communication in the region has partially disappeared, and the relevant services are working to solve the problem

13:00 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights

The Ruscists want to repeat the famine not only in Ukraine, but also to cause famine in the world.

Residents of the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea report that they have recently noticed an increase in the number of freight trains with “grain” written on them. They all belong to the “North Caucasian Railway”.
Trains go to railway stations bordering the Kherson region. Temporarily occupied AR Crimea does not have such stocks of grain for export in such quantity.
Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions produce large grain crops and currently have a large number of granaries.
Therefore, the aggressor obviously intends to export Ukrainian grain. A few weeks ago, the Ruscists stole grain from the port of Berdiansk.
Eyewitnesses in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea report that the sale of vegetables exported from the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region has started on the peninsula.

The export of grain and foodstuffs from the occupied territories violates Article 55 of the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

11:51 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

The occupiers isolate the captured settlements and shot the volunteers

Russians completely isolate the occupied settlements from Ukraine, prohibit evacuation and do not allow volunteers. In particular, all occupied settlements of Velykyi Burluk district, Kharkiv region, are blocked today. Departure is possible only to the territory of the Russian Federation.
There is an absolute ban on the delivery of humanitarian goods from the territory controlled by Ukraine. Locals have been warned that volunteers trying to deliver help are being shot. It recently became known about the shooting of volunteers travelling from Shevchenkove.
As of April 20, there is no mobile connection in the area. Many settlements were left without electricity. ATMs do not work, and products are sold at significantly inflated prices. There is no medical care or supply of medicines. Roads, including dirt roads, are mined

11:21 Petro Andriushchenko, Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol As a result of a long search and identification of places of mass burial of the dead Mariupol residents, we established the fact of mass burial of the dead Mariupol residents in the town of Mangush.

10:42 Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

In the previous 24 hours, the Russian occupation forces again fired on the areas of Kharkiv from multiple rocket launchers, there were about 15 shellings.

Artillery fire hit in the areas of Saltivka, HTZ, Oleksiyivka. In the region – in Dergachi, Zolochiv direction, Chuhuiv district.

As a result of shelling of occupiers 5 civilians suffered:

3 – in Kharkiv, 2 – in Chuhuiv district.

10:40 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

After the liberation of the Kyiv region from the occupiers, during the investigation in Borodyanka 9 unauthorized burials of civilians were found. Bodies of 6 victims, including one child – with signs of violent death.

10:37 Interior Ministry of Ukraine

As a result of the Russian strikes, two civilians were killed and eight others were injured, including a child. At least 23 civilian objects were destroyed – houses, a school, a factory, communications.

The occupiers hit the following settlements of Donetsk region: Mariupol, Avdiivka, Mariinka, Selidove, Velyka Novosilka, Komar, Ocheretyne, Sukha Balka.

The enemy fired rockets at the civilian population, from ‘Grad’ rocket launchers, tanks, and heavy artillery.

10:32 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

In the Avdiivka direction, the Russians tried to break through our defenses, but failed. In the city itself, Russian shells damaged several houses, an agricultural enterprise and a medical facility during the day. Also yesterday the gas pipeline and electricity supply lines were cut off – in the evening, the electricity supply has already been restored, now work is underway to restore gas supply.

In Ocheretyne, houses were damaged and electricity lines were cut off.

In the Marinka community, Mariinka, Krasnohorivka and Novomykhailivka are under fire. Electricity supply is damaged – specialists are working on restoration.

10:20 Suspilne TV

The president of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, ordered to cancel the assault on the territory of the Azovstal plant. He explained that he did not consider taking the industrial zone expedient.

Earlier, Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu reported that Russian troops would need three to four days to complete the Azovstal operation. He also added that allegedly all of Mariupol is controled by the Russian Federation.

10:04 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Disinformation theses of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the situation in Ukraine over the past day

The most interesting thing is that the enemy talks about another “liberation” of Rubizhne, Luhansk region
“The 56th day of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was marked by the release of Rubizhne in the LNR,” the Russian Defense Ministry stated.
But the General Staff of Ukraine noted that on the 56th day the enemy tried to gain a foothold in the western and north-western parts of Rubizhne, but was defeated
This is the third such “liberation” by the occupiers of Rubizhne, based on reports from the Russian Defense Ministry
For the first time this city “came under control” of the invaders on March 1

On March 18, Russian propaganda again reported on the “liberation” of Rubizhne and even its “cleansing” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

On March 20, the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai denied information about the occupation of Rubizhne

So, perhaps, in the near future, Russian propaganda will again report on the fourth victorious “liberation” of Rubizhne.

10:02 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

The Russian army is already preparing to use outdated Soviet military equipment

The strong resistance and resilience of the Ukrainian army disrupted Russia’s plans to achieve its goal in the short term and created the need for a constant replenishment of the Russian group’s personnel and military equipment due to heavy losses.

To restore its combat capabilities, the Russian Armed Forces are increasingly resorting to the use of Soviet-made equipment, which has long been (since the 1970s) in storage facilities.

Considerable attention is paid to increasing the capabilities of artillery and missile units to carry out continuous shelling of Ukrainian cities.

9:53 Evropeiska Pravda, UK Ministry of Defence

Russia is in a hurry to get some “victories” by May 9

The Kremlin’s desire to show some victory before the May 9 celebrations could affect their operational decisions on the battlefield in the coming weeks.

According to them, Russia obviously wants to achieve significant success by May 9, and this may affect how quickly and persistently they will conduct military operations in the near future.

Now Russian forces are advancing in the direction of Kramatorsk, the city is constantly under missile strikes, according to intelligence. Also in the east, there is a high activity of Russian troops in the air – to support the offensive of ground forces and to suppress and destroy Ukrainian air defenses.

9:44 Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of the Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Binance cryptocurrency exchange will restrict access to users from Russia.

Accounts of Russian cryptocurrencies with a total value of more than € 10,000 will be limited.

Users will still be able to use only the output function.

Accounts of Russians living outside of Russia and accounts of Russian citizens or persons living in Russia with a total cryptocurrency value of less than € 10,000 will not be frozen and will remain active.

9:21 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 21.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 21000 persons were liquidated,

танків ‒ 829,

APV ‒ 2118,

artillery systems – 393,

MLRS – 136,

Anti-aircraft warfare systems – 67,

aircraft – 172,

helicopters – 151,

vehicles – 1508,

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 166.

special equipment – 27.

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data are being updated

Strike the occupier! Let’s win together! Our strength is in the truth!

8:50 Vitalii Kim, head of the Mykolaiiv Regional Military Administration

As a result of enemy’s shelling of Mykolaiiv, one person was lost on an operating table, two more are wounded. The consequences of the shelling are being eliminated.

8:45 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister

Four evacuation buses managed to leave Mariupol along yesterday’s humanitarian corridor. They spent the night in Berdiansk and are now heading to Vasylivka. We are waiting for them in Zaporizhzhia soon.

Today we continue to evacuate women, children and the seniors. Boarding of buses takes place on Shevchenko Boulevard on the roundabout near the Port City Mall at 14.00.

The security situation is difficult. There may be changes. Please follow the official announcements.

8:32 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

208 Ukrainian children were killed by Russians during the full-scale invasion

More than 584 Ukrainian children suffered as a result of full-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation – 208 children died, 376 were injured to varying severity.

According to juvenile prosecutors, kids suffered the most n Donetsk region – 119, Kyiv region – 113, Kharkiv – 91, Chernihiv – 57, Kherson – 44, Mykolaiv – 41, Luhansk – 36, Zaporizhia – 25, Kyiv city – 16, Sumy – 16 , Zhytomyr – 15.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

8:32 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy is spreading by the morning of Apr 21 2022.

Fake. The Russian Ministry of Defense warned that “Ukrainian Mykolayiv may find itself in the zone of an epidemiological catastrophe: against the background of the difficult humanitarian situation, public utilities are not working there and the central water supply has been cut off.”
Manipulation. Representatives of the Russian Embassy in Washington said that “US sanctions are becoming increasingly absurd and speak of Washington’s inability to subjugate Russia to its will.”
Manipulation. Russian media with reference to the odious Kadyrov reported that “Mariupol plant” Azovstal “on Thursday will be completely under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.” It was also added that “militants who have settled in the metallurgical plant can still lay down their arms and surrender in the morning.”

7:51 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

The occupiers fired Zelenodolsk from “Uragan” multiple launch rocket system. People and houses were not affected.

Russians hit the communications and left the city without light and water.

7:48 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

There are no food stocks left in Severodonetsk

Much of the destruction caused by the Russian invasion in the last 24 hours has occurred in Rubizhe and Novodruzhesk. Five more houses, not to mention the infrastructure, are uninhabitable.

Also, there are no working food stocks left in Severodonetsk. The Russians destroyed them. People receive food exclusively from humanitarian goods.

6:36 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 06:00 on April 21, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The fifty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. A russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The russian enemy is trying to continue offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

The russian enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine.

In the Volyn, Polissya and Siversky directions, the russian enemy did not take active action, no changes in the condition and position of groups of russian troops were detected.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the russianenemy continues to increase the system of technical support.

In Balakleya, wounded russian servicemen began to be placed in the city’s polyclinic, despite the fact that a hospital for the russian military was set up in the building of the local music school. The location of the russian occupiers in the city polyclinic indicates a significant increase in the number of wounded and problems with their subsequent medical evacuation.

The russian enemy continues to partially block and shell the city of Kharkiv.

In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the enemy continues to carry out artillery shelling along the entire line of contact.

In the Kherson oblast, the russian invaders plan to organize the forced mobilization of the population for war with Ukraine. At the same time, the russian occupiers set a goal to completely stop the humanitarian support of the region from the Ukrainian authorities. The terror of the Ukrainian population by russian occupiers continues.

Thus, in the village of Zolota Balka, Kherson oblast, representatives of the russian occupation forces held a meeting with the local population, where they stated that there would be no more “green corridors” and forbade people to leave the settlement. In addition, they warned that in case of shelling of their positions by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the russian invaders will start shelling the settlement. The russian occupiers continue to patrol the apartments and conduct searches.

In the South Buh direction, the russian enemy is shelling the positions of our troops.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has hit four air targets in the previous day: three unmanned aerial vehicles and one cruise missile.

Nine enemy attacks have been repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts over the past 24 hours, one tank, ten armoured units and two vehicles, one artillery system, two special engineering units, an anti-aircraft missile system and an enemy ammunition depot have been destroyed.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

5:16 Suspilne TV, statement by the heads of central banks and ministries of finance of the G7

The “Great Seven” promised $24 billion for Ukraine

The G7 countries have expressed support for Ukraine in its armed confrontation with Russia and pledged financial assistance. Instead, Moscow faces further restrictions in order to isolate itself from the global financial system.

As for Ukraine, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko, who was present at the G7 meeting, was promised $24 billion of financial assistance for the period from 2022, with the possibility of increasing the amount if the need arises.

2:11 Serhii Kyslytsia, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN

Russia has renounced the “Easter truce”

Antonio Guterres called for an “Easter humanitarian break” from April 21 to organize humanitarian corridors and evacuate civilians. The position of the Moscow Fuhrer was announced in a few hours at the Security Council. Let you just listen to this! It is not for me alone to tolerate this trio regularly, – wrote Kyslytsia.

“I will not hide the fact that calls for peace and a ceasefire are very false and insincere in these conditions, which in practice mean only the desire to give Kyiv nationalists and radicals a break so that they can regroup, get new batches of drones, arrange new inhuman provocations and launch new fakes about the actions of Russian soldiers,” said a Russian representative.

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23:58 Operational Command “South”

The occupiers in the Kherson region postponed the “referendum” to the end of April

In the Kherson region, the occupiers intensified preparations for the referendum. The date of imitation of the will of the people was postponed to April 27. Trying to speed up the legalization of the occupying power, as always, they ignore all laws and regulations.

Meanwhile, the settlements of the region are under constant fire. The enemy tried to continue the assault around Oleksandrivka, but was unsuccessful.

In Mykolaiiv region, in settlements near the administrative border with Kherson region, the occupiers are forcing the local population to elect a new local government loyal to the invaders under the threat of weapons by fake voting. Meanwhile the enemy continues artillery shelling of residence quarters and civilians of Mykolaiiv and the whole region.

23:16 Mariupol City Counsil

Mykhailo Podoliak and David Arahamiya stated their readiness to hold talks in Mariupol with representatives of the Russian Federation on the evacuation of the military and civilians.

This was announced by the members of the Ukrainian negotiating team on their social media pages. According to them, they are ready to leave for Mariupol at any time as soon as they receive confirmation from the Russian side.

22:43 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine received an audio interception of a conversation between the occupiers, which refers to an order to kill all the prisoners of war in the area of Popasna, Luhansk region.

This is a blatant war crime, a violation of international law, and another striking example that the Russian army is murderers, rapists and looters, and by no means military.

22:15 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on Apr 20 2022.

Manipulation. Despite President Zelenskyy’s statement that Ukraine has not received any document related to the peace talks, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said that “Moscow handed over a draft document to Kyiv… on April 15, but has not yet received any. reactions”.
Manipulation. Russian investigators inspected the Mariupol hospital, which was “subjected to Ukrainian shelling” and “found dozens of bodies of civilians”. The occupiers also noted that they “recorded traces of Ukrainian war crimes”.
Manipulation. Despite reports of Azov Battalion leaders about the enemy’s shelling of the announced humanitarian corridor, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Kyiv had disrupted a Russian-announced humanitarian operation on “Azovstal”.

20:29 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine

Unfortunately, the humanitarian corridor from Mariupol did not work as planned today.

Due to the lack of control over their own military on the ground, the occupiers were unable to ensure a proper ceasefire.

Also, due to their inherent disorganization and negligence, occupiers were unable to provide timely transportation of people to the point where dozens of our buses and ambulances were waiting.

Tomorrow morning we will resume our efforts in the Mariupol direction.

19:40 Radio Liberty

Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said that there were far fewer evacuation buses from Mariupol than announced by the Russian side.

“The occupiers announced a number of buses in the evacuation corridor. In fact, there were far fewer of them. People gathered at the collection points, but few got on the buses. Now some of these buses go on the route determined by the Russian Federation “, stated Kyrylenko.

18:27 Novoye Vremya

Russian and Belarusian tennis players were suspended from participating in the Grand Slam tournament – Wimbledon.

The decision was made due to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, according to the official website of Wimbledon.

“On behalf of the All England Club and the Committee of Management of The Championships, we wish to express our ongoing support for all those impacted by the conflict in Ukraine during these shocking and distressing times.

In the circumstances of such unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players with The Championships,” the organizers said in a statement.

18:09 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational information as of 18.00 on 20.04.2022 regarding the Russian invasion

The fifty-sixth day of the heroic fight of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion continues.

The enemy is trying to continue the offensive in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The enemy intensified the use of operational and tactical aircraft and air reconnaissance. Inflicts systematic air strikes on military and civilian targets, including long-range aircraft.

The enemy did not take active action in the Volyn and Polissya directions. The probability of missile strikes by units of the Air Force of the Russian Federation on military and civilian infrastructure in our country using the airfield network and the airspace of the Republic of Belarus remains.
In the Sivershchyna direction, no signs of formation of an offensive group by the enemy were found. The protection of the joint part of the border with Ukraine is carried out by enemy units in an enhanced mode.
In the Slobozhanshchyna direction, the occupiers are strengthening groups of army aircraft near the State Border of Ukraine. In the territory of the Belgorod oblast, the equipment of helicopter landing sites has been completed, where more than 90 attack and multi-purpose helicopters are concentrated.

The enemy continues to partially blockade Kharkiv, trying to carry out fire damage to units of our troops and critical infrastructure.

The enemy regrouped troops in the Izium direction. In the area of the settlement Dibrovne the enemy carried out offensive actions, and had partial success. In the area of the settlement of Stara Hnylytsia the offensive was unsuccessful, as a result of the fire the enemy suffered losses and withdrew.

In addition, the attempt to take control of the village of Dovhenke was unsuccessful. The enemy retreated with losses. As a feature, the actions of the enemy in this direction in the military uniform of the Ukrainian model are noted.

Units of the occupiers continue to replenish stocks of logistics from the territory of the Russian Federation.

Additional units of the occupiers are being transferred. Thus, at the Kupiansk-Sortuvalnyi railway station, the unloading of the echelon with weapons and military equipment and the movement of artillery units were recorded.

In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the enemy is reconnoitering the routes of advance and preparing for further offensive operations in the direction of the settlement of Lyman and the exit to Slovyansk from the northeast.

The enemy continues to increase the number of troops in this direction. Units from the 90th Panzer Division, the 41st General Army and the 232nd Jet Artillery Brigade of the Central Military District were relocated from the territory of the Russian Federation.

The battalion tactical group from the 150th Motorized Rifle Division lost its combat capability and was withdrawn to the recovery area.

The enemy tried to gain a foothold in the western and northwestern parts of Rubizhne. Failed. He carried out assault operations in the direction of Novotoshkivske, but was unsuccessful.

The Russian occupiers are carrying out assault operations in the area of Popasna.

Air strikes continue on the infrastructure of the city of Mariupol, the enemy is carrying out assault operations near the seaport and the Azovstal plant.

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, with the support of artillery fire, the enemy resumed the offensive in the direction of the village of Temyrivka.
In the South Bug direction, enemy artillery units fired on the positions of our units. In addition, enemy military and tactical aircraft fired on individual targets.

The enemy tried to continue the assault in the direction of the village of Alexandrovka, but was unsuccessful.

There are no signs of preparation of the armed forces of the so-called “Transnistrian-Moldavian Republic” to take part in the armed aggression against Ukraine. At the same time, the involvement of law enforcement agencies of this unrecognized state entity in conducting subversive and terrorist activities on the territory of our state is not ruled out.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

17:49 Novoye Vremya

Germany will stop importing oil from Russia by the end of 2022. This was stated by Annalena Baerbock, Foreign Minister of the country.

16:59 Priamyi TV

In Mariupol, surrounded by Russian troops, 91-year-old Vanda Obiedkova, who survived the German occupation, died.

This was reported by the museum of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

“At the age of 10, she hid from the Germans in a basement in Mariupol. 81 years later, she died in a basement in the same city, hiding from Russian troops,” the museum stated.

16:47 Novoye Vremya

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russia has lost three and a half times more military equipment than Ukraine, Oryx reports.

16:10 Security Service of Ukraine

In the Kharkiv region, the SSU exposed a secret Russian warehouse with ammunition and components for military equipment worth $200 million.

All this equipment has already been transferred to the needs of the Armed Forces.

15:57 Radio Liberty

Moscow has banned Ukrainian artists and journalists from entering Russia for 50 years for criticizing Russia’s actions. The list includes 31 people.

15:33 Ukrainska Pravda

The head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius, doesn’t believe in the ceasefire by the Russian occupiers on Easter, so he urged not to hold night services in dangerous areas of the country.

15:23 Radio Svoboda

The number of Ukrainians who left their homeland after the Russian invasion has exceeded 5 million, according to the update by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on April 19. According to these data, this is the largest flow of refugees in Europe since World War II. 90% of refugees are women and children.

14:04 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

A global flash mob on social networks in support of Ukraine #ArmUkraineNow is spreading around the world.

Advocacy for the provision of weapons is now a top priority for every Ukrainian. Our courageous army does not have enough heavy weapons. Only after its prompt provision will Ukraine be able to confidently win, save the lives of innocent people and stop this evil.

To join, you must meet three simple conditions:

1. Take a photo with a piece of paper, phone, tablet, etc. on which the text “Arm Ukraine Now” will be written.

2. Post your photo with a poster on one or more social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Write a short appeal to the world community to provide Ukraine with heavy weapons.

3. In your post, pass the baton of the flash mob to at least three friends or public figures (politicians, artists, athletes, other authorities). BE SURE to add the hashtag #ArmUkraineNow to the post.

Together we will win!

13:37 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Putin plans to carry out forced mobilisation in the occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.

Pseudo-referendums in the occupied territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson regions are aimed at declaring forced “mobilisation”. After that, the FSB of the Russian Federation plans to throw “mobilised” Ukrainians to the hottest parts of the front to storm the positions of the Armed Forces under the control of barrier troops. In fact, this is an attempt to destroy Ukraine at the hands of Ukrainians themselves.

As previously reported, personal data of residents of the temporarily occupied territories are collected in advance for “referendums”, allegedly for “humanitarian aid” or social benefits. On election day, FSB officers will fill out ballots using the information obtained without the consent and physical presence of the Ukrainians themselves.

That particular operation pursues the following objectives:

the destruction of representatives of the Ukrainian ethnic group;
carrying out propaganda activities with imposing on the population of Russia and the world the myth that “the population of the regions liberated from the Nazis began to fight against nationalist battalions.”

That is another crime of the Putin regime against Ukraine and proof of the genocide against the Ukrainian nation.

11:56 Economichna Pravda

Nearly 200,000 employees of multinational companies in Russia remain on payroll, despite promises to suspend or suspend operations in the country. This was reported by the Financial Times. Several Western companies, such as McDonald’s, IKEA, Renault, Levi Strauss, and others, have pledged to pay salaries to thousands of their employees while operations in Russia are suspended. The FT estimates that there are at least 188,000 employees. The real figure could be much higher, as large employers such as KFC owner Yum Brands and Coca-Cola have not confirmed whether they are still paying employees.

11:14 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Light, gas, and water supply cannot be restored in Popasna, Rubizhne, and parts of the villages of the Hirske community because the infrastructure there is almost destroyed. It cannot be repaired until the end of hostilities.

11:04 Сhairman of the Mykolaiv Regional Council Hanna Zamazieieva

Update on the shelling of the Bashtanka city hospital. The hemodialysis department, which provided vital assistance to hundreds of citizens every day, was damaged.

“We have always cited our Bashtanka Multidisciplinary Hospital as an example. It serves a huge area and is a hub hospital. Soon, there had to be a full-fledged modern reception department with all necessary equipment. But the ugly hands of the “Russian world” reached Bashtanka and this hospital, and now, instead of modern medical facilities, the wards there have been destroyed,” said Zamazieieva.

10:54 European Pravda

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed that it has received spare parts and components for aircraft from the Allies, but not new aircraft.

10:53 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

According to the acting mayor of the occupied Berdiansk Oleksandr Svidlo, representatives of the Russian Federation came to the houses of culture and demanded to organise concerts on May 9, the Victory Day in Russia. They illegally appointed their director. Russians make fake statements and insist on collaboration. The population of the occupied territories is outraged.

10:25 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

On the background of failures at the front, Moscow began a “cleansing” of the leaders of the so-called “LPR”.

According to the information received by the CDI of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, “Minister of Internal Affairs of the People’s Republic of Luhansk” major-general Oleksandr Kornet was arrested by the Russian FSB and is currently being held in the detention centre in Rostov-on-Don.

His arrest provoked a negative reaction from the security forces and the political leadership of the “republic”, which assessed this as the beginning of changes in the power bloc of the quasi-state. However, the head of the so-called “LPR” Leonid Pasichnyk is making every effort to release Cornet from custody and reinstate him.

10:22 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 20.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 20900 persons were liquidated,

Tanks – 815,

APV – 2087,

artillery systems – 391,

MLRS – 136,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 67,

aircraft – 171,

helicopters – 150,

vehicles – 1504,

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 165,

special equipment – 27,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data is being updated.

10:01 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

The most contradictory disinformation theses of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation about the situation in Ukraine over the past day:

“With high-precision missiles, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed control points of the Armed Forces, ammunition depots, and military equipment in the Luhansk region.”

The General Staff of Ukraine reports that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military has destroyed 12 tanks, 28 units of armoured and 2 units of motor vehicles, an artillery system, an aeroplane, a helicopter, 6 UAVs, and an enemy cruise missile.

“Assault on Azovstal started in Mariupol”

Azovstal has been under constant fire for 2 months. The enemy has twice offered to surrender in vain to the Ukrainian defenders who are located on the territory of the plant. According to Russian propaganda, the occupiers are storming Azovstal for at least the third time: Ramzan Kadyrov decided to do so for the first time on April 2, followed by other Russian invaders on April 17 and 19.

9:04 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk

A humanitarian corridor from Mariupol will be organised for today, April 20, 2022. Given the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Mariupol, efforts will be focused in this direction. Ukrainian authorities have managed to agree in advance on a humanitarian corridor for women, children, and the elderly.

8:32 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of April 20, 2022:

Fake: Russian propagandists reported that “Russia has declared to the UN that Ukrainian militants use 8 OSCE vehicles.” At the same time, it is noted that “the organisation concealed the facts of the seizure of its cars”;
Manipulation: even though the propagandists announced the evacuation of more than 140 people from the territory of Azovstal, the Russian Defence Ministry said that on April 19 no one used the humanitarian corridor. “The reason for this was that Kyiv is deceiving its people, convincing them that there is no possibility of evacuation”;
Disinformation: Russian media reported on the “discovery of documents proving Kyiv’s failure to fulfil its international obligations to extradite criminals, including those who took part in the operation in Donbas and are on the international wanted list.”

8:31 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

The occupiers, from “soft” offers to wear white ribbons to civilians as a sign of “our”, turned to direct threats to open fire on anyone who will be on the street without such signs.

The Russians are gradually turning the city into a real ghetto for Ukrainians while using civilians as bait to identify Ukrainian army firing points.

8:16 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of April 19, more than 578 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. The death toll remained unchanged – 205 children were killed. The number of injured increased to 373.

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 118, Kyiv – 108, Kharkiv – 91, Chernihiv – 57, Kherson – 43, Mykolaiv – 40, Luhansk – 36, Zaporizhzhia – 25, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

7:42 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 20, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The fifty-sixth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy is trying to continue offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The Russian enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine.
In the Volyn and Polissia directions, the enemy did not take active action. The threat of rocket-bomb strikes by Russian aircraft on objects on the territory of Ukraine with the use of the territory, airfield network, and airspace of the Republic of Belarus remains.
Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions. Carry out engineering equipment of positions and observation posts.
In the Siversky direction, there were no signs of the Russian enemy forming a strike group to resume offensive operations. The protection of the Ukrainian-Russian border in this direction is carried out by the enemy in an enhanced mode. Measures of engineering equipment of bases in the border areas with Ukraine are underway.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy regroups and replenishes its reserves. The partial blockade of Kharkiv and the shelling of the city continue.
In the Izyum direction, the enemy attempted an offensive in the direction of Sulyhivka, Dibrivne. The enemy is trying to conduct air reconnaissance of the offensive with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles “Orlan-10”.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian occupiers continue to shell the front lines of our troops and search for weak points in the defence along the entire line of contact. Fighting continues in the areas of Kreminna, Torske, and Zelena Dolyna. The Russian enemy regroups to further attack in the direction of the village of Lyman.
The Russian enemy is trying to launch an offensive to advance deep into the village of Popasna. After attempts by the Russian occupiers to storm Rubizhne and Severodonetsk, about 130 wounded enemy soldiers were taken to the local hospital in Novoaydar. The exact number is currently being clarified.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian enemy carried out assaults in the area of the Marinka settlement.
The Russian enemy’s main efforts are focused on capturing the city of Mariupol, continuing the assault in the area of the Azovstal plant.
The enemy is fighting in the settlements of Velyka Novosilka, Rivnopil, and Storozheve and continues to provide logistical support to troops.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy is concentrating its main efforts on maintaining the occupied frontiers and shelling the positions of our troops. Conducts hostilities in the area of the settlement of Oleksndrivka.
In the future, the Russian occupiers will continue to fire on the positions of our troops and conduct hostilities to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region.
Due to heavy losses, the Russian occupiers withdrew the battalion tactical group of the 237th Tank Regiment of the 3rd Motorised Rifle Division of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District from the Kharkiv region to the Permanent Deployment Point (Soloty, Belgorod Oblast) to restore combat capability.
Ten attacks by the Russian occupiers were repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts over the past 24 hours, twelve tanks were destroyed, twenty-eight armoured and two units of armoured vehicles, and one artillery system were destroyed.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has hit nine air targets the previous day: one plane, one helicopter, six UAVs of various types, and a cruise missile.

7:37 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

At night, the Russians shelled Novodruzhesk. Houses were destroyed, the city was left without gas. Three more high-rise buildings were demined in Lysychansk.

6:15 Ukrainska Pravda citing the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhii Kyslytsia

The Russians forcibly relocated more than 500,000 Ukrainians to Russia, including 121,000 children. Ukrainians are issued documents banning them from leaving Russian regions for two years.

Ukrainians are sent to depressed regions of Russia, including the northern regions and the island of Sakhalin.

In addition, at least 20,000 Ukrainians are being held in filtration camps on the Yalta-Manhush-Nikolske line and about 5-7,000 in Bezimenne in the Donetsk region.

4:58 Suspilne citing the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi

Direct communications between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Chornobyl nuclear power plant was restored on April 19, according to a press statement from IAEA’s Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi.

Russian forces held Chornobyl for five weeks before withdrawing on March 31. IAEA lost contact with the nuclear power site on March 10.

“This was clearly not a sustainable situation, and it is very good news that the regulator can now contact the plant directly when it needs to,” Grossi said in the statement.

The statement added that a “mission of IAEA experts” plans to visit the site later this month to “conduct nuclear safety, security and radiological assessments, deliver vital equipment and repair the Agency’s remote safeguards monitoring systems.”

0:58 Operational Command “Sought”
The manoeuvring of the enemy naval group continues in the Black Sea operational zone. Therefore, the threat of missile strikes remains, and a desperate landing is not ruled out.

The enemy continues to reconnoitre Ukrainian positions with the help of reconnaissance drones, which our air defence forces continue to accurately destroy.

The total losses of the enemy for the current day on the southern borders of the defence are 19 Russians and 6 units of equipment, including armoured, automobile, and UAV “Orlan-10”.

0:27 Suspilne citing the Adviser to the Head of the President’s Office Oleksii Arestovych

In the Izium district of the Kharkiv region, 12 Ukrainian servicemen reported breathing problems and red eyes after an attack by the Russian army.

“The type (of the substance – ed.) cannot be determined, because there is no laboratory nearby… There are no deaths. There is evidence that some chemical substance was used. It all needs to be clarified,” Arestovych said.

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22:12 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on April 19, 2022:

Manipulation: even though the propagandists denied the fact that civilians were at the Azovstal plant, the Russian Defense Ministry began demanding that Kyiv release all civilians from the plant, adding that forcibly keeping civilians as human shields is terrorism;
Disinformation: after a three-week media break, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the United States intends to fight (with Russia) “to the last Ukrainian” and is doing everything possible to “delay the special operation” in Ukraine;
Fake: Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that “Russian intelligence data allow us to talk about thousands of mercenaries who came to Ukraine from around the world.” He also noted that they were “mostly professional killers with a broken psyche.”

21:59 Сhairman of the Mykolaiv Regional Council Hanna Zamazieieva

The Bashtanka city hospital in the Mykolaiv region seriously suffered as a result of attacks by the Russian troops. The dialysis and reception departments were completely destroyed. All windows in the operating room were broken due to the shelling.

21:30 Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov

New sanctions against the Russian Federation from technology companies.

In particular, the American company MongoDB Inc. suspended sales of its cloud services to customers in Russia and Belarus. Also, the company will not sell the software of its flagship product MongoDB – a database management system that does not require a description of the table scheme.

In addition, the cloud PaaS platform Heroku no longer registers users from Russia, and Capcom without warning withdrew all its games from sale on Russian Steam.

1Password – new accounts from Russia are not registered. It is not possible to pay or renew the subscription to current users from Russia, after the end of the payment period the accounts will switch to “read-only” mode.

Soda PDF does not serve customers from Russia and Belarus. These are programs used to open, view, create, convert, edit, protect and share Portable Document Format files.

Strava, a social network for athletes, no longer works in Russia and Belarus.

Bungie has suspended sales of Destiny 2 in Russia and Belarus. Ansys Inc. has terminated the technical support of the software without explanation. Rovio, which created the Angry Birds franchise, has announced the suspension of its activities in Russia and Belarus. The company’s games have already been discontinued on Google Play and the App Store. In-game purchases are also disabled.

21:15 Ukrainska Pravda

The Russia-backed “leader” of the DNR militants, Denis Pushilin, spoke about the “accession” of part of the Zaporizhzhia region. He allegedly received a “request from residents” of the Rozivka district of the Zaporizhzhia region to “temporarily join the DNR”.

19:25 Mariupol City Council

Mariupol becomes the “second Aleppo”.

In 2011, the Russian military forces began destroying Aleppo in Syria. The city was severely bombed, and chemical weapons were used against the people. On March 26, Volodymyr Zelensky said that the situation in Mariupol could be compared to the catastrophe in Aleppo, Syria. ZN.UA compared these tragedies.

19:07 Evropeiska Pravda

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an Easter four-day “humanitarian pause” in Ukraine to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the affected areas.

“Today I call for a 4-day humanitarian break of Holy Week, which begins on Holy Thursday and lasts until Easter, April 24, to allow the opening of a number of humanitarian corridors,” Guterres said.

18:53 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 19, 2022.

The fifty-fifth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian occupiers continue to launch missile and bomb strikes on civilian and military infrastructure throughout Ukraine.
In the Volyn, Polissya, and Siversky directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action. The movement of damaged equipment of the military units of the Eastern Military District continues by rail from the territory of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian federation. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to use the airfield network on the territory of the Republic of Belarus in order to launch airstrikes on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
In the Slobozhansky direction the partial blockade by the Russian enemy of the city of Kharkiv proceeds. The Russian occupiers are trying to fire on the Ukrainian troops and critical infrastructure. The enemy from units from Russia attempted an offensive and stormed south of Izium. They were unsuccessful, suffered losses, and were forced to retreat to their former positions.
In the Donetsk direction, near the town of Marinka, as a result of a counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops, the Russian enemy suffered losses and retreated. Units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine regained control of the settlement.
Fighting continues in the area of Oleksandrivka in the South Buh area, where the Russian enemy is unsuccessful. The Russian enemy tries to reach the administrative border of the Kherson oblast and it does not stop shelling settlements.
The Russian enemy continues to suffer significant personnel losses. In order to solve the problem of recruiting units under contract, the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation decided to sign short-term contracts for three months and simplify the form of a psychophysical selection of future candidates. These measures did not lead to the desired effect.
According to available information, since the beginning of the 2022 year, only 130 contract servicemen have been selected to serve in 42 units of the Southern Military District. 22 of them have already refused to participate in the so-called “special operation” in Ukraine.
Units of Russian armed forces directly involved in armed aggression on the territory of Ukraine have a special need for staffing.
According to the available information, the personnel of two battalion tactical groups were destroyed in the 200th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade of the 14th Army Corps of the Coastal Forces of the Northern Fleet.
In addition, three companies of the 51st Parachute Regiment and the Company of the 137th Parachute Regiment, which are part of the 106th Parachute Division, were destroyed on the territory of Ukraine.

18:48 Radio Svoboda

Mariupol’s Azovstal plant was bombed and almost completely destroyed. This was stated by Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment Sviatoslav Palamar.

According to him, Russians dropped bombs on the plant, and many people remain under the rubble. “We will fight. We will use every cartridge we have left, but we call on the homeland to save civilians, the wounded, and take away the bodies,” Palamar said.

18:39 Radio Svoboda

Canada has imposed sanctions on 14 close allies of the Russian regime, including Russian oligarchs and members of their families. In particular, sanctions are being applied to Putin’s two adult daughters, Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova.

18:36 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The Russian military is preparing a series of pseudo-referendums to legalise the occupation administrations.

In the occupied territory of the Kherson region, ballots, forms, brochures, posters, and booklets are printed for voting in the “referendum” on the creation of another pseudo-entity “People’s Republic of Kherson” and the legitimation of the occupying power. For this purpose, in particular, the printing house in Nova Kakhovka was involved.

A “referendum” on the election of the mayor and administrative accession to the occupied Crimea is also being prepared in the city of Snihurivka in the Mykolaiv region.

17:38 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The occupiers mined roads, fields, forests, and cemeteries in all temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

In particular, on the night of April 18, along the Kherson-Snihurivka highway (the section between Naddniprianske-Oleksandrivka), the occupiers carried out heavy mining of fields, roads, and their verges.

In the Velykyi Burluk district of the Kharkiv region, the transition of residents is allowed only to the territory of the Russian Federation. All secondary roads are completely mined. According to the occupiers themselves, this is done to prevent the passage of volunteer vehicles and Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups.

17:00 Dzerkalo Tyzhnia

Russian occupiers stole John Deere agricultural machinery in the Zaporizhzhia region. Later, looted property “surfaced” at an agricultural firm linked to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

One of the most high-profile looting crimes took place in Melitopol – from the exhibition site of Agrotek-Invest, the official dealer of agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere (USA) in Ukraine, the kadyrovites stole three new combines, a tractor, three drills worth 1.5 million euros, as well as 20 tons of branded oils.

The company managed to find out where the Russians took the stolen equipment. Thanks to the systems installed on the equipment, the specialists established that the equipment is currently located in Chechnya, in the village of Zakan-Yurt near Grozny.

16:30 Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a bill “On Extending the Martial Law in Ukraine.” It proposes to extend the martial law from 05:30 on April 25, 2022, for 30 days until May 25.

15:39 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

The intensity of shelling in Kharkiv has increased. At least three people were killed and 16 were injured in the April 19 Russian shelling of Kharkiv.

15:24 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk

Ukrainian authorities held a fifth exchange of prisoners with the Russian occupiers, returning 76 Ukrainians home. Among them are 60 servicemen, including 10 officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities also agreed to return 16 civilians taken hostage by the Russian occupiers.

14:20 Ukrinform

The European Union must give Ukraine its full support to counter Russian aggression, including the launch of the Solidarity Fund with Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Polish government Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday during a briefing for the media in Lviv. Together with representatives of local authorities, he attended the opening of a modular container town for internally displaced Ukrainians.

“The struggle in Ukraine is a struggle for freedom, for the security of the whole of Europe. Crimes in Bucha, Borodianka, Hostomel, and hundreds of other settlements show how barbaric the system and regime Europe faces… There is a front and barricades of freedom and sovereignty. We must realise this: these fires, burned houses, and cities that the Russian army leaves behind are evidence of barbarism. At the same time, it should be a great call to action, for Poland and the Poles it is already such a call,” stated Morawiecki.

14:05 Ukrinform citing the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

In the cities of Rubizhne and Popasna in the Luhansk region, positional battles are currently taking place, but the Russian invaders cannot do anything.

“They (Russian invaders – ed.) are already advancing from all sides, more massive shelling has begun, many times more aircraft are working on our cities, along the entire line of defence. Indeed, it can be stated that the offensive we have been talking about and which we have been waiting for for a long time has begun. We are constantly fighting positional battles in the cities of Rubizhne and Popasna, the enemy can not do anything,” informed Haidai.

13:36 Ukrinform

A Russian court in Rostov-on-Don on Tuesday sentenced a Crimean Tatar father of four to 17 years in prison. This was reported by “Crimean Solidarity”.

Emil Ziiadinov constantly attended trials and searches of Crimean Muslims, supported the families of political prisoners in every possible way, and directly through their transfers to the pre-trial detention centre.

13:28 Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych

The shelling of Mykolayiv on the night of April 19 damaged an electric pole and wounded two people.

13:14 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

In the city of Izium, Kharkiv region, the occupiers began the forced mobilisation of men.

13:12 Kherson Regional State Administration

The Russian flag was removed from the village council building in the Velyki Kopani territorial community last night. After that, the occupiers announced that they plan to close the entrances to the village and markets. They announced yard patrols and searches and the punishment for the family in which the flag will be found.

13:09 Security Service of Ukraine

The Security Service has intercepted a telephone conversation between the occupiers, in which the Russians are discussing the dropping of “three-ton surprises from the sky” in Mariupol. Despite a significant advantage in the number of troops, the Russian occupiers cannot take the Ukrainian city. They want to drop aerial bombs on the Azovstal plant because Ukrainian fighters are located there. The occupiers are not deterred even by the fact that civilians also use the plant as the shelter.

12:33 Director-General of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

The World Health Organisation unequivocally condemns the continued increase in attacks on health care in Ukraine. They must stop. To date, WHO has verified 147 attacks, including 73 people killed, and 53 injured.

12:32 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine condemns Russia’s deliberate disregard for the International Court of Justice Order as well as its continued crackdown on the rights of ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

“Repressive campaigns against the Crimean Tatars, their ousting, deprivation of the right to own land, forced change of the demographic composition of Crimea by the Russian occupation administration are aimed at destroying the identity of the Crimean Tatar people,” – said First Deputy Minister Emine Dzhaparova.

Russia’s impunity for its crimes has led to a deliberate increase in aggression, to a full-scale war against our state as well as to its atrocities in Ukraine with the aim to annihilate the Ukrainian people, eradicate culture, identity, and ultimately the Ukrainian state.

12:25 Ukrainska Pravda citing Reuters

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday that an embargo on Russian oil at a European Union level was in the works, adding that France’s President Emmanuel Macron wants such a move.

“I hope that in the weeks to come we will convince our European partners to stop importing Russian oil,” Le Maire told Europe 1 radio.

12:16 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

Just yesterday, the occupiers abducted 98 children from Mariupol. Authorities are working to verify the location of the deportees and return Ukrainians home.

12:15 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

As a result of shelling by Russian troops on the night of April 19, a high-rise building in Zelenodolsk, Dnipropetrovsk region, was damaged.

12:08 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Documents obtained by the military intelligence of Ukraine testify to the preparation of the 1st Panzer Army of Russia for the invasion and occupation of the territory of Belarus.

After the falsification of the presidential election in Belarus, the Russian Federation has developed a plan to invade and suppress protests.
The occupation of Belarus was planned under the pretext of avoiding Russia’s involvement “in the European continental region in a regional or large-scale war with NATO member states in the West.”

11:03 Ukrinform citing the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

A new wave of looting arose in Mariupol due to the rotation of Russian troops. They break into surviving apartments and take away property of residents.

10:29 National Police of Ukraine

Russian troops fired on 17 settlements in the Donetsk region during the day. 5 civilians were killed and 6 others were injured, including a child, as a result of 21 strikes.

10:24 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians damaged the high-voltage line. 215 settlements are without electricity.

Donetsk and Luhansk regions account for more than 60 percent of the total number of disconnected gas distribution stations across the country.

The main reason for their stoppage is damage to gas distribution networks due to shelling and difficulties in accessing facilities due to active hostilities.

10:09 Сhairman of the Mykolaiv Regional Council Hanna Zamazieieva

The occupiers fired again with BM-21 “Grad”, BM-27 “Smerch”, and BM-30 “Uragan” on the settlements of the Mykolaiv region.

Yesterday Russians struck on Ochakiv with the forbidden cluster munitions, and since last night and at night chaotically fired at the majority of neighbourhoods of Mykolaiv. There is the destruction of civilian buildings, residential buildings, and civilian infrastructure of the city.

As always, kindergartens and schools were damaged.

10:00 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

The main disinformation theses of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on the situation in Ukraine over the past day:

“With high-precision strikes, the Russian armed forces are destroying military facilities in Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions. Ammunition depots were liquidated.”

The enemy does not stop air and missile strikes on civilian targets throughout Ukraine.

“Restoration of liberated areas has started in Mariupol.”

Mariupol is a Ukrainian city, but the occupiers are unsuccessfully trying to seize this territory and establish control over the settlement. In general, the main efforts of the enemy are focused on breaking through the defence of our troops in Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

“Special operation is going according to plan”

During the past 24hrs, the Ukrainian military destroyed 10 tanks, 18 units of armoured and 8 units of motor vehicles, 1 artillery system, 1 aircraft, 4 UAVs, 2 cruise missiles, and an enemy mortar.

9:49 Operational Command “North”

On the morning of April 19, soldiers of the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the enemy UAV “Orlan-10”, which once again tried to carry out reconnaissance activities of critical infrastructure in Odesa.

9:35 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 19.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 20800 persons were liquidated,

tanks – 802,

APV – 2063,

artillery systems – 386,

MLRS – 132,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 67,

aircraft – 169,

helicopters – 150,

vehicles – 1495,

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 158,

special equipment – 27,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data is being updated.

9:15 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk

There will be no humanitarian corridors on April 19. Intense shelling continues in Donbas. The Russians refuse to provide a corridor for Mariupol to exit in the direction of Berdiansk. Negotiations on opening humanitarian corridors in Kherson and Kharkiv regions continue.

9:03 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

Russian occupiers in Mariupol are trying to “legalise” the burial of civilians. They collect data on dead and missing residents and monitor relatives’ search groups on social networks.

9:01 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Residents will be evacuated on April 19, even though the occupiers have renounced the regime of silence on this day, do not stop blocking and shelling routes, violating international humanitarian law.

8:31 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of April 19, 2022:

Manipulation: the enemy continues to implement a plan to carry out terrorist attacks to instigate anti-Ukrainian hysteria in Russia. Thus, the governor of the Belgorod region said that “the village of Golovchyne was shelled by Ukraine, there is destruction and casualties”;
Fake: Russian propagandists said that “Azov Battalion fighters are holding hostages of civilians of all ages, including children.” According to the enemy, this is done to further “ensure the exit of the military under the guise of hostages through the humanitarian corridor”;
Manipulation: propaganda media reported that “the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case on the fact of genocide by Ukraine” against residents of the temporarily occupied city of Shchastia in the Luhansk region.

8:09 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of April 19, more than 572 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. The death toll remained unchanged – 205 children were killed. The number of injured increased to 367.

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 118, Kyiv – 108, Kharkiv – 91, Chernihiv – 54, Kherson – 43, Mykolaiv – 40, Luhansk – 36, Zaporizhzhia – 25, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

7:38 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 19, 2022.

The fifty-fifth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

A Russian enemy is trying to continue offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, as well as to maintain a land corridor with the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Missile and bomb strikes on civilian targets throughout Ukraine do not stop. There was the intensification of the Russian missile strikes on civilian objects in the western regions on the 18th of April.
In the Slobozhansky and Donetsk operational districts, the Russian aggressor is conducting offensive and assault operations in certain areas.
The Russian enemy continues to transfer weapons and military equipment to Ukraine from the central and eastern regions of the Russian federation. Along with combat units, it transfers support units.
In addition, to improve the logistics system, the Russian occupiers are deploying logistics centres and creating field bases for repairing and renewing damaged equipment.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy continues to partially block the city of Kharkiv. According to available information, to organise the air defence system of the offensive group, the Russian enemy is transferring additional anti-aircraft missile divisions of the short-range surface-to-air missile system “Tor” (SA-15 Gauntlet) to the Kharkiv region. At the same time, mobile long-range surface-to-air missile divisions of S-400 (SA-21 Growler) and S-300 (SA-10 Grumble) were deployed in the areas of the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine to cover the main command and control points, as well as the rear areas.
In the Izyum direction, the Russian enemy is conducting offensive operations on the left bank of the Siversky Donets River. To support the offensive actions of the group in this direction, the enemy created a system of main and reserve firing positions for rocket and barrel artillery.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian occupiers intensified offensive operations along the entire line of contact.
The main efforts of the enemy are focused on breaking through the defence of Ukrainian troops in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, as well as establishing full control over the city of Mariupol. In the Zaporizhzhia oblast, the concentration of units of the Russian occupying forces continues in certain areas.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy focuses on reaching the administrative border of the Kherson region. To improve the tactical situation, the Russian occupiers are trying to conduct offensive operations in the area of the village of Oleksandrivka. The Russian enemy does not stop the shelling of civilian objects in the city of Mykolaiv.
No significant changes have been recorded in the Volyn, Polissya, and Siversky directions.
The republic of Belarus continues to use and provide its territory for airstrikes on the territory of Ukraine and reconnaissance of objects on Ukrainian territory.
According to the available updated information, the losses of the 126th Coast Guard Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet are up to 75%. The 810th Independent Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet lost 158 servicemen killed, about 500 wounded, and 70 people are missing.
A significant number of servicemen of these brigades wrote reports refusing to participate in the so-called “special operation”.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, Ukraine’s defenders repulsed seven enemy attacks and destroyed ten tanks, eighteen armoured units, eight vehicles, one artillery system, and an enemy mortar.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has hit seven air targets the day before: one plane, four UAVs, and two cruise missiles.

5:55 Suspilne citing Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov

As a result of the Russian attack, up to 30% of Ukraine’s infrastructure worth $ 100 billion was damaged or destroyed.

“Virtually all components of our transport infrastructure have been affected in one form or another,” the Minister of Infrastructure said.

According to him, as a result of hostilities from 20% to 30% of the country’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, namely more than 300 bridges on national roads, more than 8 thousand kilometres of roads, and dozens of railway bridges.

Kubrakov believes that the infrastructure can be reconstructed in two years using frozen Russian assets.

5:20 Ukrinform citing the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S. Wally Adeyemo

The United States will apply economic and financial pressure primarily against the Russian military-industrial complex to destroy any opportunity for Russia to regain its potential during the war in Ukraine.“As long as Russia’s invasion continues, our sanctions will continue. Even as we continue to pursue rigorous financial sanctions against Russia and its key financial institutions, the next phase of our work will be to take apart Russia’s war machine, piece by piece, by disrupting their military-industrial complex and its supply chains,” Adeyemo stated.

🟡18.04.2022

23:29 Operational Command “South”

The Russians stormed the Ukrainian positions in the Oleksandrivka area for almost an hour. The enemy retreated to regain strength.

As a result of effective defeats by Ukrainian troops of enemy forces, 28 Russians and 5 units of equipment were destroyed, including armoured, engineering, automobile equipment, and UAVs.

In the Black Sea Operational Zone, an enemy naval group of missile and landing craft has moved almost 200 km off the Ukrainian coast. But the blocking of shipping and the threat of missile strikes persist.

23:26 State Border Guard Service

The possibility of crossing the border by citizens of Ukraine with domestic passports has been extended.

This decision was made taking into account the situation on the territory of Ukraine during martial law when citizens of Ukraine can not quickly and timely issue a passport of a citizen of Ukraine to travel abroad (international passport).

Due to humanitarian circumstances and previously reached agreements with neighbouring countries the border guards will allow Ukrainian citizens to pass with a domestic passport document. That applies to all citizens, regardless of the region from which they come.

22:25 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on April 18, 2022:

Fake: during a report at a meeting of the Commission to Investigate Biolaboratories in Ukraine, Vice Speaker of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya said that Russia “discovered the fact of bacteriological terrorism against children in the Luhansk region in 2020”;
Manipulation: Russian media published words taken from the publication of the former President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus for the Czech magazine “iDNES”: “Now everyone is literally radiating love for Ukraine and Ukrainians, but isn’t this love just a screen that hides “hatred for Russia”;
Disinformation: Russian propagandists said that “the United States has already handed over to Kyiv more than a third of its missile reserves for Javelin anti-tank systems, and Germany and Canada have already exhausted opportunities for military assistance.”

21:41 Head of the Lviv Region Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi

The wreckage of Russian missiles that hit Lviv in the morning was found on the territory of the orphanage. It is a shelter where children from all over Ukraine are now brought. There are no casualties among the wards or staff.

20:56 Mariupol city council

Russian occupiers strike “Azovstal” metallurgical combinate with heavy aircraft bombs. There are at least 1,000 civilians in the underground shelters of the metallurgical plant. Mostly women with children and the elderly.

20:01 Ukraiinska Pravda citing CNN

The United States estimates that since the end of last week, Russia has added 11 more battalion tactical groups (BTGs) to its forces in eastern and southern Ukraine, bringing the total number of Russian BTGs to 76

19:14 Novoye Vremya

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has awarded the 64th Brigade, which occupied Bucha in the Kyiv region in March, the honorary title of “Guards”.

The relevant document was published on the government portal of the Russian Federation.

The document notes that the Russian occupiers received this title “for mass heroism and courage.”

19:00 Serhii Haidai, head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Russian troops destroyed 10 homes and an Olympic training base in the Luhansk region, most of which took place in Kreminna, which the enemy captured on April 18, killing at least four civilians.

18:31 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational information as of 18.00 on 18.04.2022 regarding the Russian invasion.

The fifty-fourth day of the heroic fight of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion continues.

The Russian Federation continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. The occupiers are launching missile and bomb strikes on industrial and civilian infrastructure.

The main efforts of the enemy are focused on establishing full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintaining the previously captured territory.

Signs of the beginning of the offensive operation in the Eastern Operational Zone are recorded. In the Slobozhanshchyna and Donetsk operational districts, the aggressor intensified offensive and assault operations in some areas.

In order to strengthen the offensive capabilities, the invaders continue to form additional units in the Rostov region and in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It is planned to use them to support the fighting of the main forces in the second echelon, protection of administrative buildings and important infrastructure in the occupied territories. According to available information, the approximate date of formation is April 24 this year.

Provocative actions and the use of aircraft by the enemy in the border areas of the Russian Federation with Ukraine are possible, including strikes on civilian targets.

No significant changes in the activities of enemy troops were noted in the Volyn, Polissya, and Sivershchyna directions.
In the Slobozhanshchyna direction, the enemy group, which includes separate units of the 6th General Army of the Western Military District, the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets, continues to partially block the city of Kharkiv and destroy residential areas with artillery fire.
In the Izyum direction, the aggressor operates in separate units of the 1st Panzer Army, the 20th All-Military Army of the Western Military District, the 35th and 68th All-Military Armies of the Eastern Military District and the Airborne Forces. Attempts to advance in the Izyum-Slovyansk and Izyum-Barvinkove directions are expected to continue.

In the area close to the state border with Ukraine, in the Belgorod region, there is the deployment of helipads.

In the Donetsk and Tavriia directions, the occupying forces continue to focus their efforts on capturing the settlements of Lyman, Kreminna, Popasna and Rubizhne, as well as establishing full control over the city of Mariupol.

The enemy intensified offensive operations in the Severodonetsk, Popasna, Kurakhiv and Zaporizhzhia areas.

To increase efforts, the enemy continues to concentrate additional tank and artillery units.

The battles for Mariupol continue. The enemy is storming the seaport.

In the South Bug direction, some units of the occupiers continue to focus their main efforts on maintaining the occupied borders and shelling the positions of the Defense Forces. The enemy does not stop trying to establish full control over the territory of Kherson region. He is fighting in the area of the settlement of Oleksandrivka, however has no success.
Enemy naval groups in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas continue to isolate the sea coast of our state, as well as conducting reconnaissance.

The occupiers continue to cynically violate international humanitarian law, block initiatives to evacuate civilians from occupied settlements, refuse to coordinate humanitarian routes, and fire on areas near possible “green corridors.”

In the occupied territories, the enemy steals and exports to the Russian Federation equipment, machinery and products of local enterprises, bypasses agricultural fields.

The defense forces continue to hold certain borders, destroy the enemy and, in some areas, liberate the Ukrainian lands from the invaders.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

#stoprussia

17:32 Office of the President of Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy handed over a completed questionnaire to the head of the European Union Delegation to Ukraine, Matti Maasikas, in order to obtain the status of a candidate for EU membership

16:57 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights

The aggressor country is militarizing children in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

In the city of Starobilsk it is planned to open the largest in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region Cossack cadet corps with 400 seats. This decision was made at the end of March in Luhansk during an extended meeting on the support and development of the Cossack component in the education system “LPR”.

In addition, the occupying power plans to open cadet corps and classes in Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.

As of the end of 2021, there were 62 cadet classes in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region, with more than 1,200 children, and two cadet corps with 417 children.

Among the graduates of the cadet corps are already dead. In particular, in early April 2022, Andriy Degtyarenko, a graduate of the Republican Cossack Cadet Corps named after Marshal of Aviation Alexander Yefimov (Luhansk), a 2017 graduate, died while performing the “combat missions” of the occupiers.

By promoting the entry of civilians into the army, including children from the temporarily occupied territories, Russia grossly violates the laws and customs of war under the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on Armed Conflict.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia’s Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of violations of children’s rights in Ukraine.

15:52 Evropeiska Pravda

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi believes Europe can reduce its energy dependence on Russia faster than it was previously thought.

“Diversification is possible and feasible relatively quickly, in less time than we imagined just a month ago”, he said. “We have gas in storage and there will be new gas from other suppliers.”

Internal measures to reduce supply will be moderate. For example, lowering the heating temperature by 1-2 degrees and similar changes for air conditioners.

15:52 Ukraiinska Pravda

In the city of Henichesk, in the captured by Russian troops Kherson region, collaborators erected a monument to the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.

15:00 Suspilne TV, Ukrinform

During the missile attacks in Lviv, shrapnel hit the territory of an orphanage, where orphans evacuated from different regions are staying.

This information was confirmed to Ukrinform by Volodymyr Lys, Head of the Children’s Service of the Lviv Regional State Administration.

14:42 Andrii Sadovyi, mayor of Lviv

Update on the morning shelling of Lviv – 7 people died. These are the first deaths of civilians in our city. The youngest victim is 30 years old.

11 people were injured. Among them is three-year-old Artem. He came with his mother from Kharkiv to escape the war. But a Russian missile found them in Lviv. The child was provided with all necessary assistance. There is no threat to life. Another 3 victims are in critical condition in intensive care. Our doctors are doing everything possible to save them.

14:04 Ukrainska Pravda

Austria is exploring the possibility of launching its own investigation into war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to Euractiv, this was stated by the Ministry of Justice, writes “Evropeiska Pravda”.

10:06 Austria will be able to give up Russian natural gas, probably in a few years – the country is 80% dependent on Russian gas, so “it is impossible today, or tomorrow”. This was stated by Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on the air of the program “Meeting with the Press” on NBC, writes Bloomberg.

13:57 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

the occupiers are again using the “information alibi” technique, warning of possible provocations in Ukrainian cities during Easter.

In particular, several propaganda media reported that “more than 70 mobile groups have been formed from nationalists in cars that will fire mortars at Orthodox churches on Easter night, only to accuse the Russian military of doing so”. At the same time, the propagandists provide a specific list of regions of Ukraine where this “may happen”:

⚠ Zaporizhzhia;

⚠ Mykolayiv;

⚠ Odesa;

⚠ Sumy;

⚠ Kharkiv.

We pay attention! In all these regions there is a high probability of enemy’s sabotage activity.

We urge all Ukrainians to be very attentive and as careful as possible.

13:52 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights

The occupiers remain captives of the crews of three cargo ships – “Azburg” under the flag of Dominica, Smarta and “Blue Star-1” under the flag of Liberia.

42 members of the ship’s crew and the wife of the captain of the ship Smarta were taken hostage in the Mariupol sea trade port.

According to the captain of the ship “Azburg” Sergei Dzysyak, the crews were “tested” at the filtration camp in Mangush. They are currently in the temporarily occupied Donetsk under the constant supervision of the armed russian military.

13:42 Ukraiinska Pravda

The Foreign Ministry said that the accusations of the President of Serbia about Ukraine’s involvement in reports of mines of Serbian planes were not true.

This was stated in a comment to “Evropeiska Pravda” by Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko.

“We categorically reject the baseless accusations of the President of Serbia. His allegations of Ukraine’s alleged involvement in reports of mines on the Serbian airlines flying to Russia are untrue”, he said.

The Foreign Ministry also expressed disappointment that Serbia has not yet joined the EU sanctions imposed on Russia over its unprovoked war against Ukraine.

13:40 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

Again, a “strategic” hit by a Russian missile. They aimed at country houses in the Dnipro district.

12:57 Security Service of Ukraine

Member of Verkhovna Rada Viktor Medvedchuk, detained by the Security Service, addressed the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the President of the Russian Federation Volodymyr Putin with a proposal to exchange him for defenders and residents of Mariupol.

12:05 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Tonight there was a rocket attack on Kramatorsk, there is destruction of infrastructure – at least 8 residential buildings, educational and infrastructural facilities were destroyed

11:58 Suspline TV

On the morning of April 18, Russian troops continued shelling Kharkiv – there are casualties.

As a result of the shelling of Novi Budynky neighborhood, according to preliminary data, one person was killed and six were injured, said Viktor Zabashta, director of the Center for Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine. According to Suspilne, the shells fell near the point of humanitarian aid.

At about 11:50 a.m., the Russian military fired on a residential area in the Osnovyansky district of Kharkiv. A man and a woman were killed in the shelling.

The shells fell on the territory of playgrounds near residential buildings, the press service of the Kharkiv Prosecutor’s Office reports. A number of houses were damaged.

11:43 Petro Andriushchenko, Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol

According to updated data, the occupiers are currently holding at least 20,000 people in filtration camps along the Mangush-Nikolske-Yalta line, preventing the possibility of evacuating due to deliberate delays and slowing down the filtration procedure. Also, around 5-7 thousand people are in the filtration camp in the village Bezimenne at the stage of preparation for deportation.

11:37 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

The Russian Federation continues to torture Ukrainian political prisoners.

Volodymyr Yakymenko, who was unjustifiably detained on June 13, 2017, in Crimea and sentenced to 15 years in prison on a fabricated case for his pro-Ukrainian position, is starving in the №4 penal colony in Pugachev, Saratov Oblast (Russia), where he is currently being held.

In a Russian penitentiary, Volodymyr is deprived of breakfast, lunch, or dinner because he is Ukrainian. As a result of malnutrition, he began to have stomach pain, because he has chronic gastritis and duodenal ulcer.

Due to severe pain, Volodymyr was forced to seek medical help, but he was denied treatment. When the doctor discovered that Volodymyr is Ukrainian, he said that “Ukrainians need to be killed.”

Such actions of representatives of penitentiary institutions of the Russian Federation are torture and a way of depriving the citizens of Ukraine of the right to life, which is a violation of Articles 6, 7, 9, 14, 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Failure to provide medical care in the presence of chronic diseases is a gross violation of paragraph 22 of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, approved by the UN Economic and Social Council, and Article 17 of Federal Law № 103-FZ “On Detention of Suspects and Accused of Crimes,” as well as contrary to the guaranteed norms of Article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

11:06 Ukrainska Pravda citing the spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service Andrii Demchenko

Since the beginning of the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation, 1,060,000 Ukrainians have returned to their homeland.

11:05 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

In Kreminna, the occupiers fired on a civilian car. According to preliminary information, four people were killed and one was injured.

10:46 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The occupiers took control of Kreminna. The fighting continues. Evacuation from the city is no longer possible.

Evacuation is still carried out from Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Popasna, Hirske, and Rubizhne.

10:40 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 18.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 20600,

tanks – 790,

APV – 2041,

artillery systems – 381,

MLRS – 130,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 67,

aircraft – 167,

helicopters – 147,

vehicles – 1487,

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 155,

special equipment – 27,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data is being updated.

10:05 Head of the Lviv Region Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi

There were four missile strikes on Lviv. Three were carried on military infrastructure. One hit was on a tire fitting. There were fires as a result of missile strikes. Extinguishing is still going on. The facilities were severely damaged. It is known about 6 dead and 8 injured civilians. One child was among the injured.

Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi reports 11 wounded in the shelling of the city. About 40 cars were damaged or destroyed. The shock wave shattered the windows of a nearby hotel where evacuees from other regions live.

9:40 Chairman of the Board of Ukrzaliznytsia Oleksandr Kamyshin

This morning, Russian troops shelled Lviv. Several rockets hit near railway facilities. There are no casualties among passengers and railway workers.

Earlier, Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi reported 5 targeted missile strikes on Lviv.

9:15 Head of the Zaporizhzhia Region Military Administration Oleksandr Starukh

Sixteen-year-old son of Oleh Buriak, head of the military administration of the Zaporizhzhia district, was abducted. At the checkpoint in Vasylivka, the child was taken away in an unknown direction.

8:50 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

In the morning, the invaders struck at the Dnipropetrovsk region, but 60% of the missiles were shot down by the Ukrainian air defence.

As a result of the strike on the infrastructure facility in the Synelnykove district, two people were injured. Rescuers extinguished the fire.

In the Pavlohrad district, the missile destroyed the railway infrastructure. No one was injured.

8:03 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of April 18, more than 567 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 205 children were killed and 362 received injuries of varying severity.

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 117, Kyiv – 107, Kharkiv – 91, Chernihiv – 54, Kherson – 43, Mykolaiv – 40, Luhansk – 36, Zaporizhzhia – 23, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15.

7:56 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Yesterday Russians shelled the building of the regional patrol police department in Lysychansk. Six employees were hospitalised.

7:22 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians hit the Olymp sports complex in Kreminna – an area of ignition of 2,400 square metres. At least 15 houses were set on fire in the region.

The sports complex, where representatives of the Ukrainian Olympic team usually trained, was recently rebuilt under the President’s program “Great Construction”. Rescuers are trying to localise the fire because there is a danger of inflammation of the nearby forest.

6:45 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 18, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The fifty-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are completing the creation of an offensive group in the Eastern Operational Zone. The Russian enemy also continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine.
In the Volyn and Polissya areas, the Russian enemy did not take active action, and no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found. Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions. In these areas, the enemy conducts electronic warfare reconnaissance. The export of damaged armoured vehicles of the Armed Forces of the Russian federation is recorded by rail from the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy exercises increased control over border areas. Engineering equipment of positions in the areas of checkpoints and the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation continues. The involvement of sabotage and reconnaissance groups and missile strikes from the territory of the Russian Federation is not ruled out.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian occupiers continue to partially blockade Kharkiv and try to carry out fire damage to units of our troops.
To expand the bridgehead on the left bank of the Siversky Donets River and create conditions for the rapid deployment of troops, the Russian enemy conducted reconnaissance by fighting in the settlements of Zavody, Dmytrivka, and Dibrovne. It was unsuccessful.
In the Donetsk and Tavriia directions, the Russian enemy regains combat capability and replenishes its reserves. It is trying to improve the tactical position of its units and intensify hostilities. The Russian occupiers continue shelling the settlements of Siversk and Pokrovske.
The Russian enemy concentrated its main efforts in the areas of the settlements of Lyman, Kreminna, Popasna, and Rubizhne, trying to establish full control over the city of Mariupol. It carried out offensive operations in the Sievierodonetsk, Popasna, and Zaporizhzhia directions.
The Russian enemy tried unsuccessfully to gain a foothold in the areas of Kreminna and Rubizhne. It carried out assault operations in the areas of Novotoshkivske, Popasna, Avdiivka, and Marinka. It was also unsuccessful.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy focuses its main efforts on maintaining its positions and continues to exert fire on the positions of our troops in the directions of Mykolaiv and Oleksandrivka.
It is expected that the Russian enemy will continue to fight to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region.
In total, 87 battalion tactical groups of the Russian enemy were involved in the implementation of combat missions on the territory of Ukraine.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, defenders of Ukraine repulsed twelve enemy attacks, destroyed ten tanks, fifteen armoured units, and five vehicles, as well as five enemy artillery systems.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has hit five air targets the day before: one plane, three helicopters, and one UAV.

0:30 Ukrinform citing the Chief of the Mariupol Patrol Police Mykhailo Vershynin

On the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, there is a large number of civilians – women, the elderly, children, and one infant.

“These people were hiding from the shelling in the factory’s warehouses; they do not trust the Russian military because they saw what was happening in the city,” the statement said.

00:00 Mariupol City Council

The Russian occupiers are preparing a massive strike on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, where hundreds of civilians are hiding. This was reported by Ukrainian journalist Artem Popov.

According to the Ukrainian military, the occupiers plan to bomb Azovstal with FAB 1000 and FAB 3000 aircraft bombs. Currently, about 1,000 more civilians from Mariupol, including children, are in the plant’s warehouses.

🔵17.04.2022

23:14 Ukrzaliznytsia

Passengers must have an international passport to cross the border with EU countries. Ukrzaliznytsia expects updated rules from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

Exceptions are possible at the discretion of border guards, provided that there are other identity documents and the presence of hostilities in the region from which the passenger leaves.

22:36 Spokesperson for the Odesa Regional Military Administration Serhii Bratchuk

Kherson residents report that the Russian occupiers are preparing a provocation in the city. BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers are being deployed in the area of Antonivskyi Bridge to strike at Kherson and accuse the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Russians want to make this provocation so that it becomes the reason for “saving” the city and holding a referendum there.

22:24 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

The Centre for Countering Disinformation reports on the main topics promoted by the Russian media last week.

The following messages were spread in the media:

1. Ukraine loses the war;

2. The West uses Ukraine against Russia;

3. A powerful information attack is being carried out against Russia.

Propagandists cover these topics as follows:

1. The “special operation” is going according to plan. All planned actions are successfully performed. Preparations for the second stage of the operation are underway. Ukraine has no chance and would have been captured, but the Russian military is protecting the civilian population, so the operation is delayed;

2. Russia is at war with NATO, not Ukraine. NATO provides Ukraine with weapons to weaken Russia with the help of others;

3. The whole world, led by the United States, is conducting a fake campaign against Russia to justify sanctions and weaken the economy. Also, all are silent about the atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and accuse Russia.

21:22 Ukrainska Pravda citing the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence Kyryl Budanov

There is no agreement among the Russian generals on offensive operations because they are afraid of dying on the battlefield.

20:15 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

In the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian defenders are conducting several successful operations, pushing the occupiers away from Kharkiv. As a result of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces, Bazaliivka, Lebiazhe, and part of Kutuzivka were liberated. In the area of the village of Mala Rohan, Ukrainian units advanced further east.

18:12 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russian occupiers fired on an Orthodox church in Sievierodonetsk on Palm Sunday. That is the fourth strike on the Holy Christ Christmas Cathedral. This time the shells hit the roof. In total, about 10 religious buildings have already been damaged in the Luhansk region as a result of the shelling.

18:00 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 17, 2022.

The fifty-third day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. The Russian occupiers continue to launch missile and bomb strikes on Ukraine’s industrial and civil infrastructure.
The enemy did not take active action in the Volyn and Polissia areas.
In the Siversky direction, there is a possibility that the Russian enemy will use sabotage and reconnaissance groups and launch missile strikes from the territory of the Russian federation on elements of the military and civilian infrastructure of our state.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy continues to partially block Kharkiv, trying to fire on the positions of units of Ukrainian troops and critical infrastructure.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy intensified hostilities. It continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on the city of Mariupol, including with the use of Tu-22M3 strategic bombers. The Russian occupiers tried to carry out assault operations near the seaport and the Azovstal plant.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy continued to focus its efforts on maintaining its positions. In the area of the settlement of Vasylivka, Zaporizhzhia oblast, it was noted that the enemy, probably to carry out provocations, drew off the letters Z on the equipment and set Ukrainian flags.
Information about the destruction of the Moscow missile cruiser by Ukraine has gained considerable public response in Crimea. There is growing distrust among the population about the information disseminated by the official Russian media.
Due to a lack of human resources, the Russian invaders are trying to involve locals in the temporarily occupied territories. Thus, in the city of Izium, the forced mobilisation of men has begun.
Preparations for an illegal referendum on the proclamation of the so-called “Kherson People’s Republic” continue in some territories temporarily occupied by the Russian occupiers. To falsify its results, it is planned to use personal data of residents of the region, which are collected by the Russian occupiers during the issuance of so-called “humanitarian aid”. Residents are also spreading information that after the announcement of the results of the pseudo-referendum, their “mobilisation” into the armed forces of the Russian federation will begin.
During the training activities before the deployment of units to participate in the war with Ukraine on the training grounds in the Russian Federation, more than 50 cases of unauthorised leaving of field camps by personnel were noted.
The Ukrainian military is defending itself and is gradually pushing back enemy troops in certain areas.

16:05 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Two people were killed and four were wounded in a Russian shelling of the city centre of Zolote.

15:23 SuspilneAccording to the Department of Health of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, five people were killed and 13 were wounded in the shelling of the city centre of Kharkiv. About 15 fires broke out. Rescuers are working at the sites of the shelling.

13:59 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Russification of deported Ukrainians is taking place in Russia. The self-proclaimed mayor of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov announced the creation of summer “retraining camps” on the peninsula for teachers from Kherson, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions. Ukrainian children will be forced to take “language courses.” According to the occupiers, children from Ukraine do not know enough Russian.

11:13 Borova Town Council in the Kharkiv region according to Ukrinform

The Russian military controls the entire territory of the community. It is currently impossible to go beyond its borders to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. In some villages, the occupiers began looting abandoned homes of locals. Marauders plunder the property and take it out by trucks.

11:03 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

Over the past 24 hours, the Russian occupation forces have fired 23 artillery, mortar, and MLRS shells in the areas of Pivnichna Saltivka, Piatihatki, Oleksiivka, the city centre, the Kharkiv Tractor Plant, and Derhachi. There was 1 missile strike.

As a result of the shelling of the Russians, 31 people were injured, including 4 children. 3 civilians were killed.

9:35 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 17.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 20300,

tanks – 773,

APV – 2002,

artillery systems – 376,

MLRS – 127,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 66,

aircraft – 165,

helicopters – 146,

vehicles – 1471,

boats / cutters – 8,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 148,

special equipment – 27,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data is being updated.

9:11 Mayor of Brovary Ihor Sapozhko

On Sunday, several infrastructure facilities in the Brovary community of the Kyiv region were hit by enemy missiles, with possible water and light outages.

07:44 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii HaidaiAt night, four high-rise buildings caught fire in Sievierodonetsk, and a house was destroyed in Novodruzhesk. In the morning, the Russian army hit Kreminna with artillery – one person was wounded.

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21:55 Ukrainska Pravda citing the comment of the Mayor of Trostianets Yuriy Bova on the air of Ukrainian radio

“We found the remains of chemical weapons in the village of Bilka. These are sarin and other substances. Ampoules were found. Now the Security Service of Ukraine is dealing with this. Perhaps the occupiers wanted to use this chemical in Kyiv, Poltava or other cities.”

21:23 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Russia uses children deported from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine for its propaganda. The Kremlin media is spreading disinformation about how “the Ukrainian regime, imitating the Third Reich, sends children to fight.”

Putin’s propaganda allegedly uses interviews with Ukrainian children to confirm this fake. The materials contain meaningless quotes, in addition to which pseudo-journalists disinform that “these children have been working as spies in Ukraine since the beginning of the special operation.”

19:48 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Information regarding the Russian invasion: operational situation on the diplomatic front as of 19:00, April 16.

For fifty-two days in a row, Ukraine has been fiercely resisting Russia’s armed aggression on all fronts, including diplomatic.

International support

The Polish Post has joined the appeal of the Universal Postal Union to halt the delivery of parcels to Russia and Belarus. Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Australia, and Latvia also joined the blockade.
Deputies of the Krakow City Council named the square near the Consulate General of Russia “Free Ukraine”.
A group of Lithuanian parliamentarians and ministers proposes to make May 9 not only Europe Day but also Genocide Remembrance Day in Ukraine.

Effect of sanctions

As part of the implementation of sanctions, French authorities froze the real estate of Russian oligarchs: the villa of Putin’s close friend Arkadiy Rothenberg and the villa of Alexander Ponomarenko. The villa of SUEK and Eurochem owner Andriy Melnychenko was arrested on the Cote d’Azur. In Cannes – the house of the former chairman and co-owner of the company “Sibur” Dmitryi Konov. Two hotels belonging to Olena Yermakova, wife of billionaire Hennady Tymchenko, were also arrested.

Isolation of the Russian federation

French cosmetics chain L’Occitane closes all its stores in Russia and shuts down its Russian website.
Latvian national airline Air Baltic, which operates passenger and freight services, has decided to leave the Russian market and cancel all flights to and from Russia.
Israeli online platform for freelancers Fiverr has suspended its activities in Russia.
The German insurance company Munich Re Group, one of the leaders in the global insurance market, has left Russian business.

Humanitarian aid

13 cars and minibuses were sent from Latvia for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in particular, for territorial defence units and charitable organisations.

17:20 Suspilne

The governments of Italy, Romania and Belgium have decided to ban Russian-flagged ships from entering their ports. Estonia and Bulgaria also joined the decision on April 17th.

16:05 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians disrupted the evacuation from Lysychansk. During the “regime of silence”, the Russian army opened fire on the centre of Lysychansk.

14:49 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Russia fired on settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including residential neighbourhoods of the city of Polohy. Among the victims is a 12-year-old child.

13:43 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

In Kherson, the Russian occupiers distributed leaflets addressing citizens to collaborate with the enemy, calling the Ukrainians themselves and their chosen government guilty of aggression. The message also says that the Russians “must challenge the collective West to overthrow the Kyiv regime.”

11:50 State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Firefighters and rescuers from the United States, Australia, Germany, and Poland have arrived in Ukraine to help Ukrainian counterparts deal with the aftermath of the war in occupied cities and villages.

06:36 Office of the President of Ukraine

Report on the situation in the regions on the morning of April 16

Dnipropetrovsk region

At night, the enemy hit the object of economic infrastructure. The buildings were destroyed.

Poltava region

Late in the evening, there was a hit on the object of economic infrastructure in one of the villages of the region. There is the destruction of buildings. One person died and one was injured.

Kirovograd region

There was a strike on the infrastructure late in the evening. The fire was extinguished. There are dead and injured. Emergency and recovery works are underway.

Kharkiv region

The intensity of shelling in some areas of Kharkiv for the day increased. Yesterday, more than 50 people were injured and 9 civilians were killed in the city. The occupiers fired on Derhachi, Balaklia, and Zolochiv. 3 people were injured and 2 died. The battles continue in the Izium direction.

Luhansk region

Mortar shelling of Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk and Kreminna continued. One civilian was killed in Kreminna and three were injured in Lysychansk. The central gas pipeline in Sievierodonetsk was damaged. An enemy projectile hit the gas pipeline and an oil refinery in Lysychansk. The Russians also aimed at 8 bread vans.

Donetsk region

In the evening there were shellings in the villages of Zaporizhzhia and Sribne in the Pokrovsky district. There was a fire in residential buildings, and the kindergarten was damaged. At night and until the morning there were shellings in the area of Novoselivka-3 of the Ocheretyn community. The situation in Mariupol remains critical.

Kherson region

Explosions and shelling can be heard in the region. The humanitarian crisis in many settlements.

Mykolaiv region

During the last days, the Russian troops struck from jet systems of volley fire on civilian objects of Mykolaiv. 5 people died and 15 were injured. This morning in Mykolaiv the infrastructure object was fired. According to preliminary information, there are no victims.

In the morning, the Russian occupiers fired on Kyiv – explosions erupted in the Darnytskyi district on the outskirts of the city. One person died and several were hospitalised.

Air defence forces worked in the Lviv region and shot down 4 cruise missiles.

Russian troops launched a missile strike on the infrastructure of the airfield of the city of Oleksandria, Kirovograd region.

01:31 Suspilne

The heads of the Italian and French embassies in Ukraine, Francesco Zazo and Etienne de Poncins, have returned to Kyiv.

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19:59 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

In Lysychansk, a volunteer couple came under fire. A man died, and a woman is in intensive care.

19:45 Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal

The government has begun work on establishing an International Demining Centre in Ukraine.

“The Russian army has left behind thousands of mines, shells, and bombs. Our pyrotechnic heroes have neutralized more than 80,000 of them. Every day 4-5 thousand dangerous items are neutralized. But, unfortunately, for months and years to come, we will find and neutralize such remnants of the “Russian world” on our land,” Shmygal said.

19:28 Head of Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Vitalii Kim

As a result of today’s shelling of residential areas of Mykolaiv, five people died, and 15 were wounded. One of the victims lifted unexploded ordnance.

19:20 International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva

The IMF stepped up with $1.4 billion in emergency financing to help meet Ukraine’s immediate spending needs. Last week it launched a special account that gives a secure way to provide further funding to Ukraine. Together with international partners, it is preparing for the massive reconstruction effort that will be required.

19:06 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

The Russian army shelled one of the residential neighbourhoods of Kharkiv. 34 people were injured, including 3 children. 7 people died, including one seven-month-old child.

18:48 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 15, 2022

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The fifty-first day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The situation in all directions has not changed significantly today. A Russian enemy continues to launch missile strikes on industrial and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and is trying to launch an offensive in some areas. Airstrikes on the city of Mariupol continue.
The partial blockade of Kharkiv continues.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian enemy tried to storm Marinka, but was unsuccessful.
In violation of the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the Russian occupiers in the temporarily occupied territories continue to oppress the rights of Ukrainian citizens. Violating the rules of warfare, sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the enemy, carrying out sabotage on the territory of Ukraine, stealing or, threatening physical violence, take away motor vehicles and civilian clothes from residents.
To suppress Ukrainian resistance, the Russian occupiers are filtering and searching for people involved in military service.
In the areas of Luhansk oblast temporarily occupied by the Russian enemy, the usage of buildings and adjacent territories of secondary schools for the installation of additional field hospitals, places for weapons, ammunition, and military equipment is recorded.
In some settlements, the Russian enemy is trying to imitate elections and illegally appoint “local governments” from among residents loyal to the occupying power.
Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to maintain certain defensive lines, inflict losses on the enemy and gradually liberate settlements from the troops of Russian invaders.

18:40 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the CNN interview

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN that all of the countries of the world should be prepared for the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use tactical nuclear weapons.

17:25 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

The occupiers fired on buses trying to evacuate people from the areas of hostilities.

During the evacuation of residents from the city of Starobilsk, Luhansk region to the Dnipro on two buses Russians opened fire – there are wounded and dead. More detailed information is being established.

The occupier once again uses weapons to prevent the evacuation of civilians in the territory controlled by Ukraine.

As a result of the shelling of evacuation buses with civilians in the village of Borovo, Izium district, Kharkiv region, according to preliminary data, 7 people were killed and 27 were injured.

Such actions by the Russian occupiers are a war crime under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and a gross violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation of Human Rights Violations during the Russian military invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of Russian crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.

17:25 First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevhen Yenin

“Thanks to reports from citizens, we have detained a significant number of representatives of sabotage and reconnaissance groups. According to the information we have from our intelligence agencies, the sabotage and reconnaissance activities of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine are expected to intensify soon,” Yenin said.

15:45 European Pravda

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday, more than five million people have left Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24.

UNHCR counted exactly 4,796,245 Ukrainians who left Ukraine after the start of the war with Russia on Friday.

According to the International Organisation for Migration, about 215,000 citizens of other countries have also fled Ukraine.

15:25 Ukrainska Pravda

Update on the night explosions in Kyiv and the Kyiv region: the Vizar machine-building plant in Vyshneve was damaged.

14:42 State Boarder Guard Service

Border positions were shelled again in the Chernihiv region. 12 mortar shots of 122 mm and 82 mm caliber were fired from the Russian territory this afternoon. There are no victims among the border guards and the local population. Data are currently being updated.

14:34 Ukrainska Pravda citing Minister of Health Viktor Liashko

The coronavirus pandemic has declined in Ukraine.

14:17 Ukrainska Pravda

At night, residents of Kyiv and the Kyiv region heard explosions. Several rockets were fired, and the air defense was working. The authorities do not report the consequences.

14:09 Сhairman of the Mykolaiv Regional Council Hanna Zamazieieva

Russian invaders fired at residential quarters of Mykolaiv with multiple rocket launchers – there are victims.

13:45 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Artur Krupskyi, the head of the Polohy district state administration, spoke about the situation in the occupied Tokmak and Molochansk.

The occupiers removed the legitimately elected mayor of Molochansk from power. She is still a prisoner of the occupiers. The occupying self-proclaimed “mayor” has not yet been presented.

In Tokmak, Volodymyr Volvach has been appointed acting mayor. Ihor Kotelevsky resigned but continues to work in the city and help the people of Tokmak.

About a week ago, a checkpoint was set up in the Molochansk community. The Russians did not release anyone and went to houses and apartments, looking for and capturing Anti-Terrorist Operation participants (they have lists) and pro-Ukrainian activists. They also check phones.

The humanitarian situation in the occupied territories is quite difficult.

13:10 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Heavy shelling of Popasna. Only three people were evacuated.

12:45 Ukrinform citing РAP

Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland: “In my personal opinion, it would be difficult to call it anything other than genocide, when the army enters the territory of a sovereign state and kills people just because they are Ukrainians.”

12:47 Suspilne citing the spokesman for the Kharkiv Region Prosecutor’s Office Dmytro Chubenko

Seven people were killed in Russian military shelling of civilian buses near the town of Borova in the Izium district on April 14, and another 27 civilians were injured. Circumstances and route of buses are established by militiamen. Borova is under temporary occupation.

12:21 State Emergency Service of Ukraine

The enemy continues to open fire with various weapons on the cities of Sievierodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kreminna, Lysychansk, Novodruzhesk, Popasna, Hirske, and Zolote. Entire neighbourhoods are on fire as a result of the shelling. There are dead and wounded civilians.

In recent days, Kreminna has been under heavy enemy fire. The occupiers are targeting residential neighborhoods. One person was killed and five were injured yesterday. Despite the shelling, fire and rescue units of the SES managed to eliminate all fires that occurred in the city.

Firefighters from Luhansk Region extinguished fires in residential buildings in Sievierodonetsk, Zolote, and Lysychansk.

Rescuers are urging citizens to evacuate from the war zone, but some people remain in basements and bomb shelters, so rescuers deliver water and humanitarian supplies to them.

According to the head of the Luhansk military administration Serhii Haidai, in the last 24 hours, 27 residents of Sievierodonetsk, 90 of Lychychansk, 9 of Popasna (one of them wounded and two who do not move independently), 13 of Rubizhne, 34 of Kreminna, and 52 of Hirska community were evacuated.

12:01 Security Service of Ukraine

Russia is grossly violating the Geneva Convention and other international standards for the treatment of prisoners of war. The Security Service has received a shocking record where a Russian executioner brags to his friend about the atrocities he committed – cutting off the fingers and hands of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

10:57 Spokesman for the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration colonel Ivan Arefiev

As a result of artillery shelling of the city of Vasylivka from the positions of the Russian Armed Forces, probably located in the town of Mykhailivka and village of Orlianske, several residential buildings in the city center and the private sector were damaged, a grocery store was destroyed and a depot at Tavriisk railway station was damaged. 1 person was killed and 5 were injured.

10:22 Suspilne citing the head of Koriukivka District Military Administration Ivan Vashchenko

The Russians fired mortars at the positions of border guards in the Chernihiv region. On the morning of April 15, Russian troops fired on border guards’ positions in the Snovsk community. The information was confirmed by the spokeswoman of the Chernihiv border detachment Halyna Shekhovtsova. According to her, on the territory near the settlement of Senkivka there was mortar shelling in two stages from the territory of the Russian Federation. There are no victims among the border guards.

10:21 Suspilne citing Gazeta Prawna

Poland has single-handedly imposed an embargo on Russian coal imports, pending a decision by other European Union countries.

“The president signed an act on special decisions in the field of countering the support of aggression against Ukraine and protection of national security, which provides, in particular, the introduction of an embargo on coal imports from Russia,” the statement said.

The law also provides for the possibility of freezing the assets of those who supported the Russian aggression and allows the creation of a list of people and legal entities to whom restrictive measures will be applied, including the blocking of their funds and resources.

In addition, the law prohibits the use or advertising of symbols or names that confirm Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Such actions are punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to 2 years.

9:50 State Bureau of Investigation

The SBI is investigating more than 230 counts of treason, two-thirds of which are in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

SBI investigators have initiated 154 criminal proceedings for treason and 81 criminal proceedings for collaborative activities since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.

Among the defendants are heads of village councils, deputies of various levels, officials, judges, law enforcement officers, and servicemen.

9:42 Security Service of Ukraine

Russia itself fired on the Russian village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region, although it blamed Ukraine. This is confirmed by recent interceptions of telephone conversations of the occupiers, which are at the disposal of the SSU.

“It’s ours strikes,” explains the Russian aggressor, who is currently in the Donetsk region, to his wife.

To her question “Why do that?” he replies: “It is necessary. This is done to stage it as khokhols (a derogatory Russian term for Ukrainians – ed.) provocation.”

The Kremlin is indifferent not only to its military but also to civilian Russians, who also suffered from the shelling of Russian troops.

“It was the same in the Chechen war. Apartments were blown up in Moscow like it was terrorists. It was FSB members. However, now they (Ukrainians – ed.) could not strike from such a distance to Klimovo,” adds the occupier.

9:14 Mariupol City Council

Russians have reached a new level of “cleansing”. According to Mariupol residents who remain in the city, Russian troops have begun the process of exhuming bodies that were previously buried in the yards of residential buildings. Moreover, the occupiers forbid the burial of people killed by them. In each yard, they put their overseer, who does not allow Mariupol residents to bury their deceased relatives or acquaintances. It is unknown why the exhumation will take place and where the bodies will be sent.

8:59 Head of Zaporizhzhia Region Military Administration Oleksandr Starukh

Hundreds of people have been abducted in the Zaporizhzhia region since the start of the war with Russia. Among them are politicians, journalists, and educators.

8:29 Skadovsk Mayor Oleksandr Yakovliev

This morning in Skadovsk, the occupiers removed Ukrainian flags from the city council building and the flagpole in the city center and hoisted Russian flags.

“Skadovsk City Council will not cooperate with the occupiers, so from today, no employee of the executive committee will work in the building under the enemy flag. Regardless of external circumstances and our position, our service to Ukraine, our hometown, and our community continues.” stated the Mayor.

8:22 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of April 15, more than 553 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 198 children were killed and 355 received injuries of varying severity.

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 117, Kyiv – 105, Kharkiv – 81, Chernihiv – 54, Mykolaiv – 40, Kherson – 38, Luhansk – 36, Zaporizhzhia – 23, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

6:58 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 15, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The fifty-first day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

A Russian enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on the infrastructure of settlements in Ukraine.
In the Volyn and Polissia directions, separate units of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus perform tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions.
The situation in the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions is unchanged.
In the South Buh area, the enemy is trying to carry out fortification equipment positions and replenish stocks of weapons and military equipment, ammunition and fuel, and oil. It conducts reconnaissance with the involvement of unmanned aerial vehicles.
In the Donetsk and Tavriia directions, the Russian enemy’s main efforts were focused on attempts to capture the settlements of Popasna and Rubizhne. It is not successful.
Thus, in the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, eight enemy attacks were repulsed in the past 24 hours, four tanks, six armoured personnel carriers, four infantry fighting vehicles, and one enemy artillery system were destroyed.

1:11 Interfax-Ukraine citing the Mayor of Bucha Anatolii Fedoruk

“Almost 85% of all the bodies raised from mass graves or individual burials in gardens, parks, squares, and yards, have bullet holes. That is, a deliberately premeditated murder occurred in Bucha.”

1:04 Operational Command “South”After intense negotiations, an agreement on the exchange of prisoners was reached in the area of the village of Posad-Pokrovske, where 4 Russian prisoners of war were exchanged for 5 Ukrainians.

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23:09 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the BBC interview

Russian occupiers destroyed 95% of buildings in Mariupol, and tens of thousands of residents were deported to Russia.

22:54 Ukrainska Pravda

Russia’s Defence Ministry has admitted that the Moskva cruiser sank – the agency says it happened after a long fire on board while the cruiser was being towed to Sevastopol.

Earlier it was reported that the cruiser Moskva was hit in the Black Sea operational zone of the Neptune anti-ship missile. The flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was severely damaged. There was a fire. Other units of the ship’s group tried to help, but a storm and a powerful ammunition explosion overturned the cruiser, so it began to sink.

22:16 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes that the enemy spread on April 14, 2022:

In the Ukrainian and Russian segments of social networks, a video was spread in which representatives of the “Right Sector” allegedly forced servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to carry out executions of civilians. According to the video, this was to be “revenge for Bucha”;
The Russian Defense Ministry claims that “Ukrainian specialists under the supervision of American scientists took water samples in large rivers of Ukraine to spread the pathogens of cholera, typhoid fever, and hepatitis”;
The Russian Defense Ministry claims that “Ukrainian nationalists plan to blow up the overpass over the railway in Kramatorsk district to accuse the Russian Federation of destroying important infrastructure.”

21:34 Ukrainska Pravda citing the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrskyi

When the Russian occupiers fled Chornobyl, they robbed a police station where radioactive items seized from citizens were stored.

“They took a lot of things, in particular, they robbed a police station right on the territory of Chornobyl. There were seized radioactive items. They have disappeared, so we understand that they are now in parcels sent from Belarus to Russia. Do not envy those mothers and wives who will receive such gifts.”

21:05 Ievhen Ryshchuk, mayor of Oleshky, Kherson region

The Russian army enters the city of Oleshki in the Kherson region, the Russian flag is already hanging over the city hall.

According to Ryshchuk, a lot of locals have left, however the city’s utility services are working.

The mayor warned that the Russians intend to patrol the streets. Ryshchuk asks locals not to leave their homes during the curfew.

20:34 Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Verkhovna Rada has banned symbols used by the Russian armed forces in the war against Ukraine.

Bill № 7214 recognizes the Russian state as a terrorist state, one of the goals of whose political regime is the genocide of the Ukrainian people, physical destruction, mass murder of Ukrainian citizens, international crimes against civilians, use of prohibited methods of war, destruction of civilian and critical facilities infrastructure, artificial creation of a humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine or its regions.

The political regime of the Russian Federation is recognized as Nazi in its essence and practice and ideologically imitates the National Socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regime that existed in Hitler’s Germany.

The bill prohibits the propaganda of the Russian Nazi totalitarian regime, the armed aggression of the Russian Federation as a terrorist state against Ukraine.

20:08 Forbes Ukraine

Since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian army has destroyed 5,260 units of enemy equipment. Among them, the Russian missile cruiser Moskva is Russia’s most expensive military loss in the war with Ukraine. It costs about $750 million.

19:51 Igor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv

The intensity of shelling has increased in Kharkiv. In the evening the city was hit again.

“The situation is tense. Since the beginning of the war, the enemy has been shelling the city constantly, and the geography of bombing has sharply expanded. There are practically no areas where shells have not hit”, said Igor Terekhov.

19:27 Ukrainska Pravda

The governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Gladkov, allegedly claimed that Ukraine had shelled the village of Zhuravlyovka, from which residents had previously been evacuated, as well as the village of Spodaryushino.

Earlier on Thursday, Gladkov also announced “shelling” by Ukraine of the village of Spodaryushino, Grayvoron city district. However, he said at the time that there were no casualties among the civilian population, as well as the destruction of housing and social facilities.

18:41 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational information as of 18.00 on 14.04.2022 regarding the Russian invasion

The fiftieth day of the heroic opposition of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion continues.

The enemy is trying to complete preparations for an offensive operation in the Eastern Operational Zone. The aviation group and the command and control system are being built up.

The enemy continues to launch missile and bomb attacks on infrastructure facilities and residential areas of cities and villages of our state.

In order to conduct hostilities on the territory of Ukraine, the occupiers are training additional units of the Northern Fleet and the 8th All-Military Army of the Southern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. To provide units with weapons and military equipment, measures are being taken to remove them from long-term storage at bases and warehouses.

According to the available information, the losses in the 126th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade (Perevalne) and the 127th Separate Reconnaissance Brigade (Sevastopol) amount to more than 50 percent of the personnel.

The command of the Russian army fails to implement plans to mobilize human resources in the North Caucasus region to participate in the war against Ukraine. The main reason is the reluctance of the population of this region to take part in hostilities.

Due to the critical situation with the staffing of combat units, the command of the armed forces of the Russian Federation plans to begin a new process of mobilization at the national level. According to the plan, the mobilization, in order to hide it, will be carried out in parallel with the planned conscription.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya areas has not changed significantly. There is a movement of units of the 36th All-Military Army of the Eastern Military District by rail from the territory of the Gomel region of the Republic of Belarus. The threat of missile strikes from the territory of Belarus on the objects of our State remains.
In the Northern direction, the enemy is regrouping units with their further concentration in the areas bordering Ukraine. From the territory of the Bryansk and Kursk regions there is a movement to the Belgorod and Voronezh regions of Russia.
In the Slobozhanshchyna direction, the occupiers are conducting reconnaissance of probable areas of attack, increasing the system of reconnaissance and medical support. Stocks are being replenished.

The partial blockade and shelling of the city of Kharkiv continues.

In the city of Belgorod, the enemy deployed a unit of information and psychological operations of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in order to intensify measures of psychological influence on units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the civilian population of Kharkiv region. The goal is to demoralize and end the resistance.

The occupiers continue to prepare for active action in the areas of Slovyansk and Barvinkove.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy, with the support of aircraft and artillery, continues to attack in certain directions. The main efforts are focused on establishing control over the settlements of Popasna, Rubizhne, Severodonetsk and Slovyansk.

The enemy tried to break through our defenses in the areas of Rubizhne, Novotoshkivske and Marinka. He was not successful. He continued to launch air strikes on Mariupol.

There have been no significant changes in the situation in the South Bug region.

In the Black Sea and Azov operational zones, enemy naval groups continue to carry out tasks to isolate the area of hostilities and reconnaissance.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

18:34 Radio Liberty

Verkhovna Rada recognized the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine since February 24 as genocide of the Ukrainian people.

MPs passed a resolution which approves recognizing the genocide.

“The actions committed by the RF Armed Forces are not just a crime of aggression, but pursue the goal of systematic and consistent destruction of the Ukrainian people, their identity and deprivation of their right to self-determination and independent development. This requires immediate recognition of the actions committed by the RF Armed Forces during the last phase of the Russian armed aggression against Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, as genocide of the Ukrainian people”, the explanatory note to the resolution reads.

17:49 Novoye Vremya

Russia’s Defense Ministry has invented new fakes about Ukraine – now it is a “water biological” weapon.

During a briefing, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that there is another type of biological laboratory in Ukraine: it collects pathogens of cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and E in the Dnieper, Dniester, Danube and North Crimean canals to “draw conclusions about the possibility of their spread by water “to Russia.

Of course, the ministry also did not forget to mention that all this is happening through American scientists.

17:43 Reuters

Moldova on Thursday accused the Russian army of trying to recruit Moldovan citizens for the war in Ukraine.

“Such actions do not promote peace for all of us, our fellow citizens, our families. Such things are very dangerous and must be stopped,” said Moldovan Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu.

17:27 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration

For the first time in 10 days, the Russians fired artillery or mortar shells at the border settlements of Sumy Region. 120-mm mines were dropped, private houses were damaged. One mine destroyed a private house, flew straight into the living apartment. The Russians shelled the village of Velyka Pisarivka.

16:42 Operational Command “South”

The occupiers continue to fire on the civilian population of Chernihiv region with weapons prohibited by international law.

Today the invaders aimed at one of the private houses in Horodnia. Previously, the strike was made from the Tactical Operational Missile Complex “Tochka”.

15:26 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, the occupiers have destroyed 120 schools, 103 kindergartens, 37 universities in Donetsk region

14:57 Vice Prime Minister Iryna VereshchukThe fourth exchange of prisoners of war took place. 5 officers and 17 servicemen were exchanged. Also 8 civilians, including 1 woman, were released. In total, 30 of our citizens are going home today.

14:56 Ukriform citing the Crimean Human Rights Group

In the occupied Crimea, a resident complained about a yellow and blue manicure of a woman in Yalta. She was summoned to the Federal Security Service and forced to erase her manicure.

14:20 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Russia’s special services have begun implementing a plan to carry out staged terrorist attacks on their territory to fuel anti-Ukrainian hysteria.

As of April 14, there have been several “terrorist attacks” on the Russian border, in which the Russian leadership accuses Ukrainian sabotage and intelligence groups, including:

Russian media, citing the governor of the Kursk region, said that on April 13, there was a shelling of the Russian border patrol in the Korenevsky district. The report states that the shelling took place from a forest strip on Ukrainian territory;
the FSB of the Russian Federation reported that on April 14, a border checkpoint in the Bryansk region was shelled by Ukraine, as a result of which two cars were damaged and no one was injured.

Earlier, the Centre for Countering Disinformation warned of the enemy’s intentions to commit a series of terrorist acts on the Russian border to consolidate the Russians against the Ukrainians.

13:52 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii HaidaiThe Russians have once again opened fire on Kreminna in recent days. There are damaged houses that are still under inspection. Currently, two people were injured by shell fragments. The state of health of woman and man is moderate. The issue of their evacuation to medical institutions in other regions is being resolved.

12:54 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

The MFA of Ukraine welcomes the publication of the comprehensive Report on violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed by the Russian Federation and its armed forces during the ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine.

“The findings of the Report clearly testify to the fact that Russia’s violations are on a scale that the international community has not seen in Europe in decades and that urgent action is needed to stop the aggressor-state. The recognition in the Report that certain parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions have also been occupied by Russia since 2014 is of crucial importance,” the MFA of Ukraine stated.

12:43 Operational Command “South”

The cruiser Moskva was hit in the Black Sea operational zone of the anti-ship missile “Neptune”. The flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was severely damaged. There was a fire. Other units of the ship’s group tried to help, but a storm and a powerful explosion of ammunition overturned the cruiser, so it began to sink.

12:40 Head of the State Boarder Guard Service Serhii Deineko In the Kyiv region, Ukrainian border guards have reached the Vilcha checkpoint on the border with Belarus. The Russians destroyed its infrastructure while they were stationing there. The danger of mining and shelling remains. In particular, yesterday in the Chernihiv region, the Russians opened fire with grenade launchers and small arms from their Pogar checkpoint.

12:39 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Two Ukrainian pilots who were held captive by the Russian occupiers were released by the Ministry of Defence. Ivan Pepeliashko and Oleksii Chyzh were taken prisoner on March 8 near the village of Nova Basan, Chernihiv region.

The place of detention for Ukrainian pilots was changed several times, and finally, they were taken to the Kursk pre-trial detention center, where they were kept in a cell with eight other Ukrainian officers. Ivan Pepelyashko says that despite the serious injuries in the pre-trial detention center, most Ukrainians do not receive basic medical care: “The boys are holding on, but most of the wounds have started to fester. The Russians were asked to give at least bandages and zelenka (ed. – brilliant green for disinfection of fresh postoperative and post-traumatic scars), to take care of the hardest. But in vain.”

At the same time, exhausting interrogations continued. Oleksii Chyzh recalls that every interrogation traditionally began with Putin’s propaganda that Lenin had invented Ukraine: “We were forced to record propaganda videos. If they refused, they threatened to stop bandaging our comrades’ wounds. They said that the inflamed parts would be cut off piece by piece. They mentioned our families and the danger they face.” “They repeated that they want to liberate Ukraine from the Nazis. That we will soon live in one country again, and Halychyna will be taken away by Poland,” says Ivan Pepelyashko.

12:34 Security Service of Ukraine

Russia has tried to use criminal activity to shake up the situation in the Odesa region. The SSU neutralized a powerful criminal group that cooperated with the enemy and wanted to join the occupiers if the Russians captured the city.

11:41 Ukrinform

The Chairman of the Senate of the Czech Republic Miloš Vystrčil together with several fellow senators arrived in Kyiv at the invitation of the Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Senate Vice President Jiří Růžička, Senator Pavel Fischer, as well as Polish senators led by Marshal Tomasz Grodzki also arrived by train with Vystrčil, according to media reports.

11:38 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

From the information sources of the aggressor country, it became known that the Council of the Russian Federation proposes to introduce systematic work on teaching Russian to young Ukrainians who were deported from Donetsk and Luhansk regions to Russia.

Children who speak and understand Ukrainian will be forced to learn the aggressor’s language for assimilation and study in Russian schools.

According to Russian media, more than 150,000 Ukrainian children have already been deported to Russia.

The authorities of the occupying country plan to destroy the essence and language of young Ukrainians and erase their memory and all ties with Ukraine.

Such actions violate Article 29 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which stipulates that a child’s education should be aimed at fostering respect for the child’s parents, cultural identity, language, and national values of the child’s country of origin.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation of Human Rights Violations during the Russian Military Invasion of Ukraine and the expert mission set up by the OSCE participating States following the Moscow Mechanism to take into account these violations of the rights of Ukrainian children.

11:32 State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine

A new cyberattack aimed at data theft has been recorded.

Enemy hackers are once again attacking Ukrainians using “hot” military themes. This time – about mobilization.

The government’s computer emergency response team CERT-UA, which operates under the auspices of the State Special Service, warns of the widespread distribution of dangerous XLS documents called “Mobilization Register.xls” among Ukrainian citizens.

Opening the document will eventually launch the malicious program IcedID, also known as BankBot, on your computer. It belongs to the class of “banking Trojans” and, among other things, provides theft of authentication data.

11:28 Ukrainska Pravda citing the Adviser to the Mayor of Matiupol Petro Andriushchenko

In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers are urging civilians to wear a white ribbon, which is a hostile symbol, to make people a “lure” for Ukrainian snipers.

“Danger for residents. The occupiers are urging Mariupol residents to wear a white ribbon as a mark of “our”. In this way, the Russians are once again using the civilian population as “bait” for snipers and soldiers of our army. Because this is the mark used by the Russian army and can be mistaken for the real enemy.

We received information about the introduction by the occupiers of certain passes – permits to move around the city. We specify, but in a heap with special marks “own” all this reminds real segregation and transformation of Mariupol into the real ghetto for Ukrainians as Nazis did.”

11:18 Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security

The Russians are spreading fakes about the American general. AFU StratCom wrote about the Kremlin’s fabrications.

In early April, Russian Telegram channels’ top piece of news spread was that US Army Lt. Gen. Roger Cloutier Jr., Commander of the Allied Land Command, had been taken prisoner in Mariupol.
According to a version imposed by Russian propagandists, he was killed back on 28th March, while according to another one, he was taken as a prisoner. For the sake of persuasiveness, a dubious video involving actors was even shot.
Even though Major Brian Andris, a spokesman for NATO Allied Command, has immediately officially refuted the general’s alleged death and captivity, Russian fake machines are still stubbornly unravelling the story.

11:05 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Russia planned to seize Ukraine under the guise of strategic military exercises.

Documents obtained by Ukraine’s military intelligence testify to the occupiers’ intentions to seize the capital of Ukraine. In particular, the group of Russian troops “Center”, which operated in the Chernihiv and Sumy areas, was tasked with capturing the left bank of Kyiv.

This is stated in the combat order of the commander of the 96th separate reconnaissance brigade, which he received from the headquarters of the 1st Panzer Army of the Western Military District.

The document defines the stages of the offensive and the tasks for the brigade personnel.

11:03 State Bureau of Investigation

The State Bureau of Investigation has exposed the leader of the faction of the pro-Russian OPZZh party of the Mariupol City Council for possible assistance to the aggressor state.

11:02 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

During the ongoing full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the Russian occupiers continue, in violation of international law, to resort to unacceptable actions – illegal and forced movement of Ukrainian citizens, including children, in particular orphans, children deprived of parental care and children, whose parents died as a result of Russia’s military aggression, across the state borders into Russia.

The threat of illegal adoption of Ukrainian children by Russian citizens without following all the necessary procedures set out in Ukrainian law is blatant.

The actions of the Russian occupiers can be qualified as kidnapping and require a decisive reaction of the international community, especially the relevant international organizations.

The full text of the statement is on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

11:01 Security Service of Ukraine

Russian servicemen in intercepted conversations boast of a new “entertainment” – crushing civilians’ cars with tanks

While the official Kremlin denies any allegations of atrocities by the Russian occupiers, they are happy to discuss it in private.

“Now I know that my “tractor” calmly runs over the car,” said the Russian invader, who was standing near Kyiv a few weeks ago.

“And how fast should you go?”, the conversation partner asks. This is the only question that interested him.

“I fucked around 40 km/h. Flew, God forbid! I thought it would not get back on wheels”, the enemy soldier replies. He calls it “sports interest”.

10:30 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 14.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 19900,

tanks ‒ 753,

APV ‒ 1968,

artillery systems – 366,

MLRS – 122,

Anti-aircraft warfare systems – 64,

aircraft – 160,

helicopters – 144,

vehicles – 1437,

boats / cutters – 7,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 134.

Special equipment – 25.

Mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

Strike the occupier! Let’s win together!

9:52 Suspilne TV, City council of Hola Prystan

The Russian occupiers continue to illegally detain residents of the Kherson region

In the Kherson region, the Russian military abducted another resident of Nova Zburiivka, Anatoly Matior. Instead, Serhiy Leonov returned home from Gladkivka.

The Russians keep holding the mayor of Hola Prystan captive. The situation with other abductees has not changed. Their whereabouts are still unknown, the report said.

9:50 State Bureau of Investigation

At the request of the SBI and the Office of the Prosecutor General, the court arrested 154 more objects of movable and immovable property of the Medvedchuk family.

8:30 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

197 children died as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine

In general, more than 548 children have been suffered in Ukraine since February 24, 2022 as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. 197 children died and more than 351 received injuries of varying severity.

These data are not final, as investigation is underway in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

According to the data received by juvenile prosecutors, the most affected children were in Donetsk region – 115, Kyiv region – 105, Kharkiv – 81, Chernihiv – 54, Mykolaiv – 40, Kherson – 38, Luhansk – 36, Zaporizhia – 23, Kyiv city – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15.

6:53 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 06.00 on April 14, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The fiftieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. A russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

A russian enemy continues to build an aviation group near the eastern border of our state, strengthens artillery units, optimizes existing command systems, intelligence and medical support.

There is a constant threat of russian enemy use of missile weapons throughout Ukraine.

The russian occupiers continue to launch systematic missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

The enemy did not take active action in the Volyn and Polissya areas. Certain units of the belarusian Armed Forces continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions. Planned combat training activities are underway.

In the belarusian town of Kholmych, at the checkpoints, the military police of the armed forces of the russian federation and the republic of belarus are checking personal phones. Civilians are informed that Ukrainian units may attack belarus at any time.

In the Siversky direction, the enemy is regrouping units of the Central Military District from the territory of the Bryansk and Kursk regions. After restoring combat capability, it concentrated these units in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions. The russian enemy strengthens border control, conducts engineering equipment for positions, bases and ensures the presence of a small number of personnel, weapons and military equipment.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the russian enemy conducts reconnaissance of probable areas of attack, increases the system of reconnaissance, management and medical support. It continues to partially block the city of Kharkiv and shells the city with artillery, regroups units and replenishes supplies.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the russian enemy fought in the Slavyansk, Popasna, and Kurakhovo districts and stormed the city of Mariupol. It was not successful and the fighting continues.

Strengthening of grouping of the russian enemy around Severodonetsk is carried out by the expense of separate divisions of the 2nd All Arms Army of the Central military district.

Coercive mobilization measures continue in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Thus, in the city of Horlivka, daily tours of private houses and apartment blocks are held.

In addition, it was established that the russian command set a task to mobilize 60-70 thousand people on the territory of the so-called “DPR”. However, these figures were met by only 20 percent.

In the South Buh area, the russian enemy is taking measures to restore combat capability, replenish ammunition, and take measures to engineering equipment positions, exercises fire on units of our troops.
The russian enemy is fighting in the area of Alexandrivka. It is trying to resume the offensive in order to regain lost ground in the Osokorivka area.

On the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the defenders of Ukraine repulsed eight enemy attacks, destroyed a tank, four armored units and six vehicles, as well as one enemy artillery system.

Units of anti-aircraft missile forces of the previous day shot down two enemy fighters.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

4:40 Ukrainska Pravda, The Guardian

Australia has imposed another package of sanctions against Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine – in particular, the sanctions list of Gazprom and Transneft.

A total of 13 companies are blacklisted. In addition to the oil and gas sector, Australia has imposed sanctions on Russia’s largest telecommunications company, Rostelecom, Russia’s largest electricity producer, RusHydro, shipping companies and ports, and the diamond mining company Alrosa.

0:37 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

In an intercepted conversation, a Russian serviceman said that Putin had ordered to level Ukrainian cities to the ground.

Another interception of conversations between enemy servicemen and revelations of the Russian command’s plans for the war in Ukraine has been received.

Thus, the mobilized army of the aggressor, Oleg Karasev, told his wife about the instructions received by the Russian military on further action in Ukraine: “Putin said that if we do not do a f*ck (anything) by May 10, then everything will be leveled”.

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23:34 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Russia is threatening to strike at Kyiv and other cities where they say decision-making centers may be located.

“We see attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian troops on objects on the territory of Russia. If such sabotage continues, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centers, including in Kyiv, from which the Russian army has so far refrained”, the Russian Defense Ministry stated.

The Center for Countering Disinformation urges to keep calm and not be subjected to constant manipulation by the Kremlin.

23:31 Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration

It has been confirmed that the missile cruiser “Moskva” today went exactly where it was sent by our border guards on Snake Island!

Ukrainian “Neptune” missiles guarding the Black Sea caused very serious damage to the Russian ship.

22:29 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Experts of the Center for Counteracting Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine selected fakes, manipulations and misinformation throws that the enemy produced on April 13, 2022.

❌ A spokesman for the Russian president said that “Medvedchuk has never had behind-the-scenes relations with Russia”. At the same time, he stressed that “there would be no military operation in Ukraine if Medvedchuk’s ideas on normalizing relations were taken into account in Kyiv.”

🔻 Warning: this is manipulation

❌ Despite the fact that Ukrainian troops are waging a defensive war, the governor of the Kursk region said that “the Ukrainian side fired on the Russian border checkpoint, and Russian border guards opened fire in response”.

🔻 Warning: this is a manipulation!

❌The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation claims that illegal armed groups of the ORDO “discovered a laboratory near Mariupol for the production of “combat” drugs for Ukrainian nationalists”, but the propagandists spoiled the plan of the RF and added a photo of the Kharkiv school.

🔻 Warning: this is a fake!

21:54 Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine

The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation is preparing draft regulations that will allow the transfer of children of Ukrainian citizens forcibly removed from the temporarily occupied territories to the families of Russian citizens. Including through their adoption.

20:27 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

In Mariupol, the Russian military took hostage members of the crews of the ship “Azburg” under the flag of Dominica and “Lady Augusta” under the flag of Jamaica.

“On April 10, the crew of two ships:” Azburg “- 12 sailors who are citizens of Ukraine, and” Lady Augusta “, whose crew consists of Syrian citizens, their number is unknown, the occupiers captured and took to the temporarily occupied Donetsk”, reported Lyudmila Denisova

18:49 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 13, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The forty-ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The Russian enemy continues to launch the systematic missile and bomb strikes on infrastructure in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
In the Volyn, Polissia, and Siverskyi directions, the Russian enemy units did not take active action. The Russian occupiers are moving individual units in certain directions.
In the Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy has partially blocked Kharkiv. Due to the impossibility of capturing it, the armed forces of the Russian Federation continue to use artillery to destroy the city’s infrastructure.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, according to available information, the Russian enemy is ready for offensive action. It continues to focus its efforts on capturing certain quarters of Mariupol and inflicting airstrikes.
The Russian enemy is trying to carry out assault operations in the areas of Sievierodonetsk, Rubizhne, and Popasna.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy conducts air reconnaissance to identify units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In combat operations in parts of the south-eastern regions of Ukraine, separate units of the 103rd, 109th, 113th, 125th, and 127th Motorized Rifle Regiments operate as part of a group of enemy troops. They were recruited during the forced mobilization of men from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Structurally, these regiments number up to 5 battalions numbering about 300 servicemen in each. Only 5-10 percent of the personnel of these units have combat experience. The regimental command consists of officers of the armed forces of the Russian federation. These groups have significant problems with the provision of weapons, ammunition, and medicine.
The Russian enemy continues illegal actions against the civilian population in the temporarily occupied territories. The Russians are checking documents, personal belongings, and mobile phones. The Russian occupiers also carry out forced inspections of apartments.
In some occupied territories of Kharkiv oblast, the Russian enemy has disrupted the cellular network. The Russian occupiers are exerting an aggressive informational and psychological influence on the population. It is mostly aimed at trying to convince of the futility of the fight against the Russian occupation forces.
We urge citizens not to believe in hostile propaganda and to continue total resistance.
Significantly, the Russian occupying forces continue to suffer losses in the temporarily occupied territories. So, in the period from March 20 to April 12 this year, in the city of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia oblast, about 70 servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were killed while patrolling the area at night.

18:44 Radio Svoboda

The Russian military has committed war crimes by attacking civilians. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe made a report covering the initial period of the Russian Federation’s renewed aggression against Ukraine from February 24 through April 1, 2022.

The report, among other things, describes how Russian troops used the Red Cross emblem, white flags, Ukrainian flags, civilian clothes, and even OSCE symbols to facilitate their military operations.

There is also evidence that Russian forces have used a “systematic scheme” to damage Ukrainian medical facilities.

18:17 Minister of Defence of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov

The Russians are trying to surround the Ukrainian military in the Donbas, but Ukraine will be able to oust the occupiers from the country if the partners provide long-range missiles and other offensive weapons.

17:21 Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko

As of April 13, about 120,000 citizens remain in Mariupol, which has been blocked by Russian invaders.

17:00 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Various experts said that Ukraine wouldn’t hold for more than a week if Russia invaded Ukraine. Not only did we manage to stop the Russian Army – we have pushed them back! But our war is far from over. This was just the first round.

Putin and his army are changing their strategy. They are strengthening their forces to push even harder on Kharkiv and all Donbas region, including Mariupol.

Russia does not plan to stop with Ukraine. Putin’s propaganda machine openly states that Europe is the “next logical target” after Ukraine. So either the West will help Ukraine stop Putin now, or Putin will continue expanding his Russian Empire, killing thousands of women and children in the process. He has already done this in Mariupol, Kharkiv, Bucha, and other cities of Ukraine.

To continue heroically defending the world from Russian aggression, Ukraine needs a specific list of weapons. I appeal to citizens of the whole world to help convey to your governments, presidential administrations, and leaders of your countries the real needs of Ukraine, which will help stop the war.

We urgently need heavy artillery, heavy armored vehicles, air defense systems and aircraft:

– Artillery pieces (caliber 155 mm) and ammo;

– Artillery shells (152 mm caliber). As much as possible;

– Multiple Rocket Launch Systems: “Grad”, “Uragan”, or American M142 HIMARS;

– APCs (armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, etc.);

– Tanks (T-72, either American or German analogs);

– Air defense systems (S-300, BUK, or similar modern western air defense systems);

– Combat aircraft.

We are asking the whole world to unite and help us fight this cruel aggression.

Arm Ukraine Now, so that we can defeat this evil together.

16:40 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi

In the Sumy region, the occupiers killed more than 100 civilians, and the search for the missing continues. Losses due to the destruction of local infrastructure exceeded UAH 10 billion.

“This number is growing every day. Bodies with their hands tied, with traces of torture, and being shot in the head are found. These are terrible things. Many people are missing. Some people are in captivity – a negotiating team is working to release them. Many people whose fate we do not know at all. Shot cars were found on the roads, highways, and in the woods. What happened to the owners of these cars is not known for sure,” said Dmytro Zhyvytskyi.

16:17 Focus

Russia considers US and NATO vehicles transporting weapons to Ukraine as legitimate military objectives. Thus, Russian troops will be able to attack such convoys. This was stated by the Deputy Head of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov.

16:16 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The Minister of Defence of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov being in the destroyed Hostomel addressed foreign partners to provide Ukraine with long-range weapons. Not only the Soviet weapons are needed but also the modern NATO model.

“We need MLRS, tanks, armored vehicles, and 155 mm artillery, not 152 mm, as in the Soviet Union, to get them and finish the case,” Reznikov said.

15:19 European Pravda

The Council of the European Union has approved the allocation of the third tranche of 500 million euros from the European Peace Fund (EPF) for the supply of weapons to Ukraine.

14:43 European Pravda

The presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland arrived in Kyiv.

14:38 State Emergency Service of Ukraine

An interactive map with places of detection of explosive objects and dangerous areas has been launched on the official website of the State Emergency Service (in Ukrainian). The monitoring of the detailed dynamics of demining work by regions is available.

14:09 Ukrainska Pravda citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Oleh Nikolenko

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is disappointed that French President Emmanuel Macron did not dare to call Russia’s crimes in Ukraine genocide, and explained why Russia’s propaganda about the “brotherly nations” is inappropriate.

13:35 Suspilne

In Kharkiv, the shelling of residential areas of the North Saltivka, the 602nd district, and the Zhukovskoho settlement continue. The Russian military is also shelling the area of the Kharkiv Tractor Plant. There was a conflagration; locals report a column of black smoke.

12:41 Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office

According to the investigation, on April 12, 2022, in the village of Pravdyne, Bilozirskyi district, servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation shot dead six men and one woman in a residential building. Intending to cover up the crime, the occupiers blew up the house with the bodies of the executed people.

12:28 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

At least seven people were injured in a missile strike by the Russian occupiers on Cherkaske in the Donetsk region.

The attack took place this morning. Apartment buildings were damaged.

Once again, the Russians reaffirm that they are incapable of waging a fair convention war and resisting the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Their main tactic now is to terrorize and kill the civilian population.

The terrorist state continues to fire on towns and villages along the entire front line. Today Avdiivka and Velyka Novosilka have already come under attack. In Avdiivka, a residential building and city infrastructure facilities were damaged. In Velyka Novosilka, it is known that she hit a private house, the owner of which received a minor concussion.

We carefully record all the crimes of the Russians. For everything done, the enemy will suffer a deserved punishment.

12:04 Ukrinform

The Czech nuclear power plant has given up Russian fuel.

From 2024, nuclear fuel assemblies for the Czech nuclear power plant in Temelin will be supplied by the American electrical company Westinghouse and the French Framatome, which will replace the fuel from TVEL of the state corporation Rosatom.

Ladislav Kříž, the spokesperson for the ČEZ conglomerate of energy companies, told the České noviny about this.

11:33 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Russia is launching a large-scale campaign to mythologize the war in Ukraine in order to make its population believe that the Russian army has heroically fulfilled all its tasks. Propaganda captures non-existent victories at the frontline.

In the foreign and Russian information fields, the Kremlin spreads the topic that the Russian army is “more effective than NATO troops” and “experts noted that the Russian army uses non-standard methods of fighting in Ukraine”.

To reinforce the myth, Russia uses meaningless quotes from US military serviceman Andreas Weber and US military analyst Trent Telenko. In fact, these experts in the information space support the Armed Forces of Ukraine and comment on the actions of the Russian army in negative context.

11:11 State Emergency Service of Ukraine

The army of the Russian occupiers continues to attack the Luhansk region: many houses were destroyed and numerous fires emerged. The military, rescuers, police, and authorities work non-stop.

In the past 24 hours alone, the SES of the region has eliminated more than 10 fires in residential buildings in Kreminna and Lysychansk.
A whole quarter of the residential neighborhood was on fire in Rubizhne. Firefighters rescued 10 civilians there.
In Sievierodonetsk, rescuers extinguished a fire in a building on the territory of a medical institution. To prevent people from receiving aid, the Russian army destroyed a humanitarian center. The building came under massive fire: the walls were destroyed and conflagration emerged in the warehouse.

More than 300 civilians were evacuated from the Luhansk region on April 12. About 90,000 people in the region’s communities remain in bomb shelters. Rescuers continue to deliver food, medicine, and humanitarian kits to them.

11:08 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

Russians continue to terrorize civilians. Over the past 24 hours, the occupying forces have fired approximately 53 artillery and MLRS strikes. 22 civilians, including 3 children, were injured in the shelling. 7 people died. A two-year-old boy who was injured in shelling a few days ago has died in hospital.

10:52 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

Russia’s leadership has ordered the destruction of any evidence of its crimes in Ukraine.

After the international publicity of the genocide of the Ukrainian people in Bucha, Kyiv region, Russian troops began using mobile crematoria in Ukraine.

In particular, 13 mobile crematoria were registered in Mariupol to clean the streets from the bodies of dead civilians. The occupiers are trying to identify all potential witnesses to the atrocities through filtration camps and destroy them.

Ukraine’s military intelligence has repeatedly recorded the use of mobile crematoria in the Chernihiv region. The enemy’s mobile crematorium was recorded in Novoaidar, Luhansk region.

Moreover, the Russian Armed Forces use mobile crematoria to destroy the bodies of Russian servicemen. The purpose of these actions is to hide the real number of soldiers who died during the Russian aggression against Ukraine and avoid payments to the families of the dead.

The actions of the Russian army fall under the definition of “genocide” following the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Russian leadership will continue trying to conceal the facts of war crimes in Ukraine.

10:51 National Bank of Ukraine

The National Bank of Ukraine transferred over UAH 14.96 billion to the military. UAH 3 million is left on the special account.

Funds came from citizens and businesses in Ukraine, as well as from the international community, including the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Finland, France, Australia, the Czech Republic, and many other countries.

To help the Ukrainian Army: https://bank.gov.ua/ua/about/support-the-armed-forces

To help citizens who suffer from the war: https://bank.gov.ua/ua/about/humanitarian-aid-to-ukraine

9:37 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 13.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 19800,

tanks – 739,

APV – 1964,

artillery systems – 358,

MLRS – 115,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 64,

Aircraft – 158,

Helicopters – 143,

vehicles – 1429,

boats / cutters – 7,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 132,

special equipment – 25,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

8:44 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk

There will be no official humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of people on April 13. The occupiers blocked evacuation buses in the Zaporizhzhia region and violated the ceasefire in the Luhansk region.

8:27 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 13, more than 540 children suffered as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine – 191 children were killed and more than 349 received injuries of varying severity. This was reported in the Office of the Prosecutor General.

This information is not conclusive, as investigations are underway in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

According to the data received by juvenile prosecutors, the most children suffered in Donetsk – 113, Kyiv – 102, Kharkiv – 79, Chernihiv – 54, Mykolaiv – 40, Kherson – 38, Luhansk – 36, Zaporizhia – 23, Kyiv city – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr regions – 15.

8:13 Ivan Arefiev, spokesman of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

As a result of artillery shelling with phosphorus ammunition in the village of Novodanylivka, Polohy district, the roof of a residential building on Khrustalkova Street caught fire. Units of the State Emergency Service of Zaporizhzhia region eliminated the consequences. No one was injured in the fire.

7:53 Suspilne citing Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 1,892 deaths and 2,558 injuries to civilians in Ukraine, for a total of 4,550 victims of Russia’s full-scale invasion. This is stated in the daily report of the OHCHR published on April 12.

A total of 1,892 killed are 478 men, 308 women, 30 girls, and 52 boys, as well as 71 children and 953 adults whose sex is yet unknown.
A total of 2,558 injured are 291 men, 219 women, 51 girls, and 51 boys, as well as 144 children and 1,802 adults whose sex is yet unknown).

Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, and missile and airstrikes.

7:34 Oleksandr Kamyshin, Head of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways)

This night, Russian troops fired on a railway station in central Ukraine.

For safety reasons, we changed the route and schedule for 17 passenger trains.

This led to the delay of these trains. The longest delay was 7 years, 23 minutes. But security is a key priority for us now.

None of our passengers and railway workers were injured in the shelling.

6:32 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the #russian_invasion on 06.00 on April 13, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The forty- ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. The russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

russian enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. Actively conducts air reconnaissance.

Until April 26, the russian federation introduced the so-called “yellow level of terrorist threat” in the areas bordering our country and in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea. These measures are probably carried out in order to organize the movement of military equipment, weapons and personnel on the territory of Ukraine.

The occupiers continue to send so-called “volunteers” to Ukraine. Thus, according to available information, a battalion of about 400 people was formed in the Leningrad region. It consists exclusively of servicemen with combat experience. They were sent to Ukraine to reinforce one of the units of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the 8th All-Military Army.

In the Siversky direction, it is possible to maintain separate units in the border areas of Kursk region with Ukraine to conduct demonstration actions in order to restrain our forces.

Partial blockade and artillery shelling of the city of Kharkiv continues in the Slobozhansky direction. In some temporarily occupied territories, the enemy resorted to forming units of the so-called “people’s militia.” Appropriate work carries out to implement these measures.

In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the russian enemy continued to launch air strikes on Mariupol. It is launching an offensive near the Azovstal metallurgical complex and the Seaport.

In the South Buh direction, the enemy is trying to seize individual settlements, but without success.

Over the past 24hrs, the defenders of Ukraine have repulsed six enemy attacks, destroyed two vehicles and three enemy artillery systems in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

The Su-25 russian enemy plane was shot down by a group of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine the day before. The enemy has significantly reduced the use of aircraft due to weather conditions.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

5:28 Ukrainska Pravda referring to Yonhap News

The Republic of Korea plans to provide additional non-lethal assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 2 billion won ($ 1.6 million).

4:42 Suspilne citing Ministry of Economy and FinanceThe French Ministry of Economy and Finance has released a detailed list of frozen Russian assets worth 23.7 billion euros (25.6 billion US dollars), which were blocked after a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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23:25 Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

The number of civilians killed and examined in the Kyiv region as a result of Russian aggression is already more than 720. More than 200 people are still missing, said Andrii Niebytov, head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv region.

22:07 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, disinformation, and manipulations that the enemy spread on April 12, 2022:

Fake: according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, “Ukraine does not want to ensure the safety of foreign ships leaving their ports,” which is necessary to further discredit the Russian army;
Manipulation: Putin called “what is happening in Ukraine a tragedy” in his speech, accused Kyiv of publicly refusing to comply with the Minsk agreements, and said that “Russia cannot be isolated”;
Fake: the Russian Defense Ministry claims that the Ukrainian authorities have instructed “to block Irpin to film pseudo-evidence of Russia’s guilt in the deaths.” At the same time, Russian propagandists said that Russia “has repeatedly presented evidence exposing the fake in the Ukrainian Bucha, methodically and arguably explained that it is a hoax, and the transferred documents about the Bucha will be studied by special services.”

20:52 Ukrainska Pravda

The United States is ready to consider sending more weapon systems to Ukraine that require additional training.

20:47 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

The first suspicion of public calls for the genocide of the Ukrainian people was reported to Russian publicist Armen Gasparyan.

20:03 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 12, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The forty-eighth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

Regrouping and relocation of Russian enemy units to areas of concentration in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions continue. The administrative-police regime was strengthened in order to prevent local residents from recording the movement of weapons and military equipment in the border areas of the Kursk, Bryansk, and Voronezh regions of the Russian Federation, under the guise of a high level of “terrorist threat”.
At the same time, in order to strengthen the group, the Russian enemy is accelerating the training of junior specialists in the eastern military district of the Russian Federation, the coordination of Rosguard units, and their relocation to areas bordering Ukraine.
A Russian command is reviewing the terms of the contracts to legalize participation in hostilities outside Russia and to prevent them from being terminated by the Russian military.
There is a high threat of the Russian enemy to use of missile weapons on military and civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine and the possibility of intensification of the occupation forces to advance to the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
In the Volyn and Polissya areas, the situation has not changed significantly.
In the Siverskyi direction, the planned measures of operational and combat training of units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus are being carried out. Some military units of this country continue to perform tasks to strengthen the Ukrainian-Belarusian section of the state border.
The relocation of units of the 41st Combined Arms Army and the 90th Tank Division of the Central Military District to certain districts of the Belgorod and Voronezh regions is nearing completion.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the partial blockade of the city of Kharkiv continues. At the same time, the Russian enemy continues to use artillery and rocket-propelled grenade launchers to destroy the residential areas of Kharkiv, Dergachi, and Pyatyhatky.
In the area of the city of Izium, the occupiers regrouped units, replenished supplies, and focused on maintaining the pontoon crossing over the Siversky Donets River, and air reconnaissance of the area with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles continues. To strengthen the group, separate units of the 1st Tank Army of the Armed Forces of the Russian federation were moved to the area.
In the Donetsk direction, Russian enemy troops continue the intensive use of aircraft and tactical missile systems.
During the day, the Russian occupiers tried to improve the tactical situation in the areas of Popasna, Stepne, Rubizhne, and Nyzhne. They were unsuccessful.
Engineering units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation are trying to restore the railway bridges in the area of Svatovo. The battles for Mariupol continue.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy is trying to hold the occupied territory, conducted air reconnaissance with unmanned aerial vehicles, and fired at Mykolayiv and Oleksandrivka from multiple rocket launchers.
In the Black and Azov Seas, Russian enemy naval groups continue to carry out tasks to isolate the area of hostilities and reconnaissance.
The defenders of Ukraine inflict losses on the enemy and gradually liberate the occupied territories.

18:42 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Representatives of the French gendarmerie and the medical service of the Armed Forces of the French Republic arrived in Ukraine to help investigate the murders of civilians by the Russian military in the Kyiv region.

The mission arrived with a DNA lab and the necessary equipment to organize a body examination and identification. Experts will work in Ukraine for 15 days.

“Evidence collected by us together with colleagues will be used in national investigations, and can also be transferred to the International Criminal Court,” said Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova.

Earlier it was reported that French experts have arrived in Ukraine to help investigate Russia’s war crimes in the Kyiv region.

18:06 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk

2,671 people have been evacuated so far. The Russian army is blocking convoys of buses that are supposed to take people from Berdiansk, Tokmak, and Enerhodar to Zaporizhzhia.

17:33 Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk

403 bodies of killed and tortured people who died during the occupation of the city by the Russian army were found in Bucha.

16:53 Ukrainska Pravda

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the crimes of the Russian military in Bucha in the Kyiv region the same “fake” that he said were allegations by international organizations about the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

16:35 NV

On April 12, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin met with the self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. After almost three hours of conversation, Lukashenko spoke at a press conference about the war crimes of the Russian army in Bucha, which he considers a “psychological special operation of the British.”

“We discussed this special operation in detail today. The psychological special operation conducted by the British. If you really need addresses, passwords, appearances, car numbers, their brands, which came to Bucha and how they did it… The FSB of Russia can provide these materials,” – Lukashenko said.

15:45 Spokesman for the State Border Guard Service Andrii DemchenkoDuring the full-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation, 870,000 Ukrainians returned to Ukraine.

14:39 Ukrinform citing the commentary of Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova to BBC

About 25 girls and women, aged 14 to 24, were systematically raped by Russian soldiers during the occupation in the basement of a house in Bucha. Nine of them are pregnant. Denisova added that the Russian military told women that they would “rape them to such an extent that they would not want sexual contact with any man so that they would not give birth to Ukrainian children.”

13:54 Ukriform

The European Parliament spoke about the basic principles of assistance to Ukraine for recovery after the war with Russia. Viola von Cramon, a member of the European Parliament from Germany, wrote about this in a statement following her visit on her website:

“Horrible photos and messages cannot give an idea of the shocking reality that exists. The scale of the destruction is unbearable. The stories of people on the ground are horrifying. Russian troops pursued a strategy of complete destruction. Attacks and atrocities were directed against all Ukrainians: women, men, and children. Ukrainians are defending their country and all our democracies from Russia’s aggressive war. The European Union must support Ukraine in building its defence capabilities.”

13:22 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

During the occupation, servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation killed civilians in the village of Shevchenkove, Brovary district, Kyiv region. During a search of the territory in the basement of one of the private households, the bodies of six citizens with gunshot wounds were found. Proceedings have been initiated.

13:16 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The ministry published a video from the village of Yahidne in the Chernihiv region. It is one of the hundreds of Ukrainian villages where Russian non-humans have left death, ruin, and crippled human destinies.

13:15 Office of the President of Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the people and politicians of Lithuania:

“The occupiers are confident of impunity. They are confident that they will be able to make the world forget it. They are confident that Europe will forget it, or that Europe’s claims can simply be brushed aside. They have simple, ordinary logic. Like, everyone needs to trade. Everyone needs oil. Everyone needs gas. Everyone will want to use Russian territory for the transit of their goods. Everyone will want to enjoy the Russian market, the big market. That’s what Moscow thinks. Of course, if everyone in Europe were as principled and respected Europe’s values as you are in Lithuania, and we are proud of you, I am sure that the Russian leadership could not have hoped that they would lose everything.”

12:43 Security Service of Ukraine

The Kremlin planned to create “people’s republics” in the western regions of Ukraine, but the Security Service prevented this. According to one of the members of the group, who cooperated with the investigation, the group began work to overthrow the constitutional order in the summer of 2021.

He was joined by a retired enemy intelligence officer who turned out to be the organiser of the “scheme”. He announced his intention to create a new democracy in Ukraine, and if the current government “does not resign itself”, the group will move to a force scenario.

To seize power, the group had to recruit 500 militants. “It was desirable that these would be people from the former military. Especially those who fought in the anti-terrorist operation,” the man said. Therefore, his task was not only to find 500 “volunteers” but also to provide them with weapons.

The implementation of the plan should coincide with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

11:43 U.S. Embassy in Ukraine

A new mass grave with dozens killed in Buzova near Kyiv: Russia will try to pin blame elsewhere, but facts are facts. Working with Ukraine, we are supporting a multi-national team of prosecutors and war crimes experts to document atrocities. We will hold those responsible to account.

11:39 State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has taken urgent measures to respond to an information security incident related to a targeted attack on Ukraine’s energy facility.

11:17 Security Service of Ukraine

Relatives of the occupiers are waiting for their arrival not with victory, but with looted items. The looting, by the way, is called a “special operation to clean houses.” This is stated in the new telephone conversations of the invaders, which are available to the Security Service.

The recording says that some Russians accept orders from relatives as if they were going to the store.

11:09 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The occupying authorities announced another wave of mobilisation of men under 65 in Luhansk. Militants of the Russian Federation conduct raids on utilities and factories to identify conscripts and forcibly send them to military registration and enlistment offices. The Russians are literally running after men to catch and send to war with Ukraine.

10:38 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Russian special services are planning a series of terrorist attacks to mine and blow up residential buildings, hospitals, and schools in Russian settlements. As well as the launch of the missile and bomb strikes on the city of Belgorod or one of the cities of Crimea.

10:09 Ukrainska Pravda citing Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine Hanna Maliar

Ukraine’s military leadership is currently investigating information about the possible use of chemical weapons by the Russian occupiers in Mariupol.

“As of now, we are verifying this information, trying to understand what it was. We can talk about preliminary data. There are speculations that there may have been phosphorus munitions. The final official information will be later.”

Maliar stressed that the risk of using chemical weapons by Russia exists and it is quite high.

10:05 Head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration Viacheslav Chaus

The Russians left behind many mines in the region. Yesterday, in the village of Krasne, a car drove to the side of the road and an anti-tank mine exploded. One civilian died.

9:53 Head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Military Administration Serhii Hamalii

At night, the enemy attacked the infrastructure facility in the Khmelnytskyi region with a missile.

9:45 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Sievierodonetsk and Hirske are without electricity, water, and gas – all communications destroyed by the Russian army, repair crews inspecting accident sites.

“The night shelling of the outskirts of Severodonetsk and Gorsky, including phosphorus munitions, had catastrophic consequences. Almost all communications were destroyed. People remain without light, water, and gas. Technicians are inspecting the accident sites, but there is a lot of damage. We are trying to restore everything we can. However, with each passing day, the number of repair crews in the region is decreasing. When you see how badly a colleague is injured, who turns on the light or welds the water supply, no matter how brave you are, it is harder to go under the bullets. The shelling by the Russian army is becoming more intense. There is almost no “silence mode”, and when there is, regular communal workers go to the facility,” wrote Haidai.

8:54 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 12.04 were approximately:

personnel ‒ about 19600,

tanks ‒ 732,

APV ‒ 1946,

artillery systems – 349,

MLRS ‒ 111,

anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 63,

aircraft – 157,

helicopters – 140,

vehicles ‒ 1406,

boats / cutters ‒ 7,

fuel tanks ‒ 76,

UAV operational-tactical level ‒ 124.

special equipment ‒ 25.

mobile SRBM system ‒ 4.

Data is being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

8:44 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

The occupiers raided communal facilities to identify men of conscription age and forcibly sent them to military registration and enlistment offices. Due to intimidation and pressure on relatives and families of Ukrainian police officers who were forced to remain in the occupied territories, the Russians are creating units of the so-called “people’s militia.”

8:25 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

In Sievierodonetsk, the occupiers destroyed a humanitarian aid centre that fed 300 people daily.

“Yesterday, April 11, one of the humanitarian aid centres set up in Severodonetsk by volunteers came under massive shelling. Immediately, eight shells hit the premises of the former house-building factory, where the centre was located, and destroyed the walls. As a result, there was a significant fire in the warehouse. Fortunately, there were no casualties,” said Mykola Nadulichnyi, head of the Luhansk Association of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities, who is one of the organisers of a network of humanitarian aid centres in Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.

8:21 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 12, 2022, more than 530 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

186 children were killed and 344 received injuries of varying severity during the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Children suffered the most in Donetsk – 113, Kyiv – 99, Kharkiv – 76, Chernihiv – 54, Mykolaiv – 40, Luhansk – 36, Kherson – 36, Zaporizhzhia – 22, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15 regions.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

7:39 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 12, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The forty-eighth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. The Russian Federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

A Russian enemy is trying to complete the regrouping and relocation of units to areas of concentration in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions of the Russian Federation, as well as the relocation of air and space forces to airfields in the immediate vicinity of Ukraine’s eastern borders.
The Russian occupiers, ignoring the norms of international humanitarian law, continue to use tactics of placing equipment and manpower directly in housing. Thus, in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, the Russian occupiers use the premises of agricultural enterprises, energy and social infrastructure facilities, and the central districts of settlements. Cases of enemy fighting in civilian clothes have been reported.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action. No changes in the position and actions of enemy units in these areas have been recorded.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy completes the redeployment of individual units to the eastern operational zone. Units of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District are being relocated to designated areas in the Belgorod and Voronezh oblasts.
In the Slobozhansky direction, enemy troops continue to partially block the city of Kharkiv. In the area of the city of Izium, the Russian enemy is fighting with separate units of the 1st tank and 20th Guards Combined Arms Army. It conducts air reconnaissance in order to identify the positions of units of Ukrainian troops and determine the routes of their deployment.
In the Donetsk and Tavriia directions, the Russian enemy is fighting and holding certain borders with forces from the Southern Military District. It carries out the movement of additional units to conduct hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.
There are signs of strengthening the air defence system in the areas of Melitopol and Ilovaisk.
It is likely that in the future the enemy will try to take control of the city of Mariupol, capture Popasna, and launch an offensive in the direction of Kurakhove in order to reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk region.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy holds certain boundaries by units of the Southern Military District. It replenishes regular losses in manpower and equipment. It tries to ensure the survival of its own control points. The Russian enemy does not stop trying to gain a foothold on the administrative borders of the Kherson region.
In the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, Russian enemy naval groups continue to perform tasks related to the isolation of the area of hostilities, reconnaissance, and fire support of ground units.
The threat of the enemy’s use of missile weapons remains.
In the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, our soldiers repulsed six enemy attacks and destroyed four tanks, five armoured units, twenty-six vehicles, and eight enemy artillery systems.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has hit seven air targets the previous day: one plane, two helicopters, and four unmanned aerial vehicles.

2:42 Suspilne citing Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan has announced sanctions against 398 Russian citizens and 28 Russian organisations due to a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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23:51 Operational Command “South”

In the Mykolaiv region, looking for desperate ways of sabotage, disguised Russians in 3 civilian cars pretended to be a group of evacuated locals. Approaching our positions undercover, the occupiers tried to attack but received a decent rebuff. Having lost five soldiers, the Russians fled.

22:46 Office of the President of Ukraine

Convoys of buses leaving Zaporizhzhia to evacuate people from Berdiansk, Tokmak, and Enerhodar are being blocked by occupation forces at a checkpoint in Vasylivka. For the third day in a row, the Russian Federation violates agreements to ensure the passage of buses to evacuate people from these cities.

22:31 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, disinformation, and manipulations that the enemy spread on April 11, 2022:

Manipulation: according to one of Russia’s representatives at the UN, Dmitriy Polianskiy, Russia provided the UN with information “about the staged discovery of mass graves in the village of Rakivka near Kyiv to further discredit the Russian army”;
Fake: despite an official statement by the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Eduard Heger, Russian propaganda continues to spread information about the destruction of Slovak S-300 SAMs. At the same time, the enemy plans to launch a campaign to capture Ukrainian soldiers with weapons from the Allies;
Fake: Russia’s Defense Ministry claims that “Ukrainian militants torture civilians in Sloviansk, the reason for which is the pro-Russian views of the people.” The enemy also notes that “the inhabitants of the city are considered unreliable politically.”

22:24 Mariupol City Council

About an hour ago, Russian occupation forces used a poisonous substance of unknown origin against the Ukrainian military and civilians in Mariupol, which was dropped from an enemy UAV.

The victims have respiratory failure and vestibulo-atactic syndrome.

The consequences of using an unknown substance are being clarified.

21:41 Radio Svoboda citing Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

The facts of the rape of children and adults by the Russian military are recorded in the Kyiv region. It is currently impossible to count how many Ukrainians have been raped, but these cases were en masse. Many cases of women becoming pregnant after the rape have already been reported.

“It is impossible to count how many victims there are now because there are people who were brutally killed and could also be victims of violence. Another situation when our women, girls, boys, and their parents are now telling us about the violence that has taken place. But this is only a small part of people who wanted to reveal it to receive psychological support,” Denisova said.

19:23 NV citing EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell

EU foreign ministers have agreed to send a special mission to Ukraine to gather evidence of Russia’s war crimes.

18:57 Energoatom

According to preliminary estimates, the material damage caused to Energoatom exceeds UAH 18.3 billion as a result of the Russian shelling of the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

18:52 European Pravda

The EU Delegation to Ukraine has resumed its work in Kyiv.

18:38 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 11, 2022.

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The forty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

A Russian enemy does not abandon plans to fully capture the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblast.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy continues to partially block the city of Kharkiv, firing from multiple rocket launchers, artillery, and mortars.
In the area of the city of Izium, the Russian occupiers are trying to keep the borders that were captured earlier.
In the Donetsk and Tavriia directions, the Russian enemy tried to storm the city of Sievierodonetsk, but was unsuccessful. During the Popasna attack, it used the Tochka-U tactical missile system. Attempts to advance deep into Ukraine’s defences to improve the tactical situation were unsuccessful.
In the city of Mariupol, the enemy is carrying out assault operations in some areas of the city.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian occupiers are trying to improve the tactical situation and gain a foothold on the administrative borders of the Kherson region. There are many cases of desertion in enemy units.
Russian occupying troops are trying to carry out measures of information and psychological influence on the people of Kherson city and the oblast. To do this, they distribute information bulletins containing distorted information about the course of hostilities, substantiate the so-called “special military operation” of the Russian occupiers, and impose on citizens of Ukraine registration of social benefits, including pensions following norms and rules established in the Russian federation. dissemination of information about Russian telegram channels in which allegedly “reliable” information is disseminated.
Mobile patrols and posts from among the mobilised residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts operate in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia oblast.
To quickly replenish the losses of its troops, the occupation authorities announced another wave of mobilisation of men under 65 in Luhansk. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian federation conduct raids on utilities and factories to identify conscripts and forcibly send them to military registration and enlistment offices.
At the same time, in Alchevsk, with the beginning of hostilities, more than 300 people among the mobilised locals lost their lives. More than 1,200 people have been brought to a hospital in Donetsk since the beginning of the large-scale war.
Among the personnel of the occupation units in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, there is information that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are planning a counteroffensive in the Kherson region with the possibility of success and entry into the Crimean peninsula.

16:16 Ukrainska Pravda citing RIA Novosti

Eduard Basurin, a Russian militant from occupied Donetsk, said that Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol should be blocked at the Azovstal plant and then use chemical weapons against them.

16:11 Spokesman for the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzianyk

Russia has almost completed preparations for the offensive in the Donbas. The main efforts of the enemy are aimed at preparing for the defeat of the Joined Forces, establishing full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and ensuring a stable land corridor with the temporarily occupied Crimea.

15:21 Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

The military of the Russian Federation captured and took away in an unknown direction the crew of the ship SMARTA under the flag of Liberia and the captain’s wife, who was on the board. The ship was on the territory of Mariupol Sea Commercial Port. According to preliminary data, they were taken in the direction of the temporarily occupied Donetsk.

18 people are citizens of Ukraine, one – a citizen of Egypt. There is no connection with the crew and the captain’s wife. Before capturing the sailors, Russian troops fired on the ship.

15:05 European Pravda

The European Commission has added 21 Russian airlines to a list of carriers banned from operating in the 27-nation bloc because they do not meet international safety standards.

“We are living in the context of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine. However, I want to make it crystal-clear that this decision is not another sanction against Russia; it has been taken solely on the basis of technical and safety grounds. We do not mix safety with politics,” the Commissioner for Transport Adina Vălean said.

14:34 Most

The armed forces of the Russian Federation took control of the Kherson plant of the Tavriya Construction Company, which is located on the banks of the Koshova River. The Russian military has also guarded a railway bridge across the Koshova River near the plant.

14:26 Ukrinform

Representatives of Ukrainian tobogganing called on other countries to boycott competitions under the auspices of the International Luge Federation (FIL) due to the participation of Russians.

“Tell your national federations that you will not take part in any of the FIL competitions until the organisation decides to exclude Russia from our sport. Make a loud, clear, and joint appeal,” stated in the letter.

14:07 Ukrainska Pravda

Russian military equipment remains in some proximity to the Ukrainian border, particularly in the Sumy region. This was announced by the spokesman of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Andrii Demchenko.

14:03 Ukrinform

According to SES estimates, demining requires about 300,000 square kilometres of Ukraine. That is almost half of the country’s territory. This was stated at a briefing by the head of the Department of Pyrotechnic Works and Humanitarian Demining of the SES Oleh Bondar.

13:44 Ukrinform

Russia is involved in the plane crash of former President Lech Kaczynski on April 10, 2010. The main cause of the tragedy was an explosion in the left wing of the aircraft caused by external intervention.

This was stated at a press conference on Monday by the head of the subcommittee of the Smolensk disaster investigation, former Minister of National Defence of Poland Antoni Macierewicz, Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“The cause of the crash on April 10, 2010, over Smolensk was an act of illegal influence of the Russian side on the Tu-154M aircraft of the Polish presidential delegation,” said Macierewicz.

13:43 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

During the 45 days of the war in Ukraine, the Russins lost 137 helicopters.

For comparison: during the 1st Chechen war, Russia lost 21 helicopters, during the 2nd Chechen war – 36 helicopters, during the war in Georgia – 3 helicopters, in Syria – 23 helicopters. A total of 83 helicopters in 4 wars.

13:39 Economichna Pravda citing the businessman and ex-minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Dmytro Dubilet

Ukraine calls on partner countries, together with Ukraine, to increase the tax burden on businesses that continue to operate in Russia. According to Yaroslav Zhelezniak, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada’s Tax Committee, work is underway with the PACE, EU, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States, and South Korea.

“The adoption of this legislative initiative should increase financial and reputational pressure on the headquarters of international groups of companies and create an additional incentive to cease operations in Russia and finance the state’s military aggression against Ukraine,” the letter to governments and parliaments said.

13:10 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational Command “North” published a video of the shelled outskirts of Chernihiv.

“According to the Russian occupiers, all this is “military bases” and “training camps of foreign legions.” But they aimed at the homes of ordinary people. Deliberately destroying their property and, most importantly, taking their lives. This is a crime. Military and moral. Genocide of Ukrainians.”

13:09 Nyzhni Sirohozy town council

Today the military of the Russian Federation came to the municipal institution in which council employees are temporarily located as Russians have been occupying the building of the Ukrainian authorities for the third week. The invaders persistently offered cooperation, which all officials of the Nyzhni Sirohozy town council refused.

“We are not sure that in the future we will be able to work within the powers provided by Ukrainian legislation to ensure the livelihood of the community and the proper functioning of critical infrastructure,” stated the town council.

13:01 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

5889 crimes of aggression and war crimes by Russia have been already registered by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

12:59 Ukrinform

In Poland, the Ukrainian community held a communal work (Ukr. – toloka) in gratitude. The Ukrainian community of Koszalin, in the north-western part of Poland, gathered in the center near the town hall, after which went under Ukrainian flags to clean the surrounding parks.

12:59 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

The Centre for Countering Disinformation warns of possible provocations by Russia:

To discredit Ukraine in the international arena, the Russian media report on provocations allegedly prepared by the “Ukrainian government with the support of Western countries”;
Kremlin media say that Ukraine “will organize an action with the mass extermination of civilians in Separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.”

11:57 Deputy of the Kherson regional council Serhii Khlan

Yesterday in Kherson the occupiers damaged the Glory to Ukraine memorial on Perekopska Street. The Russians tore down portraits of the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and the fallen participants of the Russian-Ukrainian war and took down the flag. Boards “Kherson is Ukraine” were removed from the city. “Russians have neither respect for the dead nor any human values,” stated Khlan.

11:54 Office of the President of Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the people and politicians of the Republic of Korea: “There is no hope that Russia will simply stop by itself. There is no hope that reason will prevail and the Russian leadership will simply refuse to continue this war. Russia can only be forced to do so. One can only force it to seek peace.”

12:50 Ukrinform

Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mykhailo Brodskyi stated that Israel is unequivocally on Ukraine’s side in the war with Russia, and there should be no differences of opinion on this position. The ambassador said this in an interview with Radio NV.

11:45 Ukrainska Pravda citing the French Ambassador to Ukraine Etienne de Poncins

A detachment of technical and scientific gendarmes from France has arrived in Ukraine to investigate the war crimes of the Russian occupiers in the Kyiv region.

11:33 Ukrinform citing Ericsson

“In the light of recent events and European Union sanctions, the company will now suspend its affected business with customers in Russia indefinitely,” stated an Ericsson press release.

11:31 European Pravda citing Bild

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Ukraine urgently needed military support to defend itself against Russian attacks.

“One thing is clear: Ukraine needs more military weapons, especially heavy weapons. Now is not the time for excuses,” said Baerbock before the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

11:29 Suspilne

700 civilians were injured as a result of shelling by the Russian army in the Kharkiv region.

This was announced to Suspilne on April 11 by the director of the Regional Department of Health Maksym Khaustov. According to him, all patients are provided with medical care. The most common are mine-explosive injuries due to shelling.

“We have cases when a mine has landed on a spot of humanitarian aid distribution… Unfortunately, kindergartens, schools, and hospitals have been damaged. Actually, every hospital has suffered some damage,” said Khaustov.

11:22 The Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Eduard Heger

“Slovakia categorically denies Russian propaganda, that the S-300 defence system in Ukraine was destroyed. It’s a hoax. Officially confirmed by Ukraine,” stated Heger on Twitter.

10:21 State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine

Russian propaganda spreads fake pro-Russian rallies in temporarily occupied Nova Kakhovka. The State Service of Special Communication refuted this lie.

Russia’s propaganda is trying to create the illusion of support for the occupiers of the population of Ukraine. The Russians have expanded their repertoire from a demonstration of humanitarian aid and interviews with paid actors about the horrors of the Ukrainian government to paid rallies. Unlike the rallies of real residents of the Kherson region, the participants of the so-called pro-Russian rally are few, look confused, and do not show enthusiasm.

11:20 Charitable organisation Caritas Mariupol

According to the latest information, on March 15, there was a direct tank strike on the Caritas office in Mariupol. At that time, people were hiding in the building from the shelling. Seven people died, including two of Caritas’ accounting staff.

10:13 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

On April 10, 2022, at about 1:00 p.m., Russians fired artillery on the town of Zolochiv, Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv region. As a result, several buildings, houses, and cars were damaged. The enterprise, the farm, and the gas station were destroyed. Four people were injured.

10:10 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

During the day, Russian troops inflicted about 66 strikes from artillery, mortars, and MLRS. Saltivka, Piatyhatky, Kholodna Hora, Pisochyn, Zolochiv, Balakliia, and Derhachi were affected. Rescuers extinguished fires in houses, warehouses, and other civilian infrastructure.

As a result of the Russian shelling, 11 civilians were killed, including a 7-year-old child, and 14 wounded. Physicians of the Kharkiv region provide the necessary medical care and fight for the lives of the wounded.

In the region, the activity of enemy reconnaissance aircraft is observed. During the day, the Armed Forces destroyed the enemy unmanned aerial vehicle Orlan.

The active use of delayed mines by the occupiers is recorded. They do not detonate immediately, only when they are triggered by a person’s movement or another activity.

9:59 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba

“Russia knows arms supplies are essential for Ukraine and mobilizes all efforts to undermine them. Moscow prepared a massive info campaign targeting foreign media and politicians. Their troll factory may spam emails and flood comments with disinformation on Ukraine. Don’t fall for it,” reported Kuleba on Twitter.

9:07 Head of Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Vitalii Kim

Last night a missile strike on the territory of a foreign company QTerminals. Earlier it was reported that there was a loud explosion in Mykolaiv.

9:02 Ministry of Defence of United Kingdom

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine on 11 April 2022:

Russian forces prior use of phosphorous munitions in the Donetsk Oblast raises the possibility of their future employment in Mariupol as fighting for the city intensifie;
Russian shelling has continued in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, with Ukrainian forces repulsing several assaults resulting in the destruction of Russian tanks, vehicles, and artillery equipment;
Russia’s continued reliance on unguided bombs decreases their ability to discriminate when targeting and conducting strikes while greatly increasing the risk of further civilian casualties.

8:39 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 11, 2022, more than 525 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

183 children were killed and 342 received injuries of varying severity during the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Children suffered the most in Donetsk – 110, Kyiv – 98, Kharkiv – 76, Chernihiv – 54, Mykolaiv – 40, Luhansk – 35, Zaporizhzhia – 22, Kherson – 29, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15 regions.

These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.

8:29 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 11.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 19500,
tanks ‒ 725,
APV ‒ 1923,
artillery systems – 347,
MLRS – 111 од,
anti-aircraft warfare systems – 55,
aircraft – 154,
helicopters – 137,
vehicles – 1387,
boats / cutters – 7,
fuel tanks – 76,
UAV operational-tactical level – 119.
special equipment – 25.
mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

7:25 Head of Ukrzaliznytsia Oleskandr Kamyshin

Tonight, another railway station in the east of the country came under fire from Russian troops. They continue to aim at the railway infrastructure. There are no victims among the citizens or the railwaymen. 5 locomotives, tracks, and catenary were damaged.

7:16 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The enemy fired on every city in the Luhansk region. There left no non-damaged critical and any other infrastructure in the region. Haidai reports that the Russians have informants who set fire to shops with people and warehouses with food. “Every shelling of the housing stock is a deliberate terrorist attack. The “Russian world” is leaving homeless,” said Haidai.

The Russians stormed the Zolote district, then retreated and began firing on the residential area. A private clinic and school in Sievierodonetsk and a sports facility in Zolote were destroyed.

6:56 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 11, 2022.

The forty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion began. A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

A Russian enemy continues to create an offensive group of troops to act in the Slobozhansky direction. Probably in the coming days, Russian occupiers will try to resume the offensive.
In addition, a Russian enemy continues to train and send personnel, weapons, and equipment to participate in hostilities in Ukraine.
Weapons and military equipment are being prepared at the permanent deployment point of the 60th independent motorized infantry brigade (permanent dislocation point – Monastyryshche, Primorsky Kray) of the 5th Combined Arms Army of Eastern Military District of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Russian Federation. These weapons will likely be moved to the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk oblast. Also, to recover the losses of the battalion tactical group from the 36th independent motorized infantry brigade (Borzya, Transbaikalia region) of the 29th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District, recruits are being recruited from the brigade. The enemy feels a special problem when recruiting drivers and mechanics drivers. The departure of the selected personnel from the point of permanent deployment is scheduled for the second half of April this year.
The armed forces of the Russian federation may carry out provocative actions in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova to accuse Ukraine of aggression against a neighboring state.
It is likely that a Russian enemy, to disrupt the supply of goods to the places of hostilities, will continue to strike at transport infrastructure facilities in Ukraine to destroy or disable them.
Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to perform tasks to strengthen the protection of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions.
In the Slobozhansky direction, separate divisions from a warehouse the 6th Combined Arms Army and Coastal Troops of the Northern Fleet continue to partially blockade the city of Kharkiv, and artillery shelling continues in some areas of the city.
Aerial reconnaissance of the area is underway by the Russian enemy in the Izium direction to identify the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To do this, the enemy uses the UAV “Orlan-10”.
With the help of two battalion tactical groups, the Russian enemy tried to launch an offensive in the directions of the settlements of Dovhenke and Dmytrivka, which was unsuccessful, and the Russian enemy retreated to its former positions.
In the Donetsk direction, a Russian enemy continues to focus on taking control of the settlements of Popasna, Rubizhne, Nyzhne, and Novobahmutivka, as well as establishing full control over the city of Mariupol.
The Russian enemy tried to storm the area of Zolote but was unsuccessful.
In the city of Mariupol, with the support of artillery and aircraft, the Russian occupiers continue to storm the areas of the Azovstal plant and the Seaport.
With the help of independent units, a Russian enemy carried out artillery shelling of the positions of our troops in the areas of the settlements of Vysokopillia, Trudoliubivka, and Marianske.
Over the past 24 hours, the defenders of Ukraine have repulsed four enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and destroyed five tanks, eight armored units, six vehicles, and eight enemy artillery systems.

5:04 Ministry of Defence of United Kingdom

Further evidence of alleged Russian war crimes continues to emerge following the Russian withdrawal from northern Ukraine. This includes the reported discovery of a makeshift grave containing deceased Ukrainian civilians near Burzova. Allegations of sexual violence perpetrated by Russian military personnel persist.

2:01 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro ZhyvytskyiSumy region will receive UAH 250 million from the reserve fund of the state budget. This money will be used to repair utilities and systems to restore heat, gas, water, and electricity, as well as to dismantle damage, repair roofs, replace windows and doors, eliminate potholes on roads, and other urgent needs.

🟡 10.04.2022

23:18 Head of Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Vitalii Kim

There was a loud explosion in Mykolaiv. The security guard is wounded by broken glass. Details of the explosion are being clarified. The forest fire was extinguished. Radiation within the norm.

22:58 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

According to the latest data, 57 people died, including 5 children, and 114 were injured as a result of the Russian missile hitting the Kramatorsk railway station.

21:23 Head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi

About 50 people with mine and explosive injuries, shrapnel wounds, and amputated limbs were evacuated from Lysychansk, Bakhmut, Popasna, Sloviansk, and other cities of Luhansk and Donets region to the Lviv region. All evacuees are provided with the necessary treatment by the region’s medical staff. The oldest patient is 92 years old.

20:52 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

A criminal proceeding has been instituted over an airstrike on the Dnipro International Airport.

According to the investigation, on April 10, 2022, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a targeted rocket attack on the Dnipro International Airport. As a result of an airstrike by the Russian occupiers, guided missiles destroyed the facility and infrastructure near the airport.

According to preliminary data, six rescuers were injured when they came under repeated fire during the dismantling of the debris. The victims were hospitalised.

19:09 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba

If negotiations prevent such massacre as were in Bucha or Kramatorsk, they should be conducted.

“Whatever Russia is planning to do, we have our strategy and this strategy is based on the assumption that, on the confidence that we will win this war and we will liberate our territories. Time is important, but we don’t calculate how much time – how much time it will take,” stated Kuleba.

17:14 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

In the morning, houses in the new part of Sievierodonetsk were on fire. In the afternoon, the Russian army opened fire all over the city. Many windows of residential buildings were broken, where they remained before. Two residential buildings and a private clinic were severely damaged. The social and critical infrastructure of Sievierodonetsk is almost destroyed.

17:05 Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

Russia has begun issuing passports to Ukrainian citizens who have been forcibly deported to various regions of the aggressor country.

By intimidating the most vulnerable categories of people – women, people with disabilities, and pensioners – the aggressor’s authorities received from them almost 14 thousand applications for Russian citizenship and issued 12 thousand passports.

Forced passportization is illegal and is a direct violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

15:30 Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova

According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, Ukrainian law enforcement confirmed the deaths of 1,222 Kyiv region residents at the hands of the Russian occupiers.

15:20 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

The Russians again fired missiles at the region. Three strikes took place on the territory of the airport in the Dnipro. Five SES officers were injured.

14:28 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

The occupiers fired at the Dnipro again. Missiles hit the infrastructure facility and the airport. The number of victims is unknown.

“Both the airport and the infrastructure nearby were destroyed, but missiles do not stop flying,” said Reznichenko.

13:15 First Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Yurii Sobolevskyi

In Kherson, on the square near the Yuvileinyi Cinema and Concert Hall, residents gathered for a peaceful rally, which was dispersed by the Russian military. Dozens of men gathered in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Region, for a pro-Russian rally.

“The occupiers are firing on the Ukrainian rally and dispersing it en masse, and they are honestly guarding the pro-Russian rally on the perimeter. What are you afraid of? Peaceful Ukrainians? They will demolish your “orda”? One must understand and remember that the Kherson region simply does not surrender. Kherson region is Ukraine,” stated Sobolevskyi.

12:03 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba

“Bucha did not happen in one day. For many years, Russian political elites and propaganda have been inciting hatred, dehumanizing Ukrainians, nurturing Russian superiority, and laying ground for these atrocities. I encourage scholars around the globe to research what led to Bucha.”

10:10 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Russia has lost more than 19.3 thousand troops, 152 aircraft, and almost 2,000 armored combat vehicles in Ukraine.

8:37 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

During the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out several missile strikes, one person was injured. “For our region, it was a time of anti-records. Air-raid sirens sounded almost every hour. Unfortunately, there were hits on different districts,” said Reznichenko.

8:22 The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia

Estonia has provided Ukraine with more than 10 tons of aid needed to repair power grids damaged by the fighting.

8:16 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

On Sunday morning, April 10, the Russian army struck at civilian infrastructure in Sievierodonetsk, shelling school and apartment buildings.

6:09 Minister of Internal Affairs Denys MonastyrskyiThe Russians left tripwire mines even in washing machines of houses on previously occupied territories. Invaders were installing them where they lived or stayed overnight, in particular in the apartments of Ukrainian police, rescuers, and military, both at the entrances and near the fences. The Russians found out about the inhabitants when they looted abandoned houses. The explosives were also left in the cars.

🔵09.04.2022

17:27 head of Luhansk regional military administration Serhiy Haiday

In Rubizhne, Luhansk region, Russian forces struck a tank with nitric acid. That’s the second such incident in the past week. Swallowing or breathing in nitric acid can produce poisoning. Exposure to nitric acid can cause irritation to skin, and mucous membrane.

Updated at 18:30: The attack was not a threat to local population. Explosion of the storage tank with four tons of nitric acid sent up a plume toward the Russian troops’ positions near Kudryashivka and Varvarivka.

17:22 deputy head of the Office of the President Andriy Sybiha
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is meeting the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyi during an unannounced visit to Kyiv.

15:47 advisor to the head of the Office of the President Mykhailo Podolyak
Russia earned EUR 37 billion from energy exports in the first 40 days of its invasion of Ukraine. As the EU pays for Russian energy, Russia can buy more missiles and ammunition to fight.

14:50 Ukrainska Pravda
The Council of the European Union ordered Russian and Belarusian trucks that were in the EU as of April 9, to leave their territory by April 16.

14:48 Novoe Vremya
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi met in Kyiv.

13:24 Strategic Communications Department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
In the village of Vilkhivka, Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces discovered a mass grave. Corpses of 10 Russian soldiers were lying in a pit. “The Russians ruined the myth that they do not leave their people behind,” the statement reads.

11:18 Ukrainska Pravda
On the morning of April 9, in Kherson, Russian forces abducted the former head of the Kherson regional administration Andriy Putilov.

08:55 General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
Russia lost 19,100 troops in its war against Ukraine.

08:53 Ukraine’s Parliamentary Commissioner on Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova

Child casualty toll as of April 9: 176 children killed and 324 injured as Russia invaded Ukraine.

08:35 head of Poltava regional administration Dmytro Lunin
The Russian troops conducted a missile strike on an infrastructure facility in Myrhorod. Two people were injured. The strike caused considerable damage to the infrastructure facility.

07:16 advisor to the city mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko
In Mariupol, Russian forces continue to incinerate the corpses of murdered civilians in mobile crematoria to wipe all evidence of atrocities they committed. Bombardments are audible across the city. 01:42 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
A senior U.S. defense official said that Russian forces launched the missile that hit the Kramatorsk train station on April 8 killing more than 50.

🟡08.04.2022

21:12 EU High Representative Josep Borrell

The European Union will provide an additional 500 million euros to Ukraine for the purchase of weapons to combat the Russian invasion.

“We have already allocated 1 billion euros. In a few days we will be able to allocate another 500 million euros,” Borrel said.

19:40 Evropeiska Pravda

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has officially handed over a questionnaire to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which is a necessary step in granting Ukraine EU candidate status

The ceremony took place after talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv

19:13 Vadym Boichenko, mayor of Mariupol

31,000 people were forcibly deported to Russia or the so-called DNR. This is already verified information. Civilians are being sent from Mariupol to a filtration camp located in Novoazovsk. People have been waiting there for weeks. Filtration is very strict – fingerprints are taken, all biometrics. Forced to sign various documents. Particularly harsh on municipal employees or people associated with government agencies.

18:59 Evropeiska Pravda

Czech Republic has supplied Ukraine with tanks, volley fire systems, howitzers and infantry fighting vehicles to combat the Russian invasion

18:43 Vadym Tokar, mayor of Makariv

In Makariv, Kyiv region, 132 shot bodies were found, the settlement is destroyed for 40%.

The dead were found in mass graves. There were also isolated finds of bodies.

18:32 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational information as of 18.00 on 08.04.2022 regarding the Russian invasion

The forty-fourth day of the heroic fight of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion continues.

The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. The enemy is being prepared for an offensive in the east of our country.

The Russian occupiers continue to destroy civilian infrastructure by launching missile and artillery strikes at railway junctions and roads, stations, residential areas and places of evacuation of civilians from areas of hostilities.

In the Donetsk and Tavriia directions, the enemy continues to increase the number of troops.

The occupiers did not abandon attempts at offensive in the direction of Popasna and Severodonetsk. They are not successful.

In the direction of Southern Bug, the enemy fought in the area of the settlement of Oleksandrivka. He tried to carry out fire in order to inflict damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area. He did not reach the goal.

In the Slobozhanshchyna direction, the enemy continued to blockade the city of Kharkiv, shelling residential neighborhoods using artillery, including multiple rocket launchers and large-caliber mortars.

The occupiers completely withdrew their troops from the Sumy region to the Russian Federation.

The enemy has significant problems with the recruitment of military units that suffered significant losses during hostilities in Ukraine. According to available information, more than 80 percent of the personnel of some units involved in the war do not want to take part in further hostilities. The commanders of the occupying forces of the occupiers forbade the release of servicemen whose contracts had expired before the end of the so-called “special military operation”.

In the temporarily occupied territories, the enemy continues to violate international humanitarian law by committing illegal acts against civilians, including looting, theft of vehicles and detention of Ukrainian citizens.

The occupying authorities in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region have received instructions from Russian curators to return to these territories people who left for the Russian Federation in January-February 2022. According to the instructions of local administrations, citizens must return to the settlements at the place of registration / residence after two months of stay in Russia.

Ukraine’s defense forces successfully repel enemy attacks in all directions, inflict losses on the enemy and are ready for any changes in the operational situation.

Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

#stoprussia

18:23 Ukrainska Pravda

According to the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre, 78% of Russians support Vladimir Putin’s actions, and 74% of Russian citizens approve of his decision to attack Ukraine. As of March 31, 89% of respondents said they trusted the Russian army, and 8% did not trust the army. Most Russians believe that an information war is being waged against Russia (90%).

17:01 Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU High Representative Josep Borrel, and Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger visited Bucha, where hundreds of civilians have been killed.

16:51 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

The death toll from the missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station has risen to 50, five of them children. Of the 98 wounded who were taken to medical facilities, 16 were children, 46 were women, and 36 were men. Twelve of them died at the hospital. 38 people died at the station.

16:23 Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko

The Australian Government has provided further support to the Government of Ukraine by gifting 20 Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles, including two ambulance variants, to aid the Government of Ukraine’s response to Russia’s unrelenting and illegal aggression. Australia also provides additional military assistance of $ 20.4 million, including anti-tank weapons and ammunition.

16:21 Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko

Emergency evacuation of people by communal and private vehicles begins in Kramatorsk.

15:59 Ukrainska Pravda citing European Council President Charles Michel

After the Russian attack on Kramatorsk, European Council President Charles Michel said that “action is needed: more sanctions on Russia and more weapons to Ukraine.”

15:54 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

Russian troops are constantly shelling the settlements of the Donetsk region, which are located on the line of demarcation, preparing for escalation and a massive offensive.

15:38 Embassy of Ukraine to the UK

Dozens of activists staged a rally outside the Russian embassy in London, arriving with items they often see among the “trophies” of the Russian military looted from civilians’ homes: sneakers, irons, frying pans, hairdryers, clothes, etc.

15:22 Chernihiv Mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko

About 700 people died during the battle for Chernihiv. Among the dead 70 bodies are unidentified. 40 people are missing. “They can be considered dead because they were seen near buildings and cars destroyed by the Russian occupiers,” stated Atroshenko.

14:05 The Prime Minister of Slovak Republic Eduard Heger

Eduard Heger confirms that Slovakia has provided Ukraine with an air-defence system S-300.

13:36 Commissioner for Human Rights of Ukraine Liudmyla Denisova

Russia is kidnapping Ukrainian children.

Russian media began to publish information about the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation to amend the legislation to organize an accelerated procedure for the adoption of children from Donbas. It is reported that the State Duma is already working on appropriate amendments to the legislation, after which the replacement of the family for the child will be impossible.

According to various sources, more than 121,000 children have already been forcibly deported to the Russian Federation. These are both orphans and those who have parents. It is now known that some of the children were taken by the occupiers from Mariupol to Donetsk and in the direction of Taganrog. Russian invaders say they are orphans, but all orphans, including orphanages, were evacuated from Mariupol and centralized on February 24-25 during the first two days of the war. Ukraine has no information that children who are planned to be adopted have the status of orphans or deprived of parental care.

Russia is repeating the scenario of 2014 when it took Ukrainian children out of the occupied Crimea by the so-called “train of hope” for their adoption. Russia has been expelled from the European Network of Ombudsmen for Children’s Rights (ENOC) for abducting children from the Crimean peninsula.

Now Russians, firing missiles and tanks at the homes of Ukrainian citizens, are killing parents and kidnapping our children in the occupied territories of eastern and southern Ukraine. Such actions of the Russian Federation are a gross violation of Article 7 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides that every child has the right to a name and citizenship, as well as the right to know their parents and the right to care, Article 49 of the Geneva Convention on Civil Protection population during the war, which prohibits forced individual or mass resettlement or deportation. In addition, Article 21 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child provides that adoption in another country may be considered only as an alternative means of caring for a child if the child cannot be placed in foster care or to a family that could provide for her or his upbringing or adoption in the country of origin.

I call on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the UN Human Rights Committee, and the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to intervene to prevent the illegal removal of Ukrainian citizens from Ukraine and their subsequent illegal adoption on the aggressor’s territory.

I ask the Office of the Prosecutor General to investigate the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation of Human Rights Violations during Russia’s Military Invasion of Ukraine and the expert mission set up by the OSCE participating States under the Moscow Mechanism to take into account these violations of Ukrainian children’s rights, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

13:19 Azov Regiment from Mariupol

Tonight, Russian occupation forces fired at the “Captain Belousov” icebreaker carrying civilian crews in the Mariupol trading port. One person was killed and several others were injured.

12:56 Security Service of Ukraine

39 people, including 4 children, were killed in the attack on the Kramatorsk railway station.

12:46 Ukrinform

Interference by the Russian military in the operational work of the Novopskov compressor station could stop gas transit through the Sokhranivka DHW. This was reported by the press service of the LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine.

Several actions were recorded by the occupiers, which include changes in the operation of communication equipment and technological regimes, which may lead to a loss of operational control over the equipment of the compressor station. This will lead to significant risks to the integrity of the gas transmission system, the stability of gas transportation regimes, and as a result – the impossibility of gas transportation through the station, in particular under the transit contract.

Almost a third of transit to Europe from the Sokhranivka gas metering station passes through Novopskov.

11:59 Derhachi City Council

As a result of enemy bombings during the last 24 hours, significant damage was inflicted on the civilian infrastructure and housing estates of the city. The Center of Primary Health Care was destroyed, and the buildings of the inpatient department of Central Hospital were significantly damaged.

11:39 Operational Command “South”

At night, from the territory of the Crimean peninsula, the Russians launched a strike with three guided missiles on the Odesa region. Two buildings were damaged. There are victims; their number is being clarified.

Against the background of missile strikes, the usual practice of Russia is to intensify sabotage and reconnaissance groups, particularly in the border regions, which aim to increase the psychological pressure on the civilian population and spread panic.

The enemy’s naval group continues to conduct reconnaissance, blocking Ukrainian ports and ships.

11:17 Head of Ukrzaliznytsia Oleskandr Kamyshin and the head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in the missile attack on Kramatorsk railway station. Thousands of people were at the station due to the mass evacuation of the Donets region residents to safer areas of Ukraine. This was a deliberate strike on the passenger infrastructure of the railway and the city residents.

11:04 Ministry of Culture and Information Policy

46 countries, members of UNESCO, refused to participate in the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee while it is headed by the Russian Federation. The meeting was scheduled in Kazan, Russia. The parties to the 1972 World Heritage Convention signed an open letter due to Russia’s systematic violation of international humanitarian law in Ukraine.

11:01 Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Bondarenko

Google and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are digitizing the cities destroyed by the Russian army.

“The destruction inflicted on our cities by the Russian occupiers will be available on Google Maps in street view mode. This regime allows you to see the street as if you are walking or driving on it, so everyone can compare what the cities looked like before the war and what the Russian invaders did to them,” said Bondarenko.

Deputy Minister informed that, first of all, rescuers from the State Emergency Service and the National Police permit Google specialists to access already demined and safe areas of liberated cities.

“In this way, we will receive information and reference resources that will help, including the National Police, in recording crimes committed by the occupiers. Users will be able to get acquainted with the first results of our joint work next week when the first panoramic photos of destroyed streets and buildings in Irpin will be published,” Ihor Bondarenko summed up.

10:46 State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine

Armageddon Group is launching a new cyber attack on Ukrainian authorities. This group has repeatedly attacked both state bodies of Ukraine and EU countries.

The government team for responding to computer emergencies of Ukraine CERT-UA, which operates under the State Special Communications Service, warns of receiving new dangerous e-mails with the subject “№1275 from 07.04.2022”.

10:41 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 08.04 were approximately:

personnel – about 19000,

tanks ‒ 700,

APV ‒ 1891,

artillery systems – 333,

MLRS – 108,

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 55,

aircraft – 150,

helicopters – 135,

vehicles – 1361,

boats / cutters – 7,

fuel tanks – 76,

UAV operational-tactical level – 112,

special equipment – 25,

mobile SRBM system – 4.

Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

10:17 Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal

In terms of state budget expenditures, a day of war costs UAH 2 billion (to fight, pay salaries, etc.), in terms of losses – $ 4 billion (the destruction of infrastructure and the loss of economic potential and future GDP). The Prime Minister stated that Ukraine’s losses are, in particular, a 20% reduction in sowing and the inability to realize its export potential.

10:00 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Russian propaganda is increasingly using Kremlin “Western experts” to justify its crimes. The notorious member of the European Parliament Francesca Donato has been actively promoting pro-Russian narratives in Western society for many years.

The deputy voted against anti-Russian sanctions in the European Parliament.
On her Twitter page, Donato launched an active campaign to discredit Ukraine, including Volodymyr Zelensky. The parliamentarian called any evidence of crimes committed by the Russian army a lie.
Meta blocked Donato’s Facebook profile for spreading a tough anti-Ukrainian stance.
Donato has also repeatedly accused the European Union of launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine using the Kremlin’s “provoking Putin” thesis.

9:52 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

Regarding the situation in the Kharkiv region as of April 8:

Over the past day, Russian occupation forces have fired about 48 times from artillery, mortars, tanks, and MLRS on the Saltivka, Pyatykhatka, Oleksiyivka districts, the city center, and Derhachi. As of now, there are 15 victims in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv district;
As a result of the shelling of the occupiers, the gas pipeline was significantly damaged at night. Emergency crews are working on the spot and trying to eliminate the consequences;
Fighting continues in the Izium direction. The evacuation continues, in particular from Barvinkove and Lozova.

9:36 Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Maliar

“The consequences of Russian barbarism can only be compared to the Middle Ages,” stated Maliar.

Main theses:

The Russian Federation is destroying the entire social structure (hundreds of hospitals, kindergartens, schools), raping and brutally killing civilians;
They commit their atrocities, for example, against the mother in front of the child, or against the child in front of the mother;
The cities that were liberated in the Kyiv region are presented by Russia as a voluntary retreat. It is not true;
When we entered the settlements that were temporarily occupied by the Russians, we saw the consequences of barbarism, which can only be compared to the Middle Ages;
In addition to murdered people, we find mass murdered animals;
Blocking humanitarian routes is also part of Russia’s terror policy;
The worst is 167 killed and 279 injured children.

9:26 Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Oleksand Starukh

The Russians confiscated a convoy of buses that brought humanitarian aid to Melitopol and had to return to Zaporizhzhia with the evacuees.

9:11 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

The Russians continue to fire on civilians along the entire front line. On April 7, they conducted attacks by a helicopter at Vuhledar and a missile at Sloviansk. As a result of the shelling:

– one injured and more than ten damaged houses in Sloviansk;

– one injured and many destructions in Vuhledar;

– four injured and two damaged houses in the Marinka community.

9:00 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Under the procedural guidance of the Izium District Prosecutor’s Office of the Kharkiv Region, a pre-trial investigation has been launched into violations of the laws and customs of war combined with premeditated murder (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

According to the investigation, the Russian military tortured and set on fire three residents during the occupation of the village of Husarivka, Izium district. To destroy evidence of their crimes, the Russian military covered bodies with car tires and set them on fire.

After the liberation of the village from Russian invaders on April 7, 2022, the remains of the dead were found in the basement of one of the houses.

8:28 Suspilne citing the head of the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management Oleksandr Syrota

After Ukraine regained control of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, it was found out that the Russians had destroyed the plant’s archives, which had been accumulating for decades. Oleksandr Syrota wrote about this on Facebook.

8:18 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 8, 2022, more than 475 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

169 children were killed and 306 received injuries of varying severity during the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Children suffered the most in Kyiv – 88, Donetsk – 81, Kharkiv – 75, Chernihiv – 50, Mykolaiv – 40, Luhansk – 35, Zaporizhzhia – 22, Kherson – 29, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15 regions.

These data are not conclusive, as it is not possible to inspect the sites of shelling in areas of active hostilities and the temporarily occupied territories.

7:54 Suspilne citing Politico

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is delaying a final decision over whether to give Ukraine high-end tanks for its battle against Russia, despite pressure from several other top officials, according to four people familiar with the deliberations.

6:50 European Pravda

The EU has proposed another 500 million euros for Ukraine’s military support. This was written on Twitter by the President of the European Council Charles Michel.

“Thanks and support to Josep Borrel for your proposal to top up the European Peace Facility with a further €500M. Once swiftly approved this will bring to 1,5 billion the EU support already provided this for military equipment for Ukraine.

6:42 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

At night three evacuation trains with residents of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions went to the west – the track was repaired.

All three trains with IDPs, which remained at the Kramatorsk railway station as a result of an enemy attack on the overpass near Barvinkove station, overcame the section promptly restored by the railways around midnight. They are already heading to the western regions of Ukraine. The evacuation continues.

Earlier it was reported that the enemy struck an airstrike on the only controlled overpass of the Donetsk railway.

6:41 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 8, 2022.

The forty-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues.

The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue their armed aggression against Ukraine. The enemy is being prepared for the offensive in eastern Ukraine.
The main efforts of the Russian invaders continue to focus on the capture of Mariupol, the offensive in the area of the city of Izium, and breakthroughs in the defence of the Joint Forces in the Donetsk direction. In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy is trying to prevent the advance of our troops.
The Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus carry out operational and combat training activities at training grounds throughout the country. Up to four battalion tactical groups have been involved to carry out tasks to strengthen the protection of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
There is still a possibility of missiles and airstrikes from the territory of the Republic of Belarus on military and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
According to the available information, the so-called “volunteers” among Belarusians are being recruited from the territory of the Republic of Belarus to create new units for a private military company. The information is being clarified.
The enemy completes the restoration of combat capability of units of the Central Military District in the Bryansk and Kursk regions.
Separate units of the 6th, 20th All-Army, 1st Tank Army, Coastal Troops of the Baltic, and Northern Fleets carry out operational equipment of the territory. The main focus is on the rehabilitation of railway sections from Kupyansk to Kharkiv, Izium, and Svatove. For this purpose, units of the railway troops of the 38th separate railway brigade of the Western Military District from Yaroslavl were involved.
In the Kharkiv direction, the Russian enemy continues to blockade the city of Kharkiv. To prevent the advance of our troops, the invaders put up minefields.
In the temporarily occupied city of Izium, representatives of the so-called “DPR” perform the functions of the local “police” and carry out illegal checks of documents, searches of persons, and premises of the local population.
Units of the occupying forces are concentrating their efforts on taking control of the settlements of Popasna and Rubizhne and establishing control over the city of Mariupol. Assault operations continue in most areas.
The enemy continues to launch airstrikes and shell civilian infrastructure, including the use of multiple rocket launchers. Such activities have been recorded in the districts of Kreminna, Sievierodonetsk, Novotoshkivske, Popasna, Novozvanivka, Sukha Balka, Novoselivka Druha, Stepne, Troitske, Novobahmutivka, Marinka and Solodke.
In the areas of the settlements of Rubizhne, Popasna, Nyzhne, Novotoshkivske, Zolote, and Borivske, the occupiers tried to carry out assault operations but were unsuccessful.
In the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, seven enemy attacks were repulsed in the past 24 hours, four tanks, two artillery systems, ten armoured units, and eleven enemy vehicles were destroyed.
Air Force aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued to strike at places where Russian enemy troops congregated.

3:35 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, Head of the Sumy Regional State Administration

People tortured by enemies continue to be found in the Okhtyrka district. One of the men had his face and hands tied, and torn wounds on his right leg. The identity of the deceased has not been established yet. The prosecutor’s office is dealing with these cases.

2:18 Mayor of Bucha Anatolii Fedoruk 163 of the 320 civilians killed in Bucha were identified.

🔵07.04.2022

22:14 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Experts of the Center for Counteracting Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine collected a selection of fakes, manipulations and misinformation throws that the enemy produced on April 7, 2022.

❌Despite the decision to suspend Russia’s participation in the UN Human Rights Council, Russia has announced its own decision to terminate its powers in this body.

🔻 Warning: this is a manipulation!

❌ The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation made a cynical statement that “in the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian militants fired at the cars of civilians who were trying to leave for Russia on their own.”

🔻 Warning: this is a fake!

❌ Russia is trying to shift the blame for the slowdown in negotiations to Ukraine. Thus, a member of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Andrei Klimov said that “Kyiv’s withdrawal from its own proposals in the (Istanbul) talks, which were positively received by Moscow, actually block the negotiation process. At the same time, the requirements of the Russian Federation remain unchanged. “

🔻 Warning: this is a manipulation!

21:10 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics

The team of the Latvian Embassy in Ukraine has returned to Kyiv, the ambassador will join them later

20:28 Dmitry Peskov, Russian president’s press secretary in an interview with Sky News

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president, said Russia had suffered significant losses in the war with Ukraine, but did not give an exact figure.

He named a new reason for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – the prevention of World War III.

Peskov also expressed hope that the war in Ukraine will end in the coming days or in the near future because Russia will achieve its goals, or through negotiations.

20:16 Ivan Fedorov, mayor of Melitopol

More than 100 people have already been abducted by Russian occupiers and collaborators in Melitopol.

They are also trying to resume education in kindergartens without achieving the same from schools.

“I am sure that this will not work, kindergarten principals and teachers will not want to be collaborators,” Fedorov said.

19:01 Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railway)

The enemy struck an air strike on the only controlled overpass of the Donetsk railway.

The overpass near Barvinkove station is the only Ukrainian-controlled railway exit from cities of Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Lyman. Road of life for tens of thousands of our citizens now.

Three evacuation trains were temporarily blocked in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

Addition 20:08 the chairman of the Luhansk OVA Sergey Gaidai

Evacuation from the East is blocked. We hope that the railway workers will cope with the damage.

18:52 Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

The UN General Assembly has suspended Russia’s membership in the Human Rights Council. The resolution was supported by 93 countries, 24 opposed and 58 abstained.

“Russia’s rights of membership in the UN Human Rights Council has just been suspended. War criminals have no place in UN bodies aimed at protecting human rights. Grateful to all member states which supported the relevant UNGA resolution and chose the right side of history,” Kuleba stated.

18:35 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 7, 2022.

The forty-third day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues.

A Russian enemy continues to prepare for the offensive in eastern Ukraine. The Russian occupiers are regrouping troops to complete the formation of the offensive group. A Russian enemy takes measures to increase the aviation component and C2 system and continues to conduct reconnaissance.
A Russian enemy’s main efforts are focused on capturing the city of Mariupol, conducting an offensive near the city of Izium, and trying to break through the defenses in the Donetsk direction.
In the South Buh area, the Russian enemy is trying to prevent the further advance of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and to improve the tactical position of Russian units in some areas.
In the Volyn direction, there is a possibility of Russian enemy missile strikes on military and civilian infrastructure from the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
In the Polissia direction, the enemy did not take active action, and the Russian occupying forces deployed to the territory of the Republic of Belarus are carrying out demonstration actions to prevent the transfer of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from this area to others.
Separate units of the Russian occupiers from the Eastern Military District and the airborne troops of the Russian Armed Forces, which are recovering and regrouping on the territory of Belarus after leaving Ukraine, are likely to be sent to strengthen enemy troops in Slobozhansky direction.
In the Siverskyi direction, the Russian enemy completes the regrouping and restoration of combat capability of units of the Central Military District in certain areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions. The possibility of further sending these units to other operational areas, including for combat operations in the Donetsk and Luhansk areas, is not ruled out.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy is taking active steps to increase control and communication in the interests of the offensive group.
In the Kharkiv oblast, up to five battalion tactical groups of the Russian enemy continue to blockade the city and fire at it from multiple rocket launchers, artillery, and mortars.
The Russian occupiers held the city of Izyum, trying to continue the offensive in the direction of Slоvyansk and Barvinkove.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the enemy continues to carry out fire and assault operations, inflicts rocket and bomb strikes, and conducts artillery fire on the civilian infrastructure of settlements. The port of Berdyansk is used by the Russian occupiers to transfer weapons, military equipment, and personnel.
The Russian enemy also intensified efforts in the Severodonetsk direction. A Russian enemy is trying to continue the offensive in the areas of Donetsk, Novotoshkivske, and Popasna.
The Russian enemy also tried to launch an offensive in the areas of Marinka, Borivske, and Solodke, where attempts to attack were unsuccessful.
Likely, the Russian occupiers will soon try to break through the defence of our troops in the Sievierodonetsk, Avdiivka, and Kurakhove districts.
The Russian enemy fired artillery in the South Buh direction and used army aircraft in some areas. A Russian enemy is trying to continue the offensive in the direction of the settlement of Oleksandrivka.
Russian naval groups in the Black and Azov Seas continue to carry out missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine, isolate the area of hostilities, and conduct reconnaissance.
The Russian occupying power continues to restrict the rights of Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied territories. Thus, in the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian occupiers banned men from leaving for the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. There is also a growing shortage of necessities, especially food, which could further complicate the humanitarian situation in the region occupied by the Russian occupiers.
Ukraine’s Defence Forces, inflicting losses, continue to push back the enemy and liberate the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian occupiers in some areas.

18:15 European Pravda

Lithuanian Ambassador Valdemaras Sarapinas returned to Kyiv on April 7 after working in Lviv for more than a month and briefly on the Ukrainian-Polish border.

17:38 European Pravda

The Estonian government has agreed to stop importing Russian gas into the country by the end of 2022 and to compensate for these supplies through a leased LNG terminal.

Earlier, Estonia and Finland agreed to jointly lease a floating LNG terminal, which can be moored in both countries. It is to be delivered to the Gulf of Finland in the autumn.

17:15 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba

The battle between Ukraine and Russia over Donbas will resemble World War II. It is all-important now that the allies do not tell Ukraine that they are still considering and that they need to follow all the procedures, and that multiple problems have to be solved before they can make a decision.

16:36 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba

NATO will not send weapons to Ukraine, but there will be supplies from individual allies.

“I am cautiously optimistic about supplies from some allies, but I am not optimistic that NATO will supply Ukraine with the weapons it needs in the foreseeable future. That may change, but I do not see it yet,” Kuleba said.

15:52 Radio Svoboda

The G7 condemns Russia’s atrocities in Bucha near Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine.

“Haunting images of civilian deaths, victims of torture, and apparent executions, as well as reports of sexual violence and destruction of civilian infrastructure show the true face of Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine and its people. The massacres in the town of Bucha and other Ukrainian towns will be inscribed in the list of atrocities and severe violations of international law, including international humanitarian law and human rights, committed by the aggressor on Ukrainian soil,” said in a joint statement following a meeting at NATO.

14:26 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Main theses of the press conference of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Maliar took place:

There can be no compromise with evil. Do not bury your head in the sand. Today, Russia’s third president, Medvedev, says their plans are Eurasia, from Vladivostok to Lisbon. So I want to tell you, what this means – there will be Bucha from Vladivostok to Lisbon.
Hitler had SS troops to destroy civilians and genocide. The entire Putin army today is the Waffen-SS.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the official information resources of the Russian Federation today are already talking not just about the “denazification” of Ukrainians. They directly speak about the need to destroy all those who identify themselves as Ukrainians.
We are liberating our territories and this is good news. But they end: when we go to where the occupiers were, we understand the apocalyptic scale of the civilian casualties. Tortured peaceful people. Mass graves. Packages for corpses. They planned it from the beginning.
Today’s Russia is a catastrophe of civilization. If the world does not fix this, you will have your “February 24, 2022”.
The rating of support for Putin among Russians is growing. Russian society is infected with Nazism and is fully responsible for these crimes.
We withstood the first phase of the war. Ahead, perhaps, is an even more difficult stage of our struggle. Putin can only be stopped by Russia’s military defeat.
Ukrainians are ready to die for their land. We ask the world: give us weapons to live for our land.
The adage “If you don’t want to feed your army, you will feed someone else’s” reads today: “If you do not help Ukraine fight against Russia today, you will fight against Russia tomorrow!”
Ukraine will survive, and Europe and the World will survive. The recipe for common survival is weapons and military assistance.

14:13 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

There are no undamaged hospitals left in the Luhansk region.

14:00 Commissioner for Human Rights of Ukraine Liudmyla Denisova

The new day brings more reports from the liberated territories about the atrocities of Russian militants during the occupation. In Hostomel, police found 11 civilians killed in a graveyard on Sviatopokrovska Street. Russian snipers “trained” on them, shooting people, after which the dead were put in the garage. In the Chernihiv region, in the villages of Holinka, Haivoron, Tereshykha, and Rubanka, facts were revealed that Russians had shot people and compelled children to dig trenches. Locals in the Chernihiv region under occupation were forced to drink technical water and bake cakes from animal feed.

On the outskirts of Mariupol, which is temporarily controlled by Russian militants, the occupiers began forced mobilisation of men.

13:47 Ukrinform

Russian aggressors seized medicines that volunteers tried to bring to the temporarily occupied Kherson.

13:39 Ukrinform citing The Guardian

Greece will request the investigation of war crimes in Mariupol from the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday upon his arrival at the Summit of NATO Foreign Ministers.

13:36 Office of the Presinet of Ukraine

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the people and politicians of Greece. “I urge you to use the influence of Greece and opportunities as a member of the European Union to organize the rescue of Mariupol. I call for more to be done so that Russia can begin to seek peace and even give up its dreams of conquering Ukraine.”

13:23 Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Mustafa Nayyem

The Ministry of Infrastructure has received confirmation that Slovakia has revoked all types of international transport permits for Ukrainian carriers.

13:04 Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine together with Google experts launched a project to digitize the consequences of the Russian invasion of the destroyed cities of Ukraine.

The purpose of the project is to record the destruction caused by the Russian occupiers in Ukrainian cities and villages. The liberated city of Irpin is a start point for the project. The information will be posted on Google Maps and will be available to the general public. The whole world must see what our cities looked like before and what the aggressor did to them.

13:00 Ukrainska Pravda citing Der Spiegel with infromation from BND and DW

Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has intercepted talks on radio communications between the Russian military, in which the occupiers are discussing the massacre of civilians in Bucha.

11:48 Ukrainska Pravda citing BBC

Following the announcement that the occupiers had sent goods looted in Ukraine, the Russian delivery operator turned off the video broadcast from its offices on the border with Ukraine.

11:45 Ukrainska Pravda

During an online conference, the mayor of Irpin, Oleksandr Markushyn, said that the Russian occupiers staged real atrocities in the city – they shot people and then run over the bodies with tanks. After the liberation of Irpen, the remains had to be collected with shovels.

11:20 Interfax

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on April 8, said the press secretary of President Serhii Nykyforov.

11:04 Security Service of Ukraine

In one of the telephone conversations intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine, a woman living in the occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region communicates with her relative – a fighter of the so-called “DNR”, whose unit is now stationed in the Kherson region. She explains to him that she used to have a better idea of the “liberators” and believed in the “Banderovites”. However, now the woman sees what Russian soldiers are doing in the occupied territories. “We give them sausages, and they go into the house, rape children, and shoot in the legs… What should I do? They walk around the village, ask where the young girls live, and offer diesel fuel for them,” the woman cries. The woman is afraid for her 14- and 10-year-old granddaughters.

11:01 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

The Prosecutor General’s Office seized 17,800 railway cars belonging to enterprises of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.

10:08 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 07.04 were approximately:

personnel ‒ about 18900,
tanks ‒ 698,
APV ‒ 1891,
artillery systems – 332,
MLRS ‒ 108,
anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 55,
aircraft – 150,
helicopters – 135,
vehicles ‒ 1358,
boats / cutters ‒ 7,
fuel tanks ‒ 76,
UAV operational-tactical level ‒ 111,
special equipment ‒ 25,
mobile SRBM system ‒ 4.

Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

10:03 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Russia is spreading fakes through experts with a “neutral position.” To do so, the Kremlin uses the American scientist Gordon M. Hahn. The danger is that most readers see the scholar as an expert who provides unbiased information because he does not openly support either Western countries or Russia.

Pretending a position “against all,” Hahn resorted to manipulation and briefly said that “the world must make concessions to Putin,” and “Ukrainian Nazis began to drop their masks under the pressure of war.”

9:48 Mariupol City Council

The occupiers forcibly deported Mariupol residents to the territory of the Russian Federation and the so-called “DNR”. The staff and patients of the Matsuk City Hospital №4 were forcibly taken out from Mariupol to the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. It is known that armed people came to the medical facility and ultimately announced that doctors and patients should get out and get on the occupiers’ vehicles. Exhausted and frightened people were forced to carry out the orders of Russian terrorists. What will happen to them is unknown. Earlier, there were confirmed cases when people from Mariupol were sent to depressed regions of Russia.

8:56 Ukrainska Pravda

There have been many explosions in the last 24 hours, including from BM-21 “Gead”, in the Kherson region. There are reports of injuried and dead, as well as destroyed homes and schools. People are trying to leave the occupied villages on their own. The region needs humanitarian aid and evacuation of people, in particular, Beryslav district and villages on the border with the Mykolaiv region.

8:36 Kakhovka city territorial community

The mayor of Kakhovka, Vitalii Nemerets, has left the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region for controlled Ukraine.

“My family members’ lives and my life were in real danger because I did not want to collaborate with the Russian occupiers. I believe that the dead mayor or mayor somewhere in the basement does not benefit the community,” Nemerets wrote.

8:29 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 7, 2022, more than 464 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

167 children were killed and 297 received injuries of varying severity during the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Children suffered the most in Kyiv – 86, Donetsk – 81, Kharkiv – 73, Chernihiv – 50, Mykolaiv – 39, Luhansk – 32, Zaporizhzhia – 22, Kherson – 29, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15 regions.

These data are not conclusive, as it is not possible to inspect the sites of shelling in areas of active hostilities and the temporarily occupied territories.

7:41 European Pravda citing Politico

The US Senate unanimously passed major legislation to revive a World War II-era Lend-Lease program allowing President Joe Biden to more efficiently send weapons and other supplies to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion.

7:19 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians could not enter Novotoshkivske, but fired on a hospital in Sievierodonetsk and houses in Lysychansk.

7:15 Suspilne citing CNN

“The age of engagement with Russia is over,” UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said at a dinner with NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on Wednesday, according to a statement from UK Foreign Office released ahead of the dinner.

The Act, signed in 1997, rules that “NATO and Russia do not consider one another adversaries”, according to the original document.

“The age of engagement with Russia is over. We need a new approach to security in Europe based on resilience, defense, and deterrence”, Truss said.

According to the statement sent to CNN, Truss underlined that NATO cannot allow “security vacuums” at the alliance’s Eastern borders and should “rethink” support for countries “caught in the web of Russian influence” such as Georgia, Moldova, Sweden, and Finland.

The foreign secretary also urged her partners to toughen sanctions and arm Ukraine “quickly and decisively … to ensure Putin fails.”

6:40 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 7, 2022

The forty-third day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion began.

The Russian Federation continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against our state. The main efforts of the occupiers are focused on preparations for the offensive operation in eastern Ukraine, which aims to establish control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The enemy continues active operations in Slobozhanskyi, Donetsk, Pivdennobuzkyi, and Tavriia directions.
In the Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy continues to blockade the city of Kharkiv and carry out artillery shelling.
In the Donetsk and Tavriia directions, the enemy continues artillery shelling of Popasna. The goal is to set fire to units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and resume the offensive on Rubizhne, Nyzhnie, and Novobakhmutivka. The occupiers also tried unsuccessfully to break through the defenses of our troops in the area of the settlement of Novotoshkivske.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy is defending previously occupied borders, taking measures to restore the combat capability of its units. Continues to carry out strict filtration measures in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region.
Some of the withdrawn Russian units are located in tent camps in several regions of the Russian Federation bordering Ukraine. The servicemen refuse to take part in further hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. The moral and psychological condition of this personnel is low and tends to deteriorate.
The Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continues to look for ways to solve the problem of replenishing its units with human resources. Russia’s military commissariats have stepped up work with conscripts who have been discharged from military service since 2012 and have military accounting specialties of a driver, mechanic-driver, scout, and junior commanders. The official reason for the call to the military registration and enlistment offices is to hold a training meeting on the specified military specialties for 3 months. Also, on the territory of the so-called Transnistrian-Moldavian Republic, appropriate propaganda work is being carried out with the population who has Russian citizenship.
The occupiers continue to use violence against civilians in the temporarily occupied territories. The population of Mariupol is being forcibly deported to the temporarily occupied districts of the Donetsk region.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has hit three air targets the previous day: a cruise missile, an UAV, and a fighter jet. The Air Force continued to launch missile and bomb strikes on the occupying forces.

1:04 Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine On April 6, anti-aircraft missile forces destroyed three air targets: a cruise missile, an UAV, and one aircraft. According to preliminary information, it was a Su-34 fighter-bomber. He was shot down during an enemy airstrike in the eastern direction.

🟡06.04.2022

23:22 Energoatom

The occupiers in Enerhodar began to create fake authorities. Initially, 34 members of the so-called “Enerhodar Public Council for Self-Organization” gathered and elected collaborator as the head of the so-called “city administration.” After that, he single-handedly “dismissed” the legally elected incumbent mayor Dmytro Orlov, and at the same time all the heads and members of the executive bodies of the city authorities. These decisions have no legal force or legal meaning.

22:28 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, disinformation, and manipulations that the enemy spread on April 6, 2022:

Disinformation: the Russian Defense Ministry warned that “Ukrainian troops are preparing a provocation with poisonous substances in the Kharkiv region, therefore, the Security Service of Ukraine mined the chlorine storage to destroy it and accuse the Russian Federation of explosion”;
Manipulation: after the Russian occupiers’ defeat in northern Ukraine, the propaganda media returned to creating content that “Western countries supply Ukraine with low-quality and obsolete weapons”;
Fake: even though the 503rd Marine Corps Battalion denied the claims of Russian propagandists about the capture of Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol, the enemy continues to produce destructive content in this regard.

21:26 Evropeiska Pravda with reference to Ceske Noviny

EU ambassadors at a meeting on Wednesday failed to decide on the fifth package of sanctions against Russia, proposed by the European Commission on Tuesday.

Some countries have called for clarification on the proposed embargo on Russian coal imports and a ban on mooring Russian ships in EU ports.

The meeting of ambassadors will continue on Thursday.

21:15 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with the Turkish channel Habertürk

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is convinced that humanitarian goods from the Ukrainian side are not allowed to Mariupol, as the Russian side fears that “the world will see what is happening there.”

Negotiations are underway on Turkey’s mediating role in evacuating the wounded from Mariupol on ships.

20:48 Petro Andryushchenko, advisor to the mayor of Mariupol

The Russians began the forced mobilization of men in the part of Mariupol under their control.

According to Andryushchenko, the mobilized are planned to be used as “cannon fodder” in street fights in the city.

19:13 Radio Liberty

Britain has frozen the assets of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank.

In addition, eight other Russian oligarchs have come under British sanctions, including Gazprombank Chairman Andrei Akimov and Novatek co-owner Leonid Michelson. The sanctions package also bans investment in Russia.

18:58 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational information as of 18.00 on 06.04.2022 regarding the Russian invasion

The forty-second day of the heroic opposition of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues.

The enemy continues to prepare for an offensive operation in eastern Ukraine in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Russian occupiers are regrouping troops and conducting reconnaissance, trying to improve the tactical position of individual units in the South Bug area and gain a foothold on the administrative borders of the Kherson region.
The main focus of the enemy’s efforts is to conduct offensive operations in order to break through the defenses of the Joint Forces in the Donetsk direction. It is also trying to take full control of the city of Mariupol.
The regrouping of troops and the restoration of combat capability of the Central Military District units deployed to the Bryansk and Kursk oblasts are nearing completion.
Training and relocation of units of the occupying forces of the armed forces of the Russian Federation to the territory of Ukraine is underway. The enemy planned to move units of the 38th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 35th All-Military Army of the Eastern Military District from the territory of the Republic of Belarus to the Belgorod Region. The movement of some units of the Central Military District to this region is also recorded.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, no significant changes were found in the position and condition of the enemy troops. Units of the Eastern Military District withdrawn to the territory of the Gomel region are completing the regrouping.
The movement of enemy units to railway stations for loading and subsequent redeployment is noted.
The enemy continues to block Kharkiv in the Slobozhansky direction. Mostly at night, the Russian occupiers shell the city using multiple rocket launchers, artillery and mortars. In the area of the city of Izyum, the enemy did not take active action. By forces of separate divisions of the 20th all-military and 1st tank armies of the Western military district it carries out regrouping.
To increase the efficiency of the transfer of military cargo, the enemy began to use the railway. The arrival of railway echelons with weapons and military equipment from the Valuyki station (Russian Federation) to the Kupyansk railway station (Ukraine) has been recorded.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, the enemy’s main efforts are focused on hostilities in the areas of the settlements of Popasna and Rubizhne and the establishment of control over the city of Mariupol. Trying to improve the tactical position.
Continues to fire in most areas.
The enemy carried out artillery shelling in the areas of Kreminna, Pisky, Ocheretino, Rozivka, Novobahmutivka, Novosilka Druha, Marinka and Krasnohorivka.
In the areas of Popasna, Stepny, Novotoshkivsky, Rubizhny, Severodonetsk and Solodky, the enemy carried out assault operations, but was unsuccessful.
The storming of the city of Mariupol continues, while the enemy is actively using aircraft.
In the South Bug direction, the enemy continues to shell the settlements of Shcherbaki, Komyshuvakha, Novodanylivka, Mala Tokmachka, Huliaipilske, Lukyanivske, Preobrazhenka and Huliai Pole.
As a result of offensive actions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy lost control over the settlement of Osokorivka.
The defense forces continue to hold certain borders, destroy the enemy and liberate Ukrainian lands from the invader.

Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

18:08 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister

Military administrations have called for the evacuation of residents of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as long as possible.

18:03 Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

In anticipation of the offensive of the occupying troops of the Russian Federation, the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration advises residents of Lozova and Barvinkove to evacuate by trains

16:20 Kyiv City State Administration

In 40 days of full-scale Russian invasion, in Kyiv 89 civilians were killed, including 4 children, 398 were injured, including 20 children.

167 houses of various types, 44 schools, 26 kindergartens and 1 orphanage were damaged. 11 administrative buildings were also damaged.

15:54 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister

The Russian occupiers are massively kidnapping peaceful Ukrainians, but international humanitarian law prohibits the exchange of Russian prisoners of war for civilian Ukrainians.

“We have a lot of civilians being held hostage – mayors, journalists, volunteers, priests, women who worked in retail – just people who have never taken up arms. Today they are hostages of terrorists. And we have no one to replace them.

I ask the people I’m negotiating with: “We need to capture Russians all over the world and put them up as an exchange fund?! How can we get you to release our journalists and our priests. What can we do – we are a civilized country, not pirates, not terrorists. We can’t capture civilians”.

The Minister explained that the Geneva Conventions prohibit the exchange of prisoners of war for civilians. Therefore, the Russians are deliberately committing war crimes by taking peaceful Ukrainians hostage.

15:20 Herman Halushchenko, Minister of Energy of Ukraine

The situation at the Zaporizhzhya NPP remains the same – they are physically at the station. This is from 300 to 500 military and about 50 units of heavy equipment around the perimeter of the station. At a certain time, 11 people from Rosatom appeared at the station. We all know them, we have identified them from which of the Russian NPP they came. Now they are there and our staff is also there.

As for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the occupiers left it.

“There is information that this happened as the departure of the Horde with the removal of everything that is there – from forks to computers. In the coming days, we will see what is left there,” – said the Minister.

15:01 Ministry of defence of Ukraine

Borodyanka, Kyiv region.

Only 42 days ago, 13,000 people lived in this village.

russian occupiers brought death and destruction here. They wanted to do the same with the whole of Ukraine.

But our army fought back. Borodyanka is under the Ukrainian flag again.

14:40 Serhiy Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Again we have a cynical shelling of residential areas of Severodonetsk. The flames engulfed 10 high-rise buildings, a shopping center, garages – no strategic, military facilities. “Russian world” is destroying life in Luhansk region.

14:03 The Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine warns: the enemy uses the thesis of EU High Representative Josep Borrell for manipulation

A number of Russian media outlets spread out of context J. Borrell’s phrase that the Russian ruble “is well opposed to sanctions”

Based on this thesis, the Kremlin is producing propaganda materials in which it emphasizes that even world politicians and Europe seem to recognize the strength of the Russian economy, which will not be affected by sanctions

Mr Borrell did talk about the Russian economy on Spanish Radio COPE, but in his speech the diplomat insisted on tightening sanctions, as the existing restrictions are not enough to stop Putin and his entourage from fighting Ukraine. That is, J. Borrell did not express admiration for the Russian economy

Sanctions against Russia imposed for an indefinite period, it is obvious that the country does not immediately feel the global consequences of restrictions.

Iran has been living under sanctions for 40 years and has been looking for ways to lift the restrictions

13:42 Office of the President of Ukraine

From the President’s address to the people and politicians of the Republic of Ireland:

“They (the occupiers) are consistently destroying fuel storage facilities, product distribution centers, destroying even conventional agricultural machinery and bypassing fields. They are constantly passing everything they leave behind.

Why are they doing this? Because they also consider hunger as their weapon, a weapon against ordinary people. As a tool to dominate”.

“As a result of the Russian shelling, 927 educational institutions and 285 hospitals were destroyed or damaged. The occupiers fired even 73 ambulances”.

“Let’s join forces and show that Ukraine and Ireland together can do much more than the largest country on the planet planned to destroy. Grateful to Ireland! Glory to Ukraine!”

13:39 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

The occupiers are carrying out mass sweeping and looting. They are trying to identify all the “Nazis” – everyone who does not support the occupation. Russian troops have set up a filtration camp in Mangush near Mariupol, and they continue to forcibly deport people to Russia.

13:17 Suspilne

The occupiers fired at the town of Zolochiv, Kharkiv region, from the side of the temporarily captured Kozacha Lopan. There is one dead, three wounded, and destroyed houses.

“We have it now every day: in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening. In general, since the beginning of the war, we have 10 dead, 34 wounded, three of them are children,” told the head of the community Viktor Kovalenko.

13:08 Ukrainska Pravda

The atrocities of the Russian occupiers continue to strike with cold-bloodedness and nonsense at the same time. In Vorzel, the Russians hung the heads of the chickens they killed on clotheslines. The animal protection organization UAnimals reported another abuse of animals.

Hundreds of tortures, murders, and animal cruelties have been inflicted on Russian soldiers. In Borodianka alone, in the Kyiv region, more than 300 dogs died in the shelter as a result of the occupation.

A large number of zoos throughout Ukraine have repeatedly come under enemy shelling and bombing. In particular, the Mykolayiv Zoo, on which the Russians dropped shells and cluster missiles, is in a difficult situation.

The enemy also practically destroyed the eco-park in Kharkiv. If it weren’t for Ukrainian volunteers, predators would have to sleep.

An ostrich farm in Yasnogorodka, Kyiv Region, was also hit by enemy fire, killing dozens of animals. Some of them – from direct fire from enemy weapons.

13:03 Ministry of Internal Affairs

The head of the Main Investigation Department said that about 1,300 criminal proceedings had been initiated in Kyiv region on various facts. It is about waging an aggressive war, violating the rules and traditions of war.

13:00 Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk called for joining the release of Ukrainian hostages by representatives of international legal organizations.

“Currently, there are about 600 Russian prisoners in Ukraine,” the official reminded. “We are constantly negotiating their exchange for our defenders. We compile lists and involve the International Committee of the Red Cross in the process. But there is another problem. The Russians are holding hostages not only from the military, but many civilian Ukrainians: mayors, journalists, volunteers, clergy, and ordinary workers who have never taken up arms.”

As Iryna Vereshchuk explained, Ukraine has no one to change them for, because Russia sets a condition “the military – for the military, civilians – for civilians”.

“Russia has ratified international humanitarian law and now does not comply with it. The exchange of troops for civilians is prohibited by the Geneva Convention. That is why I appeal to the international community and human rights organizations to demand the release of Ukrainian civilians from the occupiers! That’s the only way out of this situation,” stated Vereshchuk.

12:53 Mariupol City Council

Russian mobile crematoria have started operating in Mariupol. After wide international publicity of the genocide in Bucha, Russia’s top leadership ordered to destroy any evidence of crimes committed by its army in Mariupol.

A week ago, cautious estimates put the death toll at 5,000 in Mariupol. However, given the size of the city, catastrophic destruction, the duration of the blockade, and fierce resistance, tens of thousands of civilians from Mariupol could have fallen victim to the occupiers.

The Russians left all the dirty work to the collaborators. Eyewitnesses report that the Russians recruited locals and terrorists of the so-called “DNR” to special brigades. They collect and burn the bodies of residents of Mariupol murdered by Russians.

The work of these groups is directly coordinated by the self-proclaimed mayor-collaborator Kostiantyn Ivashchenko.

12:13 Journalist Oleh Baturin

The prisoners, who were kept in the basement of a police building seized by the Russian Nazis in Nova Kakhovka, said they heard the voice and name of Vitalii Peretiatko, a former deputy of the Novokakhovka City Council among other prisoners.

The Russians constantly torture captured. People persuade to kill them to not suffer pain after the brutal beatings.

The prisoners said that they had heard tortured Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans required to confess that they had worked in the “Right sector” and threatened to send them – someone to Donetsk (to rebuild the “city” broken by the Benderites) and someone to Crimea

(to judge and create their own documented database of “evidence” and “atrocities” of “right-wingers”).

11:59 Security Service of Ukraine

In the conversations of the occupiers intercepted by the Security Service, Russian schoolchildren are asking to kill Ukrainians as soon as possible.

“I ask you: kill all Ukrainians as soon as possible and come home,” the sister wrote to her brother-occupier. In response, the brother, laughing, brag about it in a telephone conversation with a relative.

11:39 Suspilne

The Ukrainian Cultural Foundation has created an interactive “Map of Cultural Losses”. According to preliminary estimates, as of April 1, 2022, more than 150 different monuments and objects of culture were either partially damaged or destroyed.

11:21 SuspilneIn the Kherson region, the Russian military kidnapped the regional council deputy Serhii Maksymenko and his son. Their location is unknown.

10:23 Ukrainska Pravda citing the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Former mayor of Rubizhne Serhiy Khortiv not only collaborated with the Russian invaders but also passed on information about people with a pro-Ukrainian position to the occupiers. Haidai stated that Ukraine was able to “break the plans of the occupiers, who wanted to stage how the mayor hands over the keys [to the city] to the occupiers, and how they are welcomed.” The head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration explained that he had submitted a petition to the president, who had signed a decree establishing a military-civil administration in Rubizhne. The mayor lost his powers and ceased to be useful to the occupiers.

10:04 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Russia continues to use politicians and the former US military to spread disinformation about Ukraine. Former US Army Reserve Officer Tulsi Gabbard has been working for a foreign audience for Kremlin money for several years. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, this “Western expert” says that “the United States is guilty of Russia’s military aggression” because it “provoked” the aggressor for many years. “Washington’s ruling elite wants to kill as many Russians as possible by the hands of Ukrainians,” stated Gabbard.

Tulsi Gabbard has been repeatedly accused of links with Putin, but that has not stopped her from acting as an expert on Fox News. In addition to the topic of war, Gabbard is actively spreading disinformation about the development of weapons of mass destruction in bio laboratories of Ukraine.

Despite the fact that Russian disinformation and propaganda aimed at Western audiences are increasingly being debunked, the Kremlin still has many foreign propagandists on the payroll.

9:59 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 06.04 were approximately:

personnel ‒ about 18600,

tanks ‒ 684,

APV ‒ 1861,

artillery systems – 332,

MLRS ‒ 107,

anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 55,

aircraft – 150,

helicopters – 135,

vehicles ‒ 1324,

boats / cutters ‒ 7,

fuel tanks ‒ 76,

UAV operational-tactical level ‒ 96,

special equipment ‒ 25,

mobile SRBM system ‒ 4.

Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

9:51 Head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi

Ukrainian Air Defence Forces shot down two enemy cruise missiles over Radekhiv. The wreckage fell on the outskirts of the city, resulting in 3 explosions at an unused civilian infrastructure. There was a fire at the site of the explosion, which was immediately removed by SES forces. No one was injured.

8:40 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 6, 2022, more than 446 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

167 children were killed and 279 received injuries of varying severity during the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Children suffered the most in Kyiv – 78, Donetsk – 81, Kharkiv – 64, Chernihiv – 49, Mykolaiv – 39, Luhansk – 31, Zaporizhzhia – 22, Kherson – 29, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15 regions.

These data are not conclusive, as it is not possible to inspect the sites of shelling in areas of active hostilities and the temporarily occupied territories. In particular, in Mariupol, in some areas of Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Luhansk regions.

On March 25, in the Kharkiv region, a 13-year-old girl died as a result of the shelling of residential buildings in the villages of Mala Rohan and Vilkhivka by the Russian military.
On April 4, two young children were injured as a result of the shelling by the Russian Armed Forces in Avdiivka, Donetsk Region.

The deportation of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation continues:

12 children were abducted from the Regional Children’s Tuberculosis Center in Mariupol by the Russian military.
The mother-educator of the family-type orphanage together with her 8 fostered, 3 own, and 3 adopted children were forcibly deported from Mariupol to the city of Saransk in the Russian Federation.

7:25 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

The enemy attacked the region from the air and hit the oil depot and one of the plants. The fuel depot was destroyed. Rescuers are still extinguishing the conflagration.

7:00 Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

OHCHR recorded 3,675 civilian casualties in Ukraine: 1,480 killed and 2,195 injured. Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, and missile and airstrikes.

OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration. This concerns, for example, Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Popasna (Luhansk region), and Borodianka (Kyiv region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties.

6:57 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 6, 2022

The forty-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion began.

A Russian federation continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. The enemy’s main efforts are focused on preparing for an offensive operation aimed at establishing full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
The threat of Russian enemy use of naval, air, and ground-based missile weapons continues. The Russian occupiers are inflicting fire on the defense complex, logistics infrastructure, and residential areas of cities.
At the same time, the Russian enemy is trying to improve the tactical position in the South Buh direction. The use of the territory of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian-Moldavian Republic to support the offensive operation in this direction is not ruled out. Preparations for receiving aircraft are being carried out at Tiraspol airfield.
The Russian enemy does not abandon attempts to involve mercenaries from other countries in hostilities against Ukraine to make up for its losses in manpower. At the same time, the use of mercenaries will not have a significant impact on the course of hostilities, given their small number.
The command of the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Pechenga, Murmansk region) of the 14th Army Corps, which involved two battalions tactical groups in the war with Ukraine, trains servicemen to make up for losses. According to available information, the total loss of the brigade in manpower is about 30%. One battalion tactical group was destroyed, and the other was withdrawn to the area of recovery in the Belgorod region.
There are no signs of the formation of offensive groups in the Volyn direction. Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
The occupiers did not take any active action in the Polissya direction. Some of the enemy units withdrawn from this direction are located on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. Recovery measures are ongoing, presumably to regroup and strengthen other groups. It is possible that Russian troops will not leave the territory of the Republic of Belarus in order to restrain the actions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and prevent their transfer to other areas. Another goal is to assist the Republic of Belarus in covering part of the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
In the Siversky direction, the restoration of the enemy’s Russian occupation units, which had previously been withdrawn to the Bryansk and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation, is underway.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to block the city of Kharkiv and launch artillery shelling in its separate areas.
According to available information, the losses of the 236th Artillery Brigade of the 20th Combined Arms Army are about 20 percent of the personnel and weapons. This significantly reduced the intensity of the brigade’s actions.
In the Izium direction, the Russian occupiers did not abandon their intentions to create a strike group and continue the offensive in the direction of the settlements of Sloviansk and Barvinkove.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is trying to improve the tactical position of its units. Continues to carry out assault operations in the areas of Popasna, Stepne, Novotoshkivske, Rubizhne, Sievierodonetsk, and Solodke. It is not successful.
The Russian occupiers continue to actively use munitions prohibited by international humanitarian law. Attempts to storm Mariupol do not stop. The defenders of the city held a heroic defense for more than forty days, restraining the overwhelming forces of the Russian invaders.
In the Tavriia direction, in the area of the settlement of Basan, the movement of some units from the 58th Combined Arms Army was recorded, probably for the purpose of regrouping forces.
In the South Buh area, the enemy is taking measures to restore combat capability and take measures to engineer equipment positions. Continues to terrorize civilians in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region.
As a result of the offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy lost control over the settlements of Dobrianka, Novovoznesenske, and Trudoliubivka. Fighting continues in the area of the settlement of Oleksandrivka.
The group of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 8 cruise missiles the previous day. The Air Force aircraft continued to support the actions of the ground forces of the Defence Forces and launched airstrikes on the occupying forces.

6:54 Evropeiska Pravda

Latvia has frozen Russian real estate for more than 100 million euros

Currently, the value of Russian real estate frozen in Latvia due to sanctions exceeds 100 million euros, but it is expected that it may increase.

This was stated by the Minister of Justice of Latvia Janis Bordans.

The Minister noted that the frozen fleet is also estimated at several million euros.

Bordans said that no information was provided on the assets of legal entities, which may be even more valuable. These assets may include, in particular, various dangerous goods in Latvian ports, which the Latvian state “must take special care of”.

🟡05.04.2022

22:52 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes and manipulations that the enemy spread on April 5, 2022:

Fake: commenting on the situation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that “the reason for the blatantly false provocation in the city of Bucha is an attempt to disrupt the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations”;
Manipulation: representatives of the Russian military and political leadership, in particular Dmitry Peskov, do not rule out “the emergence of new fakes, similar to the shooting in Bucha, and Russia will insist on what is true and what is fiction”;
Fake: in the evening update, the Russian Defense Ministry said that “nationalist battalions are intensively shelling the area of the humanitarian corridor adjacent to Mariupol, thus disrupting the evacuation of civilians and foreigners from the city.”

21.30 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

As a result of Russia’s war against Ukraine, 1,480 civilians were killed and another 2,195 wounded

At the same time, the UN believes that the real numbers are much higher, as information from some places where fightings still are taking place is delayed, and many reports need to be confirmed. This applies, in particular, to the following settlements: Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Popasna (Luhansk region), and Borodyanka (Kyiv region).

20.53 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss

The West needs to increase pressure on Putin and help Ukraine to victory, because the Russian leader understands only force.

“In order to achieve peace, we must be firm. This means that we, our allies and partners, will double what has already put Putin in an awkward position – sanctions against his regime and significant weapons for Ukraine. Power is the only thing Putin understands. This is what should continue to determine our response. We need to continue to hit his regime hard with additional sanctions. We must make sure that Putin will never be able to threaten Ukraine again,” Liz Truss said.

19.06 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 5, 2022.

The forty-first day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues.

Measures to regroup the troops of the Russian federation continue. The enemy did not abandon the purpose of the operation to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Russian enemy is trying to improve the position of units in the Tavriya and South Buh operational districts.
Russian troops, defiantly ignoring the rules of international humanitarian law, continue to use aircraft and artillery to strike at civilian infrastructure and industry. Thus, as a result of the shelling of the city of Rubizhne, Luhansk oblast, the occupiers damaged a tank with nitric acid.
In the western military district of the Russian Federation, in order to recruit units that have suffered losses on the territory of Ukraine, covert mobilization measures are being carried out. In addition, the command of the armed forces of the Russian Federation is trying to make up for the loss of personnel by involving representatives of military schools. The Chita Suvorov Military School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia conducted a written survey of teaching staff on their readiness to take part in a “special operation” outside the Russian federation. Many teachers have given up on possible involvement in the “performance of tasks” and are ready to be discharged from military service.
The export of military equipment of the armed forces of the Russian Federation from the territory of the Republic of Belarus by rail and military transport planes continues in the Siversky direction. At the same time, the movement of certain units of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus in the direction of the state border of Ukraine was revealed. The rotation of units involved in strengthening the protection of the state border of Belarus is not ruled out.
In the Slobozhansky direction the blockade by the Russian enemy of the separate area of the Kharkiv region proceeds. In the settlements of Velykyi Burluk, Prykolotne, and Fedorivka, the Russian occupiers are searching for pro-Ukrainian residents and illegally detaining them.
In the city of Izium, the Russian occupiers are fabricating evidence of the alleged crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To this end, they are shelling the settlement and creating a kind of “documentation”.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy, with the support of aircraft and artillery, continues to storm the city of Mariupol.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhya region, in the city of Berdiansk, local residents are being detained.
In Tokmak, medical staff at local health facilities are being forced to sign so-called “contracts” with the Russian Ministry of Health.
Ukraine’s Defence Forces continue to carry out tasks to liberate the occupied territory from Russian occupation forces.

Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

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19.01 Volodymyr Trush, Head of the Ternopil Regional State Administration

In the Ternopil region, 6 tanks with organic fertilizers were damaged due to falling fragments of an enemy cruise missile on Tuesday night, and chemicals leaked. Water pollution in the Ikva River also occurred. Residents of settlements near the river are advised to limit the use of water from wells. Clean water is delivered to settlements.

19.00 Commissioner for Human Rights of Ukraine Liudmyla DenisovaFemale servicemen recently released from Russian captivity have been tortured and humiliated

16:58 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

On April 4, police documented 51 enemy shelling of residential areas in the Luhansk region. The Russians fired mortars, artillery, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and used aircraft. During the evacuation from Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, an evacuation convoy came under fire in Novodruzhesk – one bus was damaged.

16:27 President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen

European Commission proposed the 5th package of sanctions against Russia:

1 – An import ban on coal from Russia, worth €4 billion per year, cutting another important revenue source for Russia.

2 – A full transaction ban on 4 key Russian banks, among them VTB, the 2nd largest Russian bank.

3 – A ban on Russian & Russian-operated vessels from accessing EU ports and a ban on Russian and Belarusian road transport operators.

4 – Further export bans, worth €10 billion, in crucial areas: advanced semiconductors, machinery, and transport equipment.

5 – Specific new import bans, worth €5.5 billion euros.

6 – Targeted measures, such as a ban on participation of Russian companies in public procurement in the EU and exclusion of all financial support, EU or national to Russian public bodies.

“Russia is waging a cruel, ruthless war, also against Ukraine’s civilian population. We need to sustain utmost pressure at this critical point,” stated Ursula von der Leyen.

16:12 Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

Russia is preparing a large-scale provocation in Mariupol to accuse Ukraine of it.

The main task of Russian propaganda today is to divert the attention of the audience, both international and domestic, as much as possible. According to available data, the occupiers are preparing a large-scale falsification: they plan to gather in one place the bodies of Mariupol residents killed by the Russians and present them as mass victims of Ukrainian troops.

To this end, false theses have recently been circulating that “Ukrainians use civilians as human shields.” This is an outright delusion. It is the Russian troops who are destroying the residents of Mariupol – in early March the city was already forced to bury the dead in mass graves.

14:14 Ukrinform citing CNN The film crew of the American CNN TV channel came under artillery fire near the settlement of Oleksandrivka, not far from Mykolaiv. The shelling began at the time of filming.

14:05 Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy

Russia is spreading propaganda that Ukraine as a state has never existed, and is trying to convince other states of this disinformation.

However, as early as 1710, the Ukrainian hetman Philip Orlyk created the first model of a free, independent state in Europe. He created the Constitution, which enshrined the concept of “free people”, the foundations of democracy and justice, anti-corruption, and social principles.

13:25 Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine

The Ministry published a screenshot of one of the announcements from the Russians about the sale of items looted in Ukraine.

12:47 Ukrinform

Ukrainian mobile communications and the Internet have disappeared in Berdiansk in the Zaporizhzhia region, which is temporarily occupied by Russian invaders.

12:46 Commissioner for Human Rights of Ukraine Liudmyla Denisova

Residents of the temporarily occupied Izium in the Kharkiv region are forcibly deported by Russian occupiers to the territory of the Russian Federation.

The enemy creates filtration corridors and camps, through which he deports Ukrainian citizens to Russia.

Currently, Russian media report that they have deported 615,000 people from Ukraine, including 121,000 children.

Such treatment of civilians is a crime against humanity and a war crime as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

12:14 State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

Ukrainian defence forces have regained control of the state border in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.

11:36 Ukrainska Pravda

According to the Russian propaganda media agency RIA Novosti, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev continues to call the atrocities of Russians in Bucha and Mariupol fake. He added that “the goal is for the peace of future generations of Ukrainians and the opportunity to finally build an open Eurasia – from Lisbon to Vladivostok.”

11:33 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

The 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the 35th Combine Arms Army, whose servicemen committed the massacre of civilians in Bucha, will be returned to Ukraine. The Russian command will not rotate the personnel in this unit and will throw them back to the front.

11:32 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Russians hit a tank with nitric acid in Rubizhne.

11:20 Ukrinform

Ukraine is working to ban Russian channels on the French satellite platform Eutelsat. The Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko announced it on the air of the Ukraine 24 TV channel.

11:09 Security Service of Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine has released another video of captured Russian occupiers.

One military volunteer says that the task of his battalion was to get from Belarus to Kyiv in 5 days and capture 3 bridges in the capital. Instead, to survive, he surrendered after 40 days of roaming. Russian says that his colleagues “broke away” on outrages and looting, having no achievements on the battlefield. He admits that he saw them stealing equipment, inflatable boats, and jewelry.

The feeling of uselessness does not leave the other captured Russian soldier – a paramedic: “I provided medical assistance to a colleague, but no one came after us – we were simply forgotten. After that, there was nothing left to give up.” The only thing he understood from his military experience was that here “people live their lives and do not want our liberation.”

The occupier shares his insight with his mother: “We are not liberators. We invaded another’s land, and when we felt free… some individuals burned houses, leaving people homeless… I can’t explain to myself what I forgot here.”

11:02 State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

A civilian ship fired by the Russians is sinking in the port of Mariupol. At night, during another shelling of the city from the sea, the enemy hit a ship under the flag of the Dominican Republic, which was located near one of the berths.

10:57 State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of UkraineThe government’s Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-UA, which operates under the State Service, has found that hackers who attack government agencies in Ukraine also attack EU countries.

10:48 European Pravda

A new conflict is erupting between Georgia and Ukraine over possible goods transit for the Russian army.

Georgia has rejected statements by Ukraine’s Central Intelligence Agency that the Russians are establishing channels for smuggling counterfeit goods through Georgian territory.

“To circumvent the sanctions, Russian agents are setting up smuggling channels, which pass, in particular, through Georgia. At the same time, representatives of the Georgian special services have been instructed by the political leadership not to interfere with smugglers,” the intelligence said.

10:47 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

In Sievierodonetsk, Russians hit the gas pipeline. Maloriazantsevo and part of Novodruzhesk were also left without gas.

36 settlements of 131,944 residents in the Luhansk region remain without gas supply (30 – completely and 6 – partially).

30 settlements of 95,938 residents remain without electricity (13 – partially and 17 – completely).

There is no water supply in Rubizhne, Popasna, Sievierodonetsk, partly in the Hora community and Lysychansk.

9:04 Air Command “West” of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

On the night of April 5, a pair of Su-35s from Belarus struck cruise missiles across Ukraine.

The targets of the Russians likely were to be objects of civil infrastructure in several western regions.

Three cruise missiles were destroyed by air defense means, and the fourth was damaged, which did not allow it to hit the target.

The enemy fired missiles and conducted reconnaissance of the results of the strike by two operational-tactical UAVs, which were also destroyed by anti-aircraft missile units of the West Air Command.

8:52 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 05.04 were approximately:

personnel ‒ about 18500,

tanks ‒ 676,

APV ‒ 1858,

artillery systems – 332,

MLRS ‒ 107,

anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 55,

aircraft – 150,

helicopters – 134,

vehicles ‒ 1322,

boats / cutters ‒ 7,

fuel tanks ‒ 76,

UAV operational-tactical level ‒ 94,

special equipment ‒ 25,

mobile SRBM system ‒ 4.

Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

8:41 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Russia continues to use the former US military to spread disinformation about Ukraine.

Former US Army officer David Payne has worked with the Kremlin for many years. During Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, this “expert” spread in foreign media the following theses: “The West should stop supplying weapons to Ukraine so as not to provoke Russia to even greater aggression” and “Ukraine must give Russia Crimea and Donbas to avoid World War III.”

This American “analyst” also says that NATO may exclude Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia from the alliance.

All these statements have nothing to do with reality. For years, the Kremlin has built its propaganda campaign to discredit the civilized world by bribing and recruiting even Western officials.

8:16 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 5, 2022, more than 431 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

165 children were killed and 266 received injuries of varying severity during the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Children suffered the most in Kyiv – 77, Kharkiv – 61, Donetsk – 78, Chernihiv – 49, Mykolaiv – 35, Luhansk – 31, Zaporizhzhia – 22, Kherson – 29, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15 regions.

7:41 Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrskyi

To date, law enforcement officers have recorded 1,200 facts of war crimes committed by the Russian military in the Kyiv region.

“More than 600 saboteurs have been detained during the war. The highest number of war crimes was recorded in the Kyiv region, now there are 1,200,” he said.

According to Monastyrskyi, many tripwires, unexploded ordnance, and explosives remain in the liberated cities. More than 5,000 items were found and neutralized by the State Emergency Service the day before.

Monastyrskyi urged citizens not to rush back to the previously occupied settlements, as “this area is still quite dangerous,” Monastyrskyi said.

7:38 Head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhii Haidai

The situation in the Luhansk region is difficult. Neither rescuers nor ambulance doctors can reach some districts of Popasna and Rubizhne. The shelling is very heavy, and street fighting continues. In Rubizhne, the dead are buried in the yards.

6:52 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 5, 2022.

The forty-first day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion began.

The enemy is regrouping troops and concentrating its efforts on preparing an offensive operation in the east of our country. The goal is to establish control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The enemy is trying to improve the position of units in the Tavriya and Pivdennobuzhsky operational areas.
The units withdrawn from Polissia and Sivershchyna are being relocated to new operational areas. The redeployment of troops of the Central Military District from the territory of Ukraine has been completed. After the restoration of combat readiness, the designated units will be moved to the area of the Valuyki settlement and included in the offensive groups of troops.
The movement of columns of armaments and military equipment on the territory of the Republic of Belarus in the direction of the railway stations Gomel, Yelsk, and Mozyr for loading on railway echelons is noted. A significant part of the aircraft and helicopters of the Air and Space Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were relocated from the airfields of the Republic of Belarus to the territory of Russia.
Separate units of the 6th and 20th Combined Arms Army, 1st Panzer Army, Baltic and Northern Fleets focused on preparing for the resumption of the offensive, as well as trying to encircle the Joint Forces. The enemy replenishes supplies of food, fuel and lubricants, and ammunition.
The Russian occupiers continue to blockade Kharkiv, continuing artillery shelling and further destroying the city’s residential neighborhoods and infrastructure.
In the direction of Slovyansk, the enemy is trying to resume offensive operations. In the direction of Barvinkove, the Russians advanced 7 km and took control of the village of Brazhkivka. Also, the battalion tactical group of the 1st Panzer Regiment advanced towards the village of Sulyhivka but unsuccessfully. To improve the movement of troops in the direction and ensure the crossing of the river Siverskyi Donets Russians are working to restore the bridge in the city of Izium.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk areas, the occupiers are focusing their efforts on taking control of the Popasna and Rubizhne districts, establishing full control over Mariupol, and preparing offensive operations near the Zolota Nyva settlement.
In the areas of Borivske, Novoluhanske, Solodke, Marinka, Zolota Nyva, the enemy continued artillery shelling of positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilian infrastructure.
Near the settlements of Novotoshkivske, Nyzhnie, Popasna, Kalynove, Stepne, Rubizhne, Troitske, Novobakhmutivka, Novoselivka, the second enemy carried out assault operations, had no success.
Russian invaders inflicted massive artillery and airstrikes on the city of Mariupol.
In the direction of the Pidennobuzkyi direction, the occupying forces carry out assault actions with the support of artillery for the purpose of taking control of the settlement of Oleksandrivka, having partial success. In the area of the settlements of Liubyne, Myrne, Kopani, the occupiers fired artillery at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russian troops carried out attacks on Mykolaiv with the cluster munitions forbidden by the Geneva convention. Civilian quarters and medical facilities, including a children’s hospital, came under enemy fire. There are dead and wounded, including children.
The occupying forces continue to suffer losses. They have big problems with the staffing of combat units and support units. The personnel of the enemy was demoralized, which led to an increase in the number of cases of desertion and refusals of servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation to take part in the war on the territory of Ukraine.

4:34 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyy

At least three tortured Ukrainians have already been found in the Konotop district on the site of the former enemy camp. They were civilians.

1:29 Suspilne, Yle

Finnish Economy Minister Mika Lintilä said that Europe should completely abandon imports of Russian energy, even though it would worsen the living standards of Europeans.

“Russia needs to be energetically isolated because this is the only way to influence the Russian economy so much that it has an impact on their actions,” the official said.

In particular, according to the Minister, oil supplies from Russia to the EU should be banned.

“Oil is now turning red blood in Ukraine,” he said.

Mika Lintilä is convinced that it will be possible to compensate for the refusal of Russian oil with imports from other countries. He stressed that Finland is ready to give up Russian energy resources on its own.

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23:35 Vitalii Kim, head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration

11 people were killed and 61 wounded as a result of shelling in Mykolaiv today. Among the dead is one child. They fired deliberately at the center of the city, where there are many civilians.

21.23 Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on Western leaders to agree on the toughest possible sanctions against Russia after it became known about the crimes of the Russian military in the occupied cities.

“Half-measures are no longer enough. I demand from our partners on behalf of the victims in Bucha, from the people of Ukraine to impose the strictest sanctions on Russia this week. This is not a request of the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. This is the plea of the victims of rape, torture, murder, their relatives and the entire Ukrainian nation”, – said the Foreign Minister.

20:54 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister

Russia has blocked 7 evacuation buses from Mariupol in the city of Mangush. The occupying forces continue to break agreements with us and their own promises.

19:07 Belaruski Gaiiun

Opposition journalists managed to get phone numbers, military units and cities of residence of the Russian occupiers, who arranged the delivery of looted items of Ukrainians in Mozyr.

From 14:46 Yuri Sobolevsky, First Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council

Today at 10:30 in Zaliznyi Port the occupiers kidnapped Burak Mykhailo Ivanovych, head of the Bekhtery hromada.

His whereabouts are currently unknown.

18:50 Razumkov Center

The vast majority (79.2%) of refugees from Ukraine intend to return to their homeland after the war and only 10.9% do not plan to return, according to a poll conducted by the Razumkov Center’s Sociological Service.

89.1% are sure that Ukraine will win this war, only 1% are sure that it will lose, the rest are difficult to answer.

From March 15 to April 1, 2022, 101 respondents over the age of 16 who crossed the state border on foot or by road were interviewed.

18:25 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Operational information as of 18.00 on 04.04.2022 regarding the Russian invasion

Fortieth day of the heroic fight of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion continues.

The enemy continues to suffer losses in the course of full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. During the whole Russian-Ukrainian war, since February 24, representatives of the military command of the armed forces of the Russian Federation only twice announced the loss of personnel of a group of troops fighting in our country.

Despite the so-called “official” Russian number of casualties, the losses of individual units and subdivisions of the occupiers are periodically known. According to available information, the losses of the 20th Motorized Rifle Division (Kamyshin, Volgograd Region) of the 8th All-Military Army of the Southern Military District, in particular: the 33rd, 255th, 294th Motorized Rifle Regiments, which returned to their permanent locations, amounted to 40% of personnel, weapons and military equipment. As a result, a significant number of servicemen who were lucky enough to return are trying to retire.

The existing military medical facilities in Russia and Belarus are not enough for the treatment of such a significant number of wounded servicemen of the occupying forces on the territory of Ukraine. Thus, the medical staff of the central district hospital in Glushkovo, Kursk region, has been transferred to an intensified duty regime. This is due to the fact that in the period from March 29 to April 2, from the territory of Sumy region to the medical institution came about 100 wounded occupiers.

In the city of Izium, due to significant losses of personnel of the 237th Panzer Regiment and the 752nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division, the invaders were forced to equip a field hospital in the local school.

In the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region, in the town of Polohy, servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation seized and mined the inner territory of the central district hospital. Staff and patients were warned not to return to the hospital. The wounded occupiers remained in the hospital.

The Russian military leadership is trying to make up for the existing losses of officers at the expense of officers of higher military educational institutions. According to the available information, the military academy of communications in St. Petersburg is urgently training officers to replace positions in military units.

The situation in the Siversky direction has not changed. Elimination of the consequences of the activities of the Russian occupation forces continues.

In Slobozhanshchina, in the city of Izyum, the enemy is carrying out filtration measures and forcible removal of local residents to the territory of the Russian Federation.

Fighting continues in the territories of the temporarily occupied Kherson region. Around Nova Kakhovka, the enemy increased control at checkpoints. The invaders resort to detaining civilians and forcing them into engineering equipment positions. Cases of illegal seizure of vehicles from the population have become more frequent.

Ukraine’s defense forces continue to push back the enemy and liberate the temporarily occupied territories.

17:12 Novosti N

In Mykolaiv, as a result of shelling by banned cluster munitions, several citizens who were on a public transport stop and in a bus died.

17:12 Speaker of the Ministry of Defence Oleksandr Motuzianyk

Russian occupation forces are preparing to attack and capture Kharkiv and Ukrainian troops in the area of the Joint Forces Operation.

16:42 Energoatom

Energoatom is aware of the planned arrival of a large number of Russian propagandists (about 20) who pretend to be journalists to create fakes at the Zaporizhzhya NPP.

The occupiers are pressuring Ukrainian ZNPP staff to comment positively on the Russian military and working conditions. However, Ukrainian workers advise them to move in the direction of the Russian warship.

15:27 Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine

The Ministry of Infrastructure simplifies the rules for issuing permits for international road transport.

It was agreed to revoke bilateral and transit permits for transportation through the territory of seven European Union countries, including Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Denmark, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, as well as Georgia, and Turkey. Slovakia also agreed to transit without permits.

14:44 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Call on the world to impose sanctions on more people involved in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. “War & Sanctions” page about sanctioned individuals has appeared on the website of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption.

The site allows you to call on the world to impose sanctions on a specific person in a few clicks. For this:

1) find the right person on the list;

2) click on the icon of your favorite social network.

It will soon be possible to review the list of sanctioned legal entities, information on sanctions imposed due to the war in Ukraine since 2014, and data on the assets of persons involved in the military aggression of the Russian Federation.

14:32 Ukrinform

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna predicts a strengthening of the Hungary-Russia friendship policy after Victor Orban’s victory in the parliamentary elections.

Stefanishyna stated this at a briefing on Monday. “We have no new expectations from the Hungarian side. In our opinion, the policy of friendship with the Russian Federation pursued before will intensify,” Stefanishyna said.

14:28 Suspilne

The Russian military continues to kidnap civilians in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The number of abducted people and their fate are unknown. Eyewitnesses say that the Russian military goes from house to house, conducts illegal searches, and captures and beats people. The abductees are being held in Kherson prison cells.

13:15 Suspilne

Residents of the village of Lukashivka in the Chernihiv region told that men were taken out for execution and women were intimidated by the Russian army during the occupation.

12:54 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 12.00 on April 4, 2022.

The fortieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues.

A Russian enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

A Russian enemy command, to prepare for an offensive operation in the east of Ukraine, deploys elements of the operational construction of the offensive group and increases the C2 system. Russian occupying forces are regrouping and trying to improve the tactical situation in some areas in southern Ukraine. The formation and relocation of additional units of a Russian federation to participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine continue.
In the Volyn direction, the situation has not changed, units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, with forces of up to four battalion tactical groups, continue to perform tasks to cover the border.
In the Polissya direction, there is a high probability of missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure by Russian enemy planes operating from Belarusian airfields.
There is a movement of units of the Eastern Military District and airborne troops from the territory of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian federation. The movement of weapons, military equipment, and personnel is carried out by rail and air.
According to available information, separate units of the 35th Combined Arms Army (Belogorsk) and the 36th Combined Arms Army (Ulan-Ude) of the Eastern Military District are located in the settlements of Rechitsa and Yampol (Gomel Region of the Republic of Belarus).
In the Siversky direction, the enemy completed the withdrawal of units from the Central Military District to the Kursk region and began their further movement.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to blockade Kharkiv, carry out artillery shelling of the city, and regroup troops. Strengthens the air cover of important objects in the area of the city of Belgorod and areas of concentration of troops in the Kharkiv direction.
To clarify the positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy is conducting reconnaissance in the area of the village of Barvinkove with the use of UAVs, also trying to restore the bridge over the river Siversky Donets near the city of Izyum. Near the settlement of Brazhkivka, with the help of a tank company tactical group, the enemy conducted reconnaissance by battle, had no success, and retreated to the previously occupied frontiers.
There is still a high probability of air and missile strikes on civilian targets in Kharkiv, and preparations are underway for an offensive in the direction of Slovyansk.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the main efforts of the enemy are concentrated in the areas of the settlements of Rubizhne, Popasna, preparation for the attack on Siverodonetsk, as well as gaining full control over the city of Mariupol. On it today a Russian enemy struck 8 airstrikes, and street fights proceed. Ukrainian defenders are defending the city.
At the same time, the enemy completes the regrouping and replacement of units that have lost offensive capabilities to resume active offensive operations.
In the South Buh direction, our troops are pushing back the occupiers in the Kherson oblast. The enemy carried out air reconnaissance around Mykolayiv with the use of the UAV.
In the Black Sea and Azov operational zones, the activity of the enemy ship group in the Black Sea is reduced due to difficult weather conditions (a storm up to 4 points). The rest of the enemy ships perform tasks in certain areas.

12:36 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The Russians are establishing a channel for smuggling sanctioned goods through Georgia.

Due to the introduction of international sanctions, Russia has lost the ability to supply a wide range of military, dual, and civilian goods. To circumvent the sanctions, Russian agents are setting up smuggling channels that pass, in particular, through Georgia. At the same time, representatives of the Georgian special services were instructed by the political leadership not to interfere with the activities of smugglers.

Today we know about another channel for the supply of military goods to Russia – East Asia. Through it, spare parts for machinery, electronics, and optical devices are delivered to the occupying country.

The possibility of resuming flights between Georgia and Russia is also being considered.

12:36 Kyiv Regional Military Administration

In the settlements liberated from the invader, sweep and search operations and demining are carried out. During the day in the territory of the Kyiv region, rescuers found 4886 explosive devices.

12:34 Suspilne

The UN Security Council will not convene an unscheduled meeting on Monday, April 4, at the request of Russia’s foreign ministry over what Moscow called the “criminal provocations by Ukrainian soldiers and radicals” in the town of Bucha near Kyiv. Russia’s foreign ministry said it would reiterate its request for the Council, Reuters reports.

12:10 Ukrainska Pravda

On the day of NATO’s founding, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said the Alliance was “a major global threat” and urged its members to remember that “Russia is watching them from space.”

12:04 National Police of Ukraine

During the past 24hrs, the police registered 13 cases of shelling by the occupying forces from artillery and rocket-propelled grenade launchers of the cities of Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Rubizhne, Kreminna, Popasna, Novodruzhesk, Pryvillia, the village of Stara Krasnianka of the Kreminna Territorial Community, and the Hora Territorial Community. The shelling killed and wounded civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure and livelihoods.

11:47 Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power

At least 16 heads of communities have been abducted by Russian occupiers since the start of the war.

11:31 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

Over the past day, the Russians fired 17 shells on the Saltivka, Pyatyhatky, and Derhachi districts. As a result of the shelling of the Slobidskyi district of Kharkiv, 7 people were killed and 34 were injured, including 3 children in serious condition. In the morning, the shelling of residential areas continued. Another 3 were killed and 7 were injured in the shelling of a residential area in Derhachi.

10:59 Head of Chernihiv Regional Military Administration Viacheslav Chaus

In the Chernihiv region, there are many mined roads, destroyed communications, and blown-up bridges. Currently, the Road Service, the military, and the administration are organizing routes throughout the region to restore pre-war traffic as soon as possible and get to any corner of the region.

10:49 Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych

The Russians fired on the gynaecology department of the city hospital.

10:42 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Information about the Russian invasion

The operational situation on the diplomatic front as of 10:00, April 4

The world is shocked by the atrocities of Russian invaders in the Kyiv region. A large number of states and international organizations have condemned Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine and called for an immediate investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice. The EU and the US will help our country in documenting the crimes of the Russian army.

Dmytro Kuleba: “Bucha massacre was deliberate. Russians aim to eliminate as many Ukrainians as they can. I demand new devastating G7 sanctions now: oil, gas, coal embargo; close all posts to Russian vessels and goods; disconnect all Russian banks from SWIFT.”

Support of the world

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky made a video address at the 64th Grammy Awards. In his speech, the Head of State called on the world to tell the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Poland demands the immediate convening of an EU summit on Russian military crimes in Ukraine and the imposition of further sanctions against Russia.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an independent investigation into the mass killings of civilians in Bucha and the prosecution of those responsible.

Russian criminals on the way behind bars

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has initiated the creation of a special mechanism of justice in Ukraine to investigate and prosecute every crime of the Russian occupiers in our country. This mechanism will unite the efforts of national and international experts: investigators, prosecutors, and judges to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen called for an urgent investigation into war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine.
Polish President Andrzej Duda said that the photos from Bucha prove the fallacy of the belief that a compromise should be sought at any cost. According to him, the Ukrainian army needs three things: “weapons, weapons, and weapons again.”

Sanctions

The US Department of Commerce is imposing additional sanctions on Russia’s and Belarus’ defense, aerospace, maritime, and other strategic sectors in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

Refusal of the gas needle of the Russian Federation

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have completely stopped importing Russian natural gas.
German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht called on EU countries to discuss an embargo on Russian gas supplies.

10:05 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Mobile crematoria were not intended for Russian soldiers, but to destroy the bodies of civilians. Commenting on the massacre in Bucha, Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said on Twitter that Russian troops had brought mobile crematoria to Ukraine to cover up their crimes.

Incinerator IN-50.1K – mobile crematorium is designed for the disposal of human remains. Since the Russian command has long reported no casualties, it seemed that the purpose of the crematoriums on the territory of Ukraine was to burn the corpses of Russian soldiers

To hide the traces of war crimes, the Russian army planned to burn the bodies of dead civilians according to the KGB method “no body – no crime”. Under pressure from the Armed Forces, hastily fleeing the Kyiv region, the occupiers left the corpses of Russian soldiers and the bodies of tortured Ukrainian citizens. The whole world saw the documented crimes of the “Russian world”.

9:47 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 03.04 were approximately:

personnel ‒ 18300,
tanks ‒ 647,
APV ‒ 1844,
artillery systems – 330,
MLRS ‒ 107,
anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 54,
aircraft – 147,
helicopters – 134,
vehicles ‒ 1273,
boats / cutters ‒ 7,
fuel tanks ‒ 76,
UAV operational-tactical level ‒ 92,
special equipment ‒ 25,
mobile SRBM system ‒ 4.

Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

9:19 Head of Ternopil Regional Military Administration Volodymyr Trush

During an air-raid siren, at about 22:20, the enemy tried to destroy one of the critical infrastructure facilities in Ternopil. No one was injured. SES and police officers are working on the spot.

8:18 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

As of the morning of April 4, 2022, more than 425 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

161 children were killed and 264 wounded during the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Children suffered the most in Kyiv – 75, Kharkiv – 59, Donetsk – 78, Chernihiv – 49, Mykolaiv – 34, Luhansk – 31, Zaporizhzhia – 22, Kherson – 29, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15 regions.

On April 2, a 9-year-old child was injured during shelling by the Russian occupiers in the town of Vuhledar, Donetsk region.

On April 3, as a result of an attack on Mykolaiv, 11 people, one of them a child, were wounded.

On April 3, three children were injured in the shelling of Kharkiv.

The bombing and shelling damaged 869 educational institutions. 83 of them were destroyed.

8:03 Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych

Since the morning, Russian troops have launched several missile strikes on the city. Data are being clarified.

7:27 Head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhii Haidai

Two volunteers were killed in a mortar attack, which the Russian Army was carried out in Novodruzhesk on April 3.

“Volunteers were giving humanitarian aid to local residents. Every day, despite the enemy fire, they came to the gathering place and provided people with food and necessities. It was the same yesterday until a mine hit. By the way, one of the victims saved her colleague when the Russian shelling of the city began. Eternal memory,” Haidai wrote.

6:40 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 4, 2022.

The fortieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion has begun.

The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue their armed aggression against Ukraine.

The military-political leadership of the Russian Federation has begun measures to covertly mobilize reservists to bring military units to wartime states. In the selection of candidates, preference is given to persons who already have combat experience. Privates, sergeants, and officers are subject to mobilization. The main regions for mobilization have also been identified: Krasnodar Krai, Perm Krai, the Republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Kalmykia.
The main motivating factor for reservists is financial incentives. In addition, the Russian population believes that the participants in the war with Ukraine can improve their financial situation through so-called “trophies”, ie robbery and looting.
The command of the armed forces of the Russian Federation expects to involve about 60 thousand people during the mobilization.
Acquisition of weapons and military equipment to wartime states will be due to the removal from storage of obsolete equipment. Some samples are stored in bases and warehouses for more than 30 years.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the defenders of Ukraine repulsed seven enemy attacks over the past 24 hours and destroyed two units of armored vehicles, forty-three vehicles, and an enemy mortar.
Anti-aircraft missile forces of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine the previous day hit 6 air targets: three aircraft (Su-34, Su-35, and repeater aircraft IL-22), one helicopter, and two cruise missiles. As for the air control point on the basis of IL-22, it became known that the plane was damaged, the cockpit was depressurized, and the pilots made an emergency landing at Rostov airfield.
Air Force aircraft continued to launch missile and bomb attacks on enemy ranges, columns of military equipment, and logistics centers. Fighters of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prevent the activities of enemy aircraft in certain areas and cover strike groups, bombers, and assault aircraft.

4:00 Kherson Journalist Kostiantyn Ryzhenko

Journalist and volunteer Kostiantyn Ryzhenko, who has been wanted since March 31, got in touch. He wrote a post on Facebook and told the story of his disappearance – he was hiding from the Russian military, who were searching for him through relatives.

00:51 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 24.00 on April 3, 2022.

The thirty-ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion ends.

A Russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. A Russian enemy temporarily refused to carry out the task of blocking and capturing the city of Kyiv. The occupiers continue to launch missile strikes on critical infrastructure throughout Ukraine, trying to sow panic among the population and disrupt the logistics of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
In the Volyn direction, the situation has not changed significantly, certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to perform tasks to cover the border.
In the Polissya direction, a Russian enemy completes the regrouping and preparation for the redeployment of individual units from the territory of Belarus to a Russian federation.
According to available information, some units of Russian occupiers from the airborne troops are transferred by military transport aircraft to the city of Belgorod. In order to slow down the advance of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the occupiers carried out mass chaotic mining not only of previously occupied positions and areas but also of deployment routes.
In the Slobozhansky direction, a Russian enemy continues to blockade the city of Kharkiv, inflict artillery strikes on residential areas of the city and try to regroup troops.
In the Izyum direction, Russian occupiers tried to resume the offensive but were unsuccessful.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya areas, Russian occupiers continued to focus on capturing the settlements of Rubizhne, Popasna, Troitske, Avdiivka, Marinka, Krasnohorivka, and preparing for an offensive that may begin in the coming days in the direction of Sievierodonetsk and Velyka Novosilka.
With the support of aircraft and artillery, a Russian enemy continues to storm the city of Mariupol.
South Buh direction. During the day, a Russian enemy concentrated its efforts on maintaining the occupied positions in the area of settlement Oleksandrivka. It is trying to fight to reach the administrative border of the Kherson region.

00:50 Head of Chernihiv Regional Military Administration Viacheslav Chaus

In the Village of Yahidne in the Chernihiv region, the Russian military kept hostage more than 150 people at one time in a small basement of a school. People were dying, but the invaders did not allow to bury them, so bodies remained in the basement together with the living.

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19:33 head of Kharkiv regional administration Oleh Syniehubov

On Sunday evening, the Russian troops launched an attack on Slobidskyi district of Kharkiv. At least 23 people including children were injured, there are casualties. The casualty report will be updated.

19:30 head of Mykolayiv regional administration Vitaliy Kim

At least one civilian was killed, and 14 more were injured as Russia launched an attack on Mykolayiv on April 3.

19:20 Suspilne, Ukraine’s public broadcaster

In Balakliya, Kharkiv region, the Russian forces fired at an evacuation bus sent to pick up hospital medics and patients. The bus driver was killed.

17:33 Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova

The bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from retaken areas of Kyiv region.

13:47 head of Donetsk regional administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

As many as 120,000 people remain in Mariupol. Ninety per cent of the city is destroyed.

12:19 Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba

Bucha massacre was deliberate. Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs demands devastating sanctions to be imposed on Russia immediately.

11:45 Kakhovka.info

In Kakhovka, Kherson region, citizens rallied to protest the occupation. The Russian troops opened fire on civilians and used stun grenades to break up the rally.

11:21 mayor of Lozova Serhiy Zelenskyi

Six civilians were wounded as Russia launched attacks on Lozova, in Kharkiv region, all in serious condition. Four people were wounded in the first attack, and two in the second attack.

09:30 Suspilne, mayor of Irpin Oleksandr Markushyn

At least 200 civilians were killed under the Russian occupation in Irpin, in Kyiv region.

“We do not know the exact number of casualties. Citizens buried them near apartment buildings, schools, and in parks. The toll exceeds 200,” Markushyn said.

07:06 mayor of Odesa Hennadiy Trukhanov

Russia conducted an air strike on Odesa. Ukraine’s air defense system downed part of the missiles. The attack caused fire in a number of areas. There were no casualties, preliminary reports said.

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23:27 AFP, mayor of Bucha Anatoliy Fedoruk

Almost 300 people were buried in a mass grave discovered in Bucha after Russian troops retreated. The heavily destroyed town’s streets are littered with corpses, the mayor said.

21:45 first deputy head of Poltava regional administration Dmytro Lunin

Russia conducted a missile strike on the Kremenchuk oil refinery and nearby fuel storage facilities. The strike destroyed the infrastructure of the plant. The refinery stopped operating. There is no threat of an environmental disaster.

The Russian troops earlier conducted a missile strike on Myrhorod. The missile strike damaged an airfield runway and infrastructure, and caused fire at a fuel depot. There is no casualty report.

17:38 head of Kharkiv regional administration Oleh Syniehubov

Russia’s strike damaged a hospital in Balakliya. About 70 patients and medics require immediate evacuation.

16:58 Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar

The Ukrainian troops retake entire Kyiv region. “Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel and the whole Kyiv region were liberated from the invader,” Malyar said.

15:55 head of Dnipropetrovsk regional administration Valentyn Riznichenko

Russia conducted missiles strikes on Pavlohrad district. A missile damaged a stretch of railway track and power lines. Rail cars exploded. There were no casualties, first reports say. Another missile hit an open site. One person was wounded.

In Dnipro, Russian missiles heavily damaged an infrastructure facility. Two people were wounded. In Kryvyi Rih, a missile hit a gas station. There were no casualties.

13:59 head of Sumy regional administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi

The deputy head of the Novoslobidska hromada was liberated from captivity. “Oleksiy Shybayev, deputy head of the Novoslobidska hromada is alive! He is now with the territorial defense of Bilopillya,” Zhyvytskyi said.

The Russian troops captured Shybayev on April 1 at a Russian checkpoint near Peresepky village as he accompanied humanitarian aid.

12:45 State-run nuclear company Energoatom

Four civilians wounded as the Russian troops fired on a rally and used stun grenades to break up the demonstration in Enerhodar.

A series of loud explosions were earlier heard in the city. On Saturday morning, people rallied in support of Ukraine. As the rally ended, the Russian troops started to drag the protesters into military vehicles.

12:27 Livyi Bereh

Photographer and documentary maker Maks Levin was found dead. He leaves behind his wife, four sons, and parents. Maksym was last seen alive on March 13, when he went to Huta Mezhyhirska with Oleksiy Chernyshov, a service member and former photographer. Levin was documenting the consequences of the Russian aggression in the village. They left the car and headed toward the village of Moshchun. Connection was lost with them.

The Vyshhorod district prosecutor’s office announced in a statement that it is investigating Levin’s death for a potential violation of the laws and customs of war, CPJ said. “According to preliminary information, unarmed Maks Levin was killed by soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces with two firearm shots,” the statement reads.

09:48 Tavriyska hromada, Zaporizhzhia region

Russia abducted the mayor of Tavriysk. Whereabouts of Tavriysk mayor Mykola Rizak remain unknown since April 1. He was detained by Russian military.

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21:28 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Russia kills civilians! On April 1, Russian shelling in the Donetsk region killed seven people.

Russian troops struck with three missiles from the Iskander missile system based on the territory of Crimea.

20:35 Prime Minister Denis Shmygal

The sowing campaign has already started in 21 regions of Ukraine.

19:15 President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola

The EP President promised Ukraine a quick recognition as a candidate for EU membership.

“We will recognize Ukraine as a candidate for EU membership officially and quickly. I promise you this on behalf of the European Parliament”, Mezzola said at a joint briefing with Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk in Kyiv.

She stressed that Russia’s pretensions on Ukraine, its freedom and territory are pretensions on the whole of Europe and the current order in the world. The head of the European Parliament also assured that European partners would make every effort to rebuild Ukrainian cities and villages after the war that had suffered devastating bombardments from the aggressor .

18:33 Evropeiska PravdaFrench President Emmanuel Macron met at the Elysee Palace with the mayor of the temporarily occupied Melitopol Ivan Fedorov, released from Russian captivity

18:25 Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko

As a result of the exchange of prisoners in the Zaporizhzhia region 86 Ukrainian servicemen were released, including 15 women.

18:24 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on April 1, 2022.

The thirty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues.

The Russian Federation continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

The withdrawal of separate units from the territory of Kyiv and Chernihiv oblasts continues, as well as the regrouping of enemy troops, presumably to create strike groups in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions.
According to available information, in the territory of the Republic of Belarus, in the Gomel Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, allegedly “wounded” servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation who received significant doses of radiation during their stay in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.
In temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region, in the city of Energodar, the Russian occupiers continue to detain residents. They are suspected of organizing pro-Ukrainian actions and preparing sabotage against the invaders. Employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation are interrogating them using psychological and physical pressure.
According to available information, the so-called referendum is planned for April 4 in the city of Tokmak by the Russian occupiers. In particular, the occupation administration has already notified the locals about this event.
The city of Melitopol is temporarily controlled by the military and the enemy’s Rosguard. Occupiers continue to place artillery systems among the residential quarters, from which it fires in the Zaporizhzhia direction.
The occupiers did not give up the idea of introducing the educational process in educational institutions according to their own standards and in Russian in April. Educators who agree to teach subjects are promised a monetary reward. Also, the occupiers continue to try to distribute so-called “humanitarian aid” to local residents. At the same time, they appropriate Ukrainian humanitarian aid coming from the city of Zaporizhzhia.
In the temporarily occupied Shchastia in the Luhansk region, all attempts by the Russians to restore the thermal power plant, which suffered significant damage as a result of hostilities, were in vain, because qualified specialists left the village.
In Stanytsia Luhanska, Russian invaders are conducting propaganda activities. In particular, employees of the occupation administration work with low-income families registered with social services and distribute so-called “humanitarian aid”.
Russian occupation forces leaving the city of Bucha mined civilian buildings, infrastructure, and areas within the settlement.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defence Forces, are repelling the aggressor and conducting counterattacks in certain areas, liberating Ukrainian cities and villages.

16:52 Spokesman for the Ministry of Defence Oleksandr Motuzianyk

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “does not confirm or deny” Russia’s accusations of the fire in Belgorod. “I want to emphasize that as of today, the Ukrainian state is conducting a defense operation to repel Russian armed aggression on the territory of Ukraine. And this does not mean that Ukraine should be responsible for all miscalculations, for all catastrophes and events that occur in the Russian Federation,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense.

Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine warned that the Russian authorities could resort to provocations on its territory to justify the decision to “continue a protracted, exhausting war.”

14:43 Ukrinform

Russian invaders fired on all hospitals in the Luhansk region. Currently, all settlements in the region are being bombed.

According to a Ukrinform correspondent, this was stated by the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhiy Haidai online at the Ukraine Media Center Kyiv.

14:30 Ukrainska Pravda

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba denies rumours that some Western partners are allegedly putting pressure on Kyiv, calling for certain concessions from Russia in negotiations to end the war. According to European Pravda, he said this during a conversation with the media in Poland.

14:16 Suspilne

Oleh Berehovyi, a deputy of the Ivankivka village council, published a photo from the village of Ivankiv in the Kyiv region liberated from Russian troops. He added that the Armed Forces of Ukraine also freed the settlements of Orane, Khocheva, and Olizarivka.

13:52 Commissioner for Human Rights of Ukraine Liudmyla Denisova according to Ukrinform

Student and volunteer Anastasia Tahirova, who was carrying humanitarian aid to Chernihiv, died when her car was fired upon by Russians.

13:50 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 12.00 on April 1, 2022.

The thirty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues.

The Russian Federation continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. The Russian enemy continues to launch a systematic missile, bomb, and airstrikes on critical infrastructure, government buildings, and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

The Russian occupying forces are regrouping and are likely to focus on an offensive operation in the Eastern Operational Zone.
There is a partial withdrawal of units of the Russian occupying forces from the Polissya and Siversky directions. At the same time, the enemy is preparing to move additional units (reserves) of the Eastern Military District to conduct hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.
In the Volyn direction, units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus are taking measures to strengthen the protection of the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
The Russian enemy did not carry out offensive operations in the Polissya direction. The main efforts of the Russian occupiers are aimed at defending the previously occupied borders, regrouping and withdrawing troops to the territory of the Republic of Belarus to restore combat capability. To ensure the withdrawal of its units, the Russian enemy mines the terrain and infrastructure and uses artillery.
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine restored control over the settlements of Demydiv, Dymer, Lytvynivka, Gavrylivka, Kozarovychi, Zhovtneve, Hlybivka, Yasnohorodka, Talakun, Sukoluchchya, Lypivka, Gavronshchyna, Makovyshche, Mykolaivka, Khmilna.
In the northern direction, the Russian enemy continues to blockade the city of Chernihiv. At the same time, there is a movement of troops of the Central Military District to areas located at a short distance from the state border of Ukraine.
After the departure of the enemy, the Armed Forces of Ukraine took control of the settlements of Rudnya, Shevchenkove, Bobryk, Stara Basan, Nova Basan, Makiyivka, Pohreby, Bazhanivka, Volodymyrivka, Shnyakivka, Salne, Sofiyivka, Gavrylivka.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to blockade Kharkiv and carry out artillery shelling of the city. Additional delivery of ammunition for artillery units is recorded.
In the Izyum direction, the Russian enemy continues to control Izyum and hold pontoon crossings across the Siversky Donets River in order to ensure offensive operations. During the day, the enemy fought in the direction of the settlement of Mala Komyshuvakha, stopped, without success.
It is likely that the Russian enemy will strengthen the grouping of occupation troops in the Izium direction at the expense of separate units of the 1st Tank Army and 20th Combined Arms Army.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian enemy continues to carry out fire and assault operations in some areas. Continues to strike airstrikes on settlements.
The main efforts are focused on taking control of the settlements of Popasna and Rubizhne, as well as establishing full control over the city of Mariupol.
In the South Buh area, units of the occupying forces continue to fire under artillery on the positions of Ukrainian troops. In order to improve the tactical situation, the Russian enemy tried to conduct offensive operations in the direction of the village of Oleksandrivka.

13:32 Suspilne

According to the correspondent of Suspilne, Georgian activists are spreading truthful information about Russia’s war in Ukraine through hidden advertisements among visiting Russians and Belarusians.

13:30 Ukrainska Pravda

According to the representative of the Estonian carrier company, some residents of Mariupol who were forcibly deported to Russia managed to come to Estonia. Rait Remmel, a representative of LuxExpress management, tells this in a comment to the Estonian broadcaster ERR.

13:14 State Specialized Enterprise “Chornobyl NPP”

The situation at Chornobyl NPP on April 1st, 2022

We officially notify you that on March 31, at approx. 8:00 p.m., the Russian occupiers left the Chornobyl NPP site. The access routes to the industrial site have been taken under the control of the ChNPP staff.

On April 1, at 7:00 a.m., a heavy military machine, in particular a tank, was seen within the territory of the Exclusion Zone adjacent to administrative buildings (“Ostriv”). The tank moved in the direction of Chornobyl town.

As of now, the radiation situation at the ChNPP site is without changes. The monitored parameters of the equipment are within the boundaries set by the technological regulations.

Operating personnel who took a shift on March 20 continues to ensure nuclear and radiation safety.

13:00 Commissioner for Human Rights of Ukraine Liudmyla Denisova

As of 10 o’clock on April 1, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need confirmation, 153 children died (+5 per day) and 245 children (+12 per day) were injured since the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

It is impossible to establish the actual number of dead and wounded children due to the fact that the occupying forces are actively fighting in Ukrainian cities.

In Hostomel, the occupiers shot a car with a woman and a child. She drove only 700 meters from the house. The mother died on the spot from her injuries, and an uncontrolled car crashed into the store.
A woman from the Kyiv region saved two children during the shelling of a car in which she and her friends were trying to escape. Three friends of the family died on the spot. The woman managed to get out of the burning car and get the children from there – her ten-month-old daughter and her friend’s three-year-old son.
In Marinka, Krasnohorivka, and Novomykhailivka, the enemy used phosphorous shells again. As a result of the shelling, 11 people were injured, including 5 children. Everyone is receiving medical care.
As a result of artillery shelling in the Chernihiv region, two children were injured.

To date, 859 educational institutions have been damaged by bombing and shelling. 83 of them were completely destroyed.

The actions of the Russian occupation forces violated the right of children to life, which is enshrined in Article 6 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The killing of children and the shelling of peaceful settlements are crimes against humanity and war crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation of Human Rights Violations during Russia’s Military Invasion of Ukraine and the expert mission set up by the OSCE participating States under the Moscow Mechanism to take into account these war crimes and crimes against humanity and human rights in Ukraine.

12:55 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

The Russians are discrediting Wikipedia to convince the population that any information about the war in Ukraine is fake. Roskomnadzor has been trying to fight Wikipedia since the first days of the Russian-Ukrainian war, namely the article “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine (2022)”. It threatens to impose an administrative fine of up to 4 million rubles “for failure to remove unreliable socially significant materials, as well as other prohibited information aimed at misinformation of Russian users.”

12:43 Head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhii Haidai

The enemy is mining the central part of Lysychansk. Today, patrol officers found mines on Peremohy Avenue, which were probably installed by the Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups.

12:30 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The occupiers use Ukrainian children as a human shields when moving columns of equipment. According to residents, Russian soldiers took local children hostage and put them in trucks in the village of Novyi Bykiv, Chernihiv region. Moreover, the occupiers are using children as hostages as a guarantee that the local population will not give the coordinates of the enemy’s movement to Ukrainian defenders. Such incidents are recorded in Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions. Ukrainian side and international institutions recorded cases of inhumane treatment of children, which will pass information to international criminal courts. The occupiers will be held accountable for every war crime committed.

12:23 Bucha City Council

The Russians mined the territory of the Delicia confectionery factory and poisoned the cookies.

12:02 National Police of Ukraine

Police delivering humanitarian aid to Marinka came under fire from occupying forces. Despite this, officers managed to hand over part of the food kits to the residents.

11:43 National Union of Journalists of Ukraine

The head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Starukh, in an interview with TV5 assured that the authorities are trying to do everything possible to release journalist Iryna Dubchenko. According to the official, the main hope is to exchange prisoners as soon as possible.

10:57 Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov according to Ukrainska Pravda

The Russians are running their Internet line to the occupied Melitopol from Crimea.

“Today they are bringing their fiber from Crimea to the city to completely block the Internet. We know that Russia is not the World Wide Web, but a cut-off blocked Internet. And they are now trying to block information. The telephone and mobile networks have been blocked for almost a week, and there is no Internet. This is done to throw residents into an information vacuum,” Fedorov said.

10:53 Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Maliar according to Suspilne

Russia is transporting missile systems to the Gomel region of Belarus.

“Now we see that missile systems are being sent to the Gomel region, the enemy is trying to concentrate them there, obviously this is due to plans to carry out missile strikes or use them there as a tool of blackmail and intimidation. Therefore, Belarus continues to be actively used by Russia,” said Maliar.

According to her, the Russian army has not abandoned any of its goals, even the withdrawal of troops from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions is “not a voluntary withdrawal, but the result of the work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

“The enemy does not abandon its plans to completely capture Donetsk and Luhansk regions. It is also encroaching on the Kharkiv region and trying to strengthen its position there, regroup troops,” she added.

10:19 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Information about the Russian invasion

The operational situation on the diplomatic front as of 10:00, April 1

For 36 days in a row, Ukraine has been fiercely resisting Russia’s armed aggression on all fronts, including diplomatic.

Sanctions

The US Department of Commerce will soon impose new sanctions on 120 military, aviation, and maritime entities in Russia and Belarus.

World’s support

Following a donors’ conference convened by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, the Allies agreed to provide more assistance to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities.
The President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola has arrived in Ukraine.
The World Association of Nuclear Operators relocates all Ukrainian nuclear power plants to the Paris Center. Before that, Ukrainian nuclear power plants have been part of the WANO Moscow center since 1989.

Deputinization of the world

The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau said that the countries of the G20 should reconsider Russia’s participation.
The Latvian Seimas has banned the use of symbols that denote military aggression and crimes against Ukraine used by Russia.
The Estonian government has approved a draft amendment to the Penal Code, according to which the public display of hostile symbols of the Russian Federation will be classified as a crime

Humanitarian aid

In Lithuania, the charity organization “Maisto bankas” sent 20.27 tons of food to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Czech Ministry of the Interior is handing over $ 230,000 worth of medical supplies.
A charity auction was held in Prague, raising more than 1 million euros for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

10:00 State Emergency Service of Ukraine

The bodies of three more victims were pulled out from under the rubble of the building of the Mykolaiv Regional Administration as of 10:00 on April 1. Thus, the total number of victims is 27.

8:41 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Russia is spreading a new fake: Russia and Ukraine will reach an agreement, so the “special operation” on the territory of Ukraine will be completed soon. It is made in the background of the partial “withdrawal” of Russian units from the territory of Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.

First, Russia is not “withdrawing” troops, the occupiers are fleeing because they have received fierce resistance from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and our population. In addition, the enemy is transferring its forces to the Donbas and preparing a breakthrough on the territory of our country from there.
Secondly, no agreements have been reached between Ukraine and Russia. All stories about the alleged end of the “special operation” are just an attempt to avoid further sanctions. The occupiers are trying to organize incomprehensible structures in the temporarily occupied territories and put the ruble into circulation there.

8:34 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Almost 400 children have been suffered in Ukraine since the beginning of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. Of these, 153 were killed and more than 245 were injured.

Work is underway to establish all data on child victims in places of active hostilities and in the territories temporarily occupied by the enemy. In particular, in the city of Mariupol, in some areas of Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Luhansk regions.

The most affected children were in Kyiv – 73, Donetsk – 65, Kharkiv – 53, Chernihiv – 43, Mykolaiv – 30, Luhansk – 31, Zaporizhzhia – 22, Kherson – 29, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15 regions.

7:40 Interfax.ru

On April 1, a fire broke out at an oil depot in the Russian city of Belgorod, 40 km from the Ukrainian border. Kremlin-controlled media quoted Belgorod region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov as saying that the fire “was caused by an air strike by two helicopters of Ukrainian troops that entered Russian territory at low altitude.”

6:43 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on April 1, 2022 (Video)

The thirty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion has begun.

The units of the Russian occupation forces continue to partially withdraw from the north of Kyiv oblast towards the state border with the Republic of Belarus. It is noted the movement of joint columns of equipment of different quantities of Russian enemy. The convoys also include civilian vehicles (trucks, buses, minibuses, cars) that were stolen by Russian invaders during the temporary occupation of the territories. In addition, the enemy carries out the removal of looted property.
In the temporarily occupied territories, the Russian enemy continues its illegal actions, restricting the movement of civilians, using the houses and apartments of local residents to accommodate personnel, holding local residents and activists as hostages. Marauding and violence against Ukrainian citizens continue.
In some temporarily occupied by the Russian enemy areas, the Russian occupiers are trying to force entrepreneurs to switch to paying for goods and services in Russian rubles.
The Joint Forces of Ukraine repulsed 7 enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions during the day. Ukrainian warriors destroyed 3 tanks, 2 armoured personnel carriers, 2 units of motor vehicles, and 2 artillery systems. An Orlan-10 UAV was also shot down.
Ukraine’s Defence Forces continue to successfully carry out their tasks, pursue the retreating enemy, break through the occupiers’ defensive positions and gradually liberate Ukrainian lands.

0:48 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 24.00 on March 31, 2022.

The thirty-sixth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion is ending.

The Russian enemy, having suffered significant losses in personnel and equipment, did not succeed in blocking and capturing the city of Kyiv. The occupiers were forced to temporarily abandon this task.
The Russian enemy continues to strengthen groups of troops at the expense of units of the Eastern Military District. It is trying to form occupation administrations within the temporarily occupied districts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts.
In view of the above, the Russian enemy is likely to try to maintain a military presence in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine in the near future.
In the Volyn direction, it is without changes.
In the Polissya direction, the Russian enemy is regrouping troops. It brought up to 5 BTGs to the territory of the Republic of Belarus. After the combat capability of the withdrawn units is restored, they are expected to be moved to other areas.
In the Northern direction, the occupiers are withdrawing part of the troops under the cover of individual units of the 1st Tank Army.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy continues to blockade the city of Kharkiv, launching artillery shelling to destroy the city’s infrastructure and residential areas. In the area south of the city of Izyum, the Russian enemy is trying to break the resistance of Ukrainian defenders, expel units of the Defence Forces from their positions and continue the offensive in the direction of Slovyansk. It is not successful.
The Russian enemy did not conduct active offensive operations in the Donetsk direction. The enemy focused on continuing the assault on the city of Mariupol. It expanded the grouping of the 58th Combined Arms Army by introducing the BTGr, which was made up of servicemen transferred from the 7th Military Base (Abkhazia).
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy tried to carry out offensive actions in the direction of the settlement of Alexandrovka in the Mykolayiv region.
The Defensive Forces of Ukraine continues to conduct a defence operation in the Eastern, Southeastern, and Northeastern directions.
The Russian enemy continues to fire, which is scattered in the area of the settlements of Izium, Kamianka, Tykhotske, in order to prevent its further advance in the directions of the settlements of Sloviansk and Barvinkove.
Attempts by the Russian enemy to bypass the positions of our troops in the areas of Popasna and Novotoshkivske were repulsed.
The forces of the 36th Independent Marines Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with units of other components of the Defence Forces of Ukraine, maintain the circular defence of the Hero city of Mariupol.
The enemy’s offensive in the area of Marinka was repulsed.
The group of forces and means of defence of the city of Kyiv continues to conduct search operations in the Zhytomyr and Nizhyn areas.
Stabilization operations are being carried out in other areas, and territorial defence tasks are being carried out.
Ukraine’s Defence Forces continue to successfully carry out their tasks, pursue the retreating enemy, break through the Russian occupiers’ defensive positions and gradually liberate Ukrainian lands.

00:11 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine 60th Separate Infantry Brigade, which is part of the group of troops “South”, liberated the following settlements in the Kherson: Novovorontsovka, Mala Shesternia, Novohryhorivka, Topolyne, Kniazivka, Krasnivka, Svobodne, Kamianka, Pryhiria, Kochubieivka, Orlove.

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