🟡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.
