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21 April 2023
NATO allies have already supplied certain types of combat aircraft to Ukraine, such as the Mig-29s provided by Poland, but discussions are underway among NATO allies and their partners to provide Ukraine with other types of aircraft.
An infrastructure facility was hit, and a fire broke out in Vinnytsia as a result of a nighttime drone attack. The fire at the facility has now been extinguished.
Russian invaders shelled the border and frontline settlements of the Kharkiv, Kupiansk, and Chuhuiv districts of the Kharkiv region yesterday.
The members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group will focus on three key issues during a meeting on Friday: air defense, ammunition and logistics.
The members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (the so-called Ramstein format) have already provided $55 billion in security assistance for Ukraine.
Ukrainian Air Force Commander, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk has inspected the combat positions of the Patriot air defense system in one sector.
Over the past day, April 20, the Russian army fired 75 times at 18 peaceful towns and villages in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, has reacted to yesterday's explosion in Belgorod, noting that the Russian army continues provocative shelling of its own cities in order to intimidate the civilian population and incite escalation.
The Ukrainian Air Force Command has specified that 12 Shahed-136/131 UAVs attacked Ukraine last night, and eight of them were destroyed.
Last night, Russian troops fired on a community in the Sumy region, causing no casualties or damage.
Checkpoints between Russia and temporarily occupied territories in eastern Ukraine significantly slow the supply of Russian ammunition to the front lines, but Moscow does not plan to stop their operation for security reasons.
Soldiers of the 79th separate airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces destroyed a Russian T-90 tank with a mine trawl.
The Slovenian government has decided to join the joint procurement of ammunition for Ukraine as part of the European Defense Agency (EDA) project, in which 23 EU member states and Norway already participate.
Ukraine's Western partners have trained more than 60,000 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, which is a great contribution.
One civilian has been killed and one injured in Russia’s shelling of the Donetsk region over the past day.
On the night of April 21, 2023, Russian troops shelled the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol district.
Russia has already lost about 185,050 troops in Ukraine (+630 over the past day).
On April 20, 2023, Russian troops attacked the Kherson region 63 times, having fired 247 projectiles.
On the night of April 21, 2023, Russia used 10 Shahed-136 drones to attack the territory of Ukraine. Eight of them were destroyed by Ukrainian defenders.
Russian troops are focusing efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka directions. Ukraine’s Defense Forces have repelled over 60 enemy attacks in the past 24 hours.
A married couple has been killed in Russia’s shelling of the Zaporizhzhia region. One more woman was reported injured.
20 April 2023
A group of 19 far-right Republicans on Thursday sent an official letter to President Joe Biden in which they laid out pro-Russian narratives and called on the U.S. government to stop sending military aid to Ukraine.
Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi has met with Chief of the National Armed Forces of Latvia, Lieutenant General Leonids Kalnins and emphasized the importance of strengthening Ukrainian air defense forces.
On Thursday, April 20, Russian troops struck the Velyka Pysarivka and Bilopillia communities in the Sumy region, firing 44 shells from various types of weapons.
The Russian army has shelled the Velykomykhailivka community in the Dnipropetrovsk region with heavy artillery fire.
Soldiers of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service have repelled two attacks by Russian troops in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, and neutralized at least nine invaders.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has arrived at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany where a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group will be held on Friday, April 21.
Russian troops are focusing efforts on conducting offensive actions in five directions, such as Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka and Shakhtarsk. Ukrainian defenders have repelled over 40 enemy attacks in the past 24 hours.
As part of the Contact Group on Ukraine's Defense meeting in the Ramstein format, a gathering of defense ministers of the countries that are members of the so-called tank coalition will be held on Friday, April 21.
Russian troops have opened fire on the Kherson region’s Beryslav. As a result, one civilian was injured, and power supply services were interrupted.