All victims of Russian attack in Kharkiv receiving assistance – Zelensky
As of the evening of April 18, recovery efforts are ongoing in Kharkiv following a Russian missile strike. All victims are receiving necessary aid.
18 April 2025
As of the evening of April 18, recovery efforts are ongoing in Kharkiv following a Russian missile strike. All victims are receiving necessary aid.
In the Kramatorsk sector, Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully destroyed a Russian Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, T-80 and T-72 tanks, as well as an MT-LB armored vehicle using drones.
In Kherson, an enemy drone attack ignited a fire on the balcony of a multi-story residential building.
A satellite image has confirmed that Ukrainian drones struck a barracks on the grounds of the 112th Missile Brigade in Shuya, Russia's Ivanovo region -- a unit which, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, launched the April 13 missile attack on Sumy that killed 36 people.
The number of people injured in this morning's Russian missile attack on Kharkiv has increased to 103, including eight children.
Ukrainian border guards from the Steel Border Brigade of the Offensive Guard, together with fellow defenders from other branches of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, repelled a Russian assault and destroyed enemy armored vehicles in the Sumy sector.
Ukraine has received the bodies of another 909 fallen defenders as part of ongoing repatriation efforts.
In Kherson, in the morning, drones attacked the Dniprovsky district, wounding two men and a nurse.
An elderly man died in the Kherson region as a result of artillery shelling of the city of Beryslav.
Russian occupation forces, despite changing their tactics, failed to recapture any positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces on the southern front.
The number of victims of the Russian attack on the Osnovyansky district of Kharkiv has increased to 98.
In Kharkiv, rescuers extinguished a fire at a civilian enterprise that occurred as a result of a missile strike on the morning of April 18.
President Volodymyr Zelensky commented on Russian air strikes on Kharkiv and Sumy, calling them a mockery of people and cities.
A Russian missile strike on Kharkiv has left 74 people injured.
Ukrainian defense forces shot down three Iskander-K cruise missiles and 23 Shahed attack drones used by Russian troops in attacks on Ukraine since the evening of April 17. Additionally, ten enemy decoy UAVs failed to reach their targets.
Sumy rescuers showed their efforts to respond to the aftermath of this morning’s Russian strike on a bakery in the city.
More than 60 people have been injured following a missile attack by Russian forces on Kharkiv this morning.
On Thursday, April 17, 143 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops were recorded on the frontline, with the Pokrovsk sector experiencing the fiercest fighting.
Russian forces killed three civilians and injured six others in the Donetsk region on April 17
Russian forces carried out strikes on 44 settlements across the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, killing four people and injuring 25 others, including a child.
Russia suffered approximately 938,970 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and April 18, 2025, with 1,530 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
A Russian missile attack on Dnipro has caused damage to a fitness center, a hotel, and an office building.
The number of people injured in a Russian missile strike on Kharkiv has risen to 54, with one person killed in the attack.
Russia has launched another drone attack on Sumy, killing one person and damaging an industrial facility.
One person was killed and 26 others were injured, including a young child, in a Russian missile strike on Kharkiv.
Since the start of 2025, the Ukrainian Defense Forces have struck 4,910 Russian artillery systems.
Russian forces are continuing to construct so-called anti-drone corridors for the movement of military equipment, camouflaging them with netting.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) is intensifying patrols. The occupiers are focusing especially on identifying resistance and underground movements, as well as individuals involved in distributing propaganda materials or engaging in reconnaissance activities.
17 April 2025
On Thursday, April 17, two men conducting road repairs near the village of Stiyke in the Kherson region were killed in a Russian drone attack.
The number of victims from the combined Russian attack on Kherson's Tsentralnyi district on Thursday morning, April 17, has risen to six, with two fatalities reported.