Massive Russian strike on Kyiv: death toll rises to 9, total casualties reach 63
The enemy attack on Kyiv killed 9 people, injured 63, hospitalized 42, including 6 children.
The enemy attack on Kyiv killed 9 people, injured 63, hospitalized 42, including 6 children.
Border guards of the “Gart” brigade eliminated 10 Russian soldiers and destroyed an enemy communication antenna near Vovchansk, Kharkiv region.
On Wednesday, April 23, Russian forces dropped three aerial bombs on Chernihivka, a village in the Dobropillia community of Donetsk region, injuring one person and damaging seven houses.
23 April 2025
Since the beginning of the day, as many as 124 combat clashes have taken place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops.
On April 23, units of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces, carried out a fire attack on the production of attack UAVs in Russia, at a distance of more than 1000 km from the state border of Ukraine.
In Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk region, the number of people injured when an FPV drone hit a bus carrying employees of a company has increased to 51, four of them are in serious condition.
Yesterday, on April 22, Russian troops sent two aerial bombs to Zaporizhzhia. Two versions of why this could have happened and why the defense system did not work on the approach to the city are currently being studied.
In Nikopol, a woman and two children aged three and one were injured by a Russian drone strike.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said that Ukrainian drones are becoming more resistant to Russian electronic warfare.
The soldiers of the 5th separate assault brigade of the Kyiv Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the Kornet anti-tank missile system, the Credo-M1 portable ground reconnaissance station and the positions of the Russian invaders in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, using FPV drones.
Russia has reported a UAV attack in Tatarstan, where a facility in the Alabuga special economic zone manufactures kamikaze drones.
Four civilians sustained injuries in Kherson due to Russian strikes. A 67-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman were wounded by explosives dropped from a Russian drone, while a 39-year-old man and a 78-year-old woman suffered injuries from artillery fire.
In Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk region, the number of injuries from an FPV drone strike on a bus carrying company employees has risen to 49.
First Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko has said that the principled position at the meeting in London is that Ukraine is ready to negotiate but not to surrender.
Ukraine insists on an immediate, full, and unconditional ceasefire, President Volodymyr Zelensky has emphasized.
In Toretsk, Donetsk region, soldiers of Ukraine’s 49th Carpathian Sich Separate Assault Battalion captured an African mercenary fighting on the Russian side.
As a result of yesterday's Russian airstrike, 14 people remain hospitalized in Zaporizhzhia, four of them in serious condition. A total of 42 people were injured in the attack.
Russian forces have increased the number of artillery and air strikes in southern Ukraine.
Taking advantage of a ceasefire, the enemy has transferred equipment and personnel from Crimea to Zaporizhzhia region. Ukraine’s Defense Forces expect intensified assault operations by Russian troops along the entire southern frontline.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 67 Russian drones, and another 47 enemy UAVs were lost.
Yesterday, April 22, Russian invaders killed four residents of Donetsk region.
Seven private houses were damaged in Brovary district of Kyiv region as a result of an attack by Russian drones on the night of April 23.
In the Kharkiv region, six people were injured in Russian strikes over the past 24 hours.
In Marhanets, Dnipro region, an enemy drone hit a bus carrying employees of a company on their way to work - 9 dead, 30 wounded.
On April 22, 144 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded at the frontline yesterday.
On April 22, 12 people, including a child, sustained injuries in the Kherson region due to Russian aggression.
Russian forces launched a drone attack on Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing seven people and injuring another six.
In the early hours of April 23, a Russian drone struck an apartment building in the Industrialnyi district of Kharkiv.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to April 23, 2025 amount to nearly 944,270 invaders, including another 1,210 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.