Ukrainian MFA on Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia: "Russia won’t stop until it is stopped"
Russia, which continues to deliberately kill Ukrainian civilians every day, will not stop until it is stopped.
22 April 2025
Russia, which continues to deliberately kill Ukrainian civilians every day, will not stop until it is stopped.
Russian forces have significantly intensified their fire activity in southern Ukraine following the so-called "Easter truce", increasing artillery shelling, FPV drone strikes, and kamikaze drone attacks.
The Russian army attacked Kharkiv with drones, the attack continues.
A massive assault by a combined group of Russian troops in the Zaporizhzhia sector was crushingly defeated.
Poland has commented on the “Easter truce,” noting that Ukraine knows Putin very well and appreciates his declarations of a ceasefire.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained another member of the Russian spy network exposed in March 2025, which was directing missile and drone strikes on Mykolaiv.
On the night of April 21-22, the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed 38 Russian drones, while an additional 16 decoy drones vanished from radar screens without causing any damage.
As many as 165 combat engagements were recorded on the front lines in Ukraine on April 21, with the highest number recorded in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Ukrainian language is a weapon of national resistance
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to April 22, 2025, amount to approximately 943,060 personnel, with 1,130 soldiers lost in the past 24 hours alone.
Russia is increasingly deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in its information warfare against Ukraine. Since the beginning of the year, 191 Russian information operations involving AI-generated content have been recorded on social media platforms.
Ukraine’s national pavilion at the World Expo 2025 in Japan’s Osaka has showcased a book published by the Kharkiv-based printing house, Faktor-Druk, which had re-opened following Russia’s missile attack on May 23, 2024.
A group of Russian activists in Washington, D.C. is planning to hold the first in several years "Immortal Regiment" march on May 3, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the so-called “Great Patriotic War”.
21 April 2025
On the evening of April 21, Russian forces launched strikes on the Kupiansk and Bohodukhiv districts of the Kharkiv region, killing one person and injuring another.
Russian forces have significantly escalated their use of banned chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops across the front lines in recent months.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has admitted that during missile strikes on Sumy and Kryvyi Rih, civilian infrastructure was intentionally targeted.
As early as Wednesday, representatives of Ukraine, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States will hold negotiations in London on an unconditional ceasefire, followed by the establishment of a real and lasting peace.
On April 21, Russian forces launched a drone attack at a logging enterprise in Semenivka community of Novhorod-Siverskyi district, Chernihiv region.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin stated that he will analyze Ukraine’s proposal to cease attacks on civilian infrastructure.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained five more pro-Russian online agitators operating in Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Among those detained is a 58-year-old former member of the banned "Nashi" party, previously led by ex-MP Yevhen Murayev.
The use of banned substances by the Russian military has become systematic: in particular, the enemy uses chemicals to “smoke” Ukrainian soldiers out of their shelters almost every day.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi discussed the situation in Sumy region and the build-up of combat capabilities with commanders and chiefs of military services.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on US President Donald Trump's statement about a possible peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine this week, said that Moscow allegedly remains open to finding a peaceful settlement.
Russian forces used an "Easter ceasefire" to bring in additional reserves and equipment in preparation for further assault operations.
Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere and Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, April 24.
Russian propagandists have produced a staged video in an attempt to discredit Ukrainian defenders
At nighttime on April 21, Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 42 Russian combat drones over the Ukrainian territory, while 47 other enemy UAVs (drone decoys) were lost from radar tracking without causing any damage.
The snap “Easter truce” proposed by Russia underscores the need for any ceasefire or peace agreement to be publicly available, officially agreed upon in advance by all parties, and to include robust monitoring mechanisms.
Over the past day, April 20, there were 96 combat clashes between Ukrainian defenders and Russian forces, with the heaviest fighting occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Russian information operation aimed at accusing Ukraine of breaking the “ceasefire” has failed, including in the Western information field.