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05 April 2026
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, met with sergeants and soldiers of airborne assault and assault units to discuss their needs, challenges, frontline perspectives, and supply issues.
In addition to daily air strikes, Russia conducted 14 large-scale combined attacks over the winter period.
Russian information resources have intensified the spread of narratives portraying Ukraine as a “terrorist state,” using reports of strikes on oil terminals, refineries in Ufa, and other facilities on Russian territory.
04 April 2026
During April 4, there were 128 combat engagements between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian troops. The enemy was most active in attempts to attack in the Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk directions.
Russian troops struck the Kovpakivskyi district of Sumy with unmanned aerial vehicles. A 52-year-old man was injured, and two cars were damaged.
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Russian forces carried out more than 50 attacks on three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region on Saturday, April 4, with the city of Nikopol suffering the most.
An exhibition titled "Target Destroyed: Sky of Kyiv Region" has opened in Kyiv at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.
The number of people injured in a Russian morning strike on a market in Nikopol has risen to 25, while five were killed.
Units of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck two radar stations, a Tor surface-to-air missile system, and an anti-aircraft installation of Russian forces in temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as in occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
In March 2026, nearly 400 cases were recorded of Russian forces using special munitions equipped with irritant chemical agents.
Russian troops struck Naftogaz Group facilities in the Poltava region, with no casualties reported.
In Kharkiv, a child was injured after an enemy drone fell in the Slobidskyi district.
At around 11:00, Russian forces hit a public transport stop in the Korablevskyi district of Kherson, resulting in one fatality and five injured.
Two launch sites for Shahed drones were hit in Navlya and at the Khalino airfield, located in Russia's Bryansk and Kursk regions.
The SSU, together with the UAV Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, carried out a second strike this month on the Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant in temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine hit railway fuel trains in the part of the Luhansk region temporarily occupied by Russian forces, as well as a Russian "Inokhodets" drone at the Kirovske airfield in Crimea.
In Kharkiv, the number of people affected by a UAV attack on the Nemyshlianskyi district has increased to five.
Russian forces attacked Nikopol with FPV drones, resulting in five deaths and 19 people wounded, including a 14-year-old girl.
The AFU are making changes to the content of their training for combating Russian unmanned aerial vehicles and are strengthening the technological component.
In Sumy, the number of casualties from the massive nighttime attack by Russian drones has increased to 13, including one child.
Residential buildings and vehicles were damaged in a Russian attack on the Cherkasy region overnight.
Four civilians were killed and 11 others injured in Russian shelling across the Kharkiv region over the past 24 hours.
In the early hours of April 4, drones attacked the city of Tolyatti in Russia's Samara region, triggering fires near two chemical plants – Tolyattikauchuk and KuibyshevAzot.
A fire that broke out in a three-story office and warehouse building in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district following a Russian drone attack early on April 4 has been extinguished.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 260 out of 286 drones launched by Russian invaders in an overnight attack that started on the evening of April 3.
In the Kherson region, one person was killed and 25 civilians were injured over the past day as a result of Russian attacks.
On the front line on April 3, as many as 157 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded.
In the Sumy region, three people were killed and 22 others injured over the past day as a result of Russian aggression.
As a result of falling debris from a Russian drone in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district, a fire broke out in an office building.