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22 April 2025
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.
In the Kramatorsk sector of the front, fighters from the Phoenix unit of the Pomsta (Vengeance) brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine destroyed a VT-55A armored recovery vehicle, trucks, artillery guns, and fuel and lubricant storage depots belonging to the Russian invaders.
A Russian drone struck the grounds of a hospital in downtown Kherson, injuring six people. Another person was wounded when a drone attacked a car in Dniprovskyi district of the city.
As a result of Russian strikes on Kharkiv on April 22, the number of injured has increased to seven people.
The injury toll in a Russian airstrike on Zaporizhzhia has risen to 23, including four children.
The Russian army attacked Kharkiv with drones, the attack continues.
An educational institution was damaged in Zaporizhzhia, where explosions occurred around 11:30 a.m.
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.
In Odesa, a previously undetonated Shahed drone exploded while emergency crews were putting out fires following a Russian drone attack on the evening of April 21.
In Odesa, a previously undetonated Shahed drone exploded while emergency crews were putting out fires following a Russian drone attack on the evening of April 21.
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.
In the Bucha district, Kyiv region, six private homes and a countryside resort complex were damaged as a result of a Russian drone attack.
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.
Russian invaders launched drone attacks at Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, damaging a power line, residential buildings, and vehicles.
Over the past day, Russian invading forces launched 552 attacks at 12 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region.
Soldiers of the 15th Separate Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade Chornyi Lis (Black Forest) of the Ukrainian Ground Forces successfully struck a loading-launch vehicle and a launch vehicle of the Russian Buk-M2 multifunctional surface-to-air missile system.
The overall postoperative mortality rate among patients at Kharkiv Military Hospital stands at 0.1%, which is considered a relatively low figure.
The enemy attacked Odesa with strike drones. As a result of the attack, three people were injured, and civilian infrastructure was damaged, including residential buildings, an educational institution, and vehicles. Fires also broke out.
The Atesh partisan movement has called on Crimean residents to help gather information needed to destroy the Kerch (Crimean) Bridge.
21 April 2025
As of 13:00 on April 21, Russian forces carried out 3,000 shelling attacks and assault operations and dropped almost 90 aerial bombs.
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.
Ukraine maintains its proposal to refrain from striking at least civilian infrastructure. A lasting ceasefire must be the first step toward a reliable peace.
Russian forces have significantly escalated their use of banned chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops across the front lines in recent months.
In the Kupiansk sector of the front, soldiers of the 15th Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) have captured a group of Russian infantrymen.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has admitted that during missile strikes on Sumy and Kryvyi Rih, civilian infrastructure was intentionally targeted.
On April 21, Russian forces launched a drone attack at a logging enterprise in Semenivka community of Novhorod-Siverskyi district, Chernihiv region.
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.
The Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have successfully struck a place near the village of Tiotkino, Kursk region, from where the Russian military launches attack drones.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in cooperation with the police, detained a woman in the Khmelnytskyi region who was collecting intelligence for Russia to facilitate missile and drone strikes on military facilities in western Ukraine, particularly airfields.