War update: 165 clashes on front lines in past 24 hours, most in Pokrovsk sector
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.
22 April 2025
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.
In Kherson region, Russian aggression claimed the life of one person and left seven others injured over the past 24 hours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Kerch, located in temporarily occupied Crimea, guerrillas have documented the transport of missiles for air defense systems.
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.
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 dictator Vladimir Putin has admitted that during missile strikes on Sumy and Kryvyi Rih, civilian infrastructure was intentionally targeted.
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.
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 total combat losses of Russian troops since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to April 21, 2025, amount to about 941,770 people, including 670 people in the last day.
Russian troops attacked Mykolaiv with missiles at dawn on April 21, without causing any damage or casualties.
The Russian information operation aimed at accusing Ukraine of breaking the “ceasefire” has failed, including in the Western information field.
20 April 2025
Since the beginning of the day, the Russian army has violated the ceasefire declared by Vladimir Putin more than 2,000 times.
On Sunday, April 20, in the morning, the bodies of a man and a woman were removed from the rubble of a house in Kostiantynivka.
A peat fire has been extinguished for two days near the village of Hostomel, Bucha district, Kyiv region.
From April 14 to 20, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have destroyed three Iskander-K cruise missiles and 696 Russian drones of various types used in attacks against Ukraine.
Following a ballistic missile attack on Kharkiv by Russian forces on Friday, April 18, 17 individuals remain hospitalized, including a 12-year-old boy, a 15-year-old girl, and a 5-year-old boy, all in moderate condition.
On April 19, the Ukrainian military recorded 127 combat engagements with Russian forces, with the heaviest fighting taking place in the Pokrovsk sector.
As of April 20, 2025, the total combat losses of the Russian Armed Forces since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, are estimated at approximately 941,100 personnel, including 950 troops eliminated over the past day alone.
19 April 2025
On Saturday, April 19, Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ceasefire in the war against Ukraine during Easter.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has promoted Colonel Vitaliy Levchenko to the rank of brigadier general, the head of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Late on Friday night, April 18, the Russian army launched rocket attacks on the Odesa region, damaging civilian infrastructure.
Late on Friday night, April 18, the Russian army launched rocket attacks on the Odesa region, damaging civilian infrastructure.
In the Kharkiv region, seven people were injured or suffered an acute stress reaction during the day.
On the night of April 19, Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully shot down 33 of 87 Russian drones, while an additional 36 disappeared from radar.
On Friday, April 18, 162 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops were recorded on the frontline, with the Pokrovsk sector experiencing the fiercest fighting. Ukrainian defenders repelled 54 assault and offensive operations by the aggressor in this sector.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to April 19, 2025 amount to nearly 940,150 invaders, including another 1,180 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.