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20 April 2026
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has thanked Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for refusing to allow Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to use their airspace for a visit to Russia.
In temporarily occupied Sevastopol, an oil depot in the Kozacha Bay area has been on fire for the third consecutive day after being hit by drones on the night of Saturday, April 18.
Defense Ministry adviser Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov said that Russians attempted to kill him using a jet-powered drone.
Over the past day, Russian troops carried out 1,222 attacks on the Donetsk region, damaging 14 civilian objects. Preliminary reports indicate there were no casualties.
The number of people killed in the shooting in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv on April 18 has increased to seven.
In the evening prior, machine-gun fire and anti-aircraft artillery explosions were heard in various districts of temporarily Russian-occupied Sevastopol during an air raid alert.
On the night of April 20, the Russian army struck railway infrastructure facilities in the Kharkiv region; no casualties were reported.
A large-scale fire broke out in the tank farm of an oil refinery in the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, as a result of a nighttime drone strike.
Fighters of the special unit Prymary of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine carried out successful strikes on two Russian large landing ships in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Russian forces carried out nearly 20 strikes using drones, aerial bombs, and artillery against Kryvyi Rih, as well as the Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Six people were wounded.
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Over the past day, April 19, a total of 206 combat engagements took place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops on the frontline.
Three people were injured overnight on April 20 after Russian drones struck a residential building in Velykyi Burluk, Kharkiv region.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 113 out of 142 drones launched by Russian forces since the evening of April 19.
Russia’s total combat losses in its war against Ukraine have reached approximately 1,319,270 personnel from February 24, 2022, to April 20, 2026, including 1,050 troops lost over the past day.
Ukraine’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will focus on intensifying efforts to establish a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine during the Assembly’s spring plenary session, which begins on April 20 in Strasbourg.
A Russian drone struck an infrastructure facility in Kryvyi Rih, damaging residential buildings.
The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on Monday to discuss the latest Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities.
Kyiv region is under attack by Russian strike drones; in the Brovary district, homes are damaged and one person is injured.
The Irish government is preparing special payments for Ukrainians who return to their home country and is planning to scale back its accommodation program, Irish Migration Minister Colm Brophy has said.
Residential buildings, cars, and power lines were damaged in Mykolaiv as Russian drones attacked the city.
Authorities in the Kherson community are urging parents to evacuate their children from dangerous suburban areas as Russian shelling intensifies.
The head of the National Police of Ukraine, Ivan Vyhivskyi, has said that more than 100,000 officers currently serve in the force, with around 9,000 fighting on the front lines.
Ukrainian scientists from the “Akademik Vernadsky” station have shared a video of their underwater encounter with one of Antarctica's top predators—the leopard seal.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi emphasized that the Military Law Enforcement Service (VSP) is much more than a body of control or response: the development of its potential has shown that it is capable of acting not only as a law enforcement structure, but also as an effective combat component.
Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Teresa Ribera stated that the election defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is a warning for conservative European leaders who may be tempted to pursue closer cooperation with U.S. President Donald Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
19 April 2026
Ukraine has reached agreements on ten-year cooperation deals with three key countries in the Gulf region – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar – and has received interest from 11 additional states.
The International Monetary Fund has shown understanding regarding the sensitivity of introducing VAT taxation for sole proprietors, according to Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko.
Russian forces shelled the city of Izium in the Kharkiv region using a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), injuring three civilians.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that Ukraine is preparing new security cooperation agreements with international partners next week.