[Korrespondent] 22:52 The Turkish authorities have approved a roadmap to attract Russian tourists to the country under sanctions. In particular, it is planned to create a new airline for charter flights to resorts, writes the local edition of Sabah.
22:50 In the Kharkiv region, as a result of today's shelling by the Russians, ten people were killed, including one child, 11 more were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to him, during the day the invaders fired at the civilian infrastructure of Balakleya, Pesochin, there were heavy shelling in Zolochev, Dergachi. Izyum remains the hottest spot.
22:48 Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said that the country is ready to quickly abandon Russian oil and gas.
22:42 According to the UN, today in Ukraine a thousand hospitals are either in the zone of intense fighting or under occupation.
22:38 The head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Council, Nikolai Lukashuk, says that the region survived perhaps the most difficult day in 46 days of the war: the Russians fired more than ten missiles, only one of them was shot down.
21:53 The UK has handed over 177 power generators to Ukraine, the Department of Energy has announced. This is the second tranche - earlier Ukraine received 20 generators. London is expected to donate over 500 portable generators in total.
21:51 Klitschko on the situation in the capital: "The fact that the enemy has retreated from Kiev does not mean that he has given up his desire to capture the capital. Therefore, a further attempt by the orcs" to "take Kiev in two days" cannot be ruled out. And the capital should continue to be ready for defense."
21:49 Danilov said that the authorities are aware of the oligarchs, deputies of the current and previous convocations, Kiev developers who illegally left Ukraine during the war.
21:47 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said that some foreign guests visit Ukraine non-publicly, in particular, the visit of the former US Defense Minister took place on Saturday.
21:42 Updated exit poll data from France says that Macron won 28.5 percent of the vote, Le Pen - 24.2 percent.
21:39 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, said that the death toll from a missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk had risen to 57 people. 109 people were injured - people with minor injuries were released home, the seriously wounded were taken to safe areas, they are receiving the necessary assistance.
21:27 China brought to Serbia modern anti-aircraft missile systems HQ-22 surface-to-air, reports AP. According to the publication, Serbia maintains close partnerships with China and Russia, and also bought Russian and Chinese types of weapons in previous years.
21:25 In Lithuania , military exercises will soon be organized for the Ukrainian military, which will help them prepare for work with Western equipment, Delfi reports with reference to the commander of the Lithuanian army, General Valdemaras Rupshis.
21:15 Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravichyus was taken prisoner in Mariupol by Russian invaders and was later wounded in the head and chest. The Russians threw his body into the street, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said.
21:12 Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Igor Zhovkva says that decisions on the next stages on the path of Ukraine's accession to the EU will be made during the EU summit on June 25-26.
21:08 American military analysts predict that Russian troops will conduct a major offensive from Izyum to the Dnieper. In their opinion, the Dnieper is a strategic goal in the context of the struggle for Donbass. The conclusion was made on the basis of satellite imagery, which showed that hundreds of Russian military vehicles are moving through the village of Veliky Burluk in the direction of Izyum on Friday, April 8, writes The New York Times.
20:55 The Cabinet of Ministers sent the first billion hryvnias from the reserve fund of the state budget to restore the territories liberated from Russian troops, Shmyhal said. According to him, the funds will be used to eliminate the consequences of hostilities and the priority restoration of infrastructure.
In particular, 400 million hryvnias were sent to the Kyiv region, 250 million each to Chernihiv and Sumy regions, another 100 million to Zhytomyr.
20:52 Today, 2,824 people have been evacuated, Vereshchuk said. Buses for evacuation from Berdyansk, Tokmak and Energodar are held by the Russian military at a checkpoint in Vasilyevka.
20:35 In Moscow, the next war crimes of the Russian Federation were announced. Thus, the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response reported that in Ragovka near Kiev "a provocation is planned with the organization of staged filming of the search and opening of mass graves of civilians."
And foreign media reporters allegedly arrived in the city of Kremyannaya in the Severodonetsk region (which is called Kremennaya in Ukraine) "to film a provocation prepared by Ukrainian troops with shelling of ambulances from the Russian side."
In addition, in Belogorovka, Popasnyansky district, Luhansk region, "neo-Nazis mined tanks with chlorine on the territory of the water canal, which they plan to blow up when approaching the city of the People's Militia of the LPR."
20:30 According to the exit-poll, in the first round of the presidential elections in France, Macron and Le Pen won 24% of the vote each.
19:59 Kuleba said he was ready to negotiate with the Russians if it would help prevent at least one such bloodshed as in Bucha or Kramatorsk.
19:55 The Ministry of Agrarian Policy expects that 70 to 80 percent of agricultural land will be sown during the spring sowing campaign, First Deputy Minister Taras Vysotsky said. According to him, there are huge agricultural areas in the Chernigov and Sumy regions, and if everything is cleared in the coming weeks, this area could reach up to 80%.
19:44 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who met with Zelensky in Kiev the day before, plans to visit Moscow tomorrow.
19:27 The General Staff does not exclude the buildup of efforts by the enemy in the direction of Slavyansk, part of the forces - to Barvenkovo. There is also the possibility of intensifying hostilities for Kharkov.
19:21 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that the Russians will probably try to make an attempt to enter the administrative borders of the Kherson region. In particular, the enemy has already tried to take the lost positions in the area of the village of Osokorovka.
19:05 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced an award to its servicemen for the destruction of Ukrainian equipment. As the journalists of Radio Liberty found out, the most expensive is the destruction of Ukrainian aircraft - 300,000 rubles (111,000 hryvnias), a helicopter - 200,000 rubles (74,000 hryvnias), a tank - 100,000 rubles (37,000 hryvnias), a medium-range drone, an armored combat vehicle , a self-propelled artillery mount, an anti-aircraft missile system and a multiple launch rocket system - 50,000 (18,500 hryvnias). Those who destroy "manpower" are promised to pay up to 100,000 rubles.
18:43 Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned that Washington expects the Russian general, recently appointed to lead the military operations in Ukraine, to carry out more vicious attacks on civilians. "This particular general has a resume that includes brutality against civilians in other theaters in Syria," Sullivan told CNN.
At the same time, he is convinced that "the appointment of some general will not be able to erase the fact that Russia has already suffered a strategic defeat in Ukraine."
On April 8, it became known that the Russian invasion was now led by the commander of the Southern Military District, General Alexander Dvornikov, who has extensive experience in Russian operations in Syria.
18:39 According to the UN, more than 4.5 million people have left Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Most Ukrainian refugees left for Poland.
Also, the UN counted 113 thousand people who left for Russia from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Earlier, the mayor of Mariupol reported that the invaders forcibly removed 31,000 people from his city alone.
18:23 On the city beach in Chernihiv, pyrotechnicians found six shells from the Russian Uragan multiple launch rocket system, the State Emergency Service reported.
18:06 Ursula von der Leyen on the prospects for Ukraine's accession to the EU: "The process takes years, but in an extraordinary situation we must be ready for non-standard steps.
18:05 Biden will hold a virtual meeting tomorrow with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during which, among other things, the situation in Ukraine will be discussed, the White House said. They also noted that the American president has no plans to visit Kyiv yet.
18:03 Washington expects that Russia, due to Western sanctions, will cease to be one of the world's largest economies by the end of the year, Biden's national security aide Sullivan said.
17:50 Deputy commander of the Azov regiment Svyatoslav Palamar said that no one has been contacting the defenders of Mariupol for two weeks. “Have you thought about how to be here, how to fight in such conditions that the defenders of Mariupol are experiencing? <...> Politicians who say that “we support them, we are constantly in touch”, but for more than two weeks no one picks up the phone and no one talks to anyone."
17:43 The head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, specified that as a result of recent shelling, six rescuers were injured, all of them in hospitals. One girl is in serious condition, she is being operated on. Rescuers came under enemy rocket fire while clearing rubble at the site of the morning attack.
17:31 Arestovich said that the second phase of the offensive in Donbas has been going on for five days. In the south, according to him, the advance of the enemy stops, in the north, Izyum was taken by the Russian army, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped their further offensive.
Also, the adviser to the head of the OP said that the second echelon of the Russian army could be up to 20 BTGs and could be introduced in 1-3 weeks.
As for May 9, an important date for Putin, according to Arestovich, the enemy throws strategic forces to capture Mariupol, but is destroyed by the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "The victory of the Russian Federation in Mariupol and the JFO zone is a big question," he said.
17:16 Johnson addressed the Russians in Russian and urged to install a VPN and get independent information from anywhere in the world. "Your president is accused of committing war crimes. But I do not believe that he is acting on your behalf," the British prime minister emphasized.
17:11 A bloodied toy from Kramatorsk will be delivered to the UN as evidence, Oleksiy Beloshitsky, First Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department of Ukraine, said.
"The photo of this children's toy has spread all over the world. It has become a sad symbol of a terrible catastrophe caused by the vile racist regime at the Kramatorsk railway station. With a rocket "For Children" ... We decided to leave this toy in this state, withdraw it and send it to the UN representatives involved in fixing war crimes and crimes against humanity," Beloshitsky said.
16:55 Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Danish Parliament Rasmus Yarlov, following his visit to Kiev, called for an increase in the supply of weapons to Ukraine. He said that Russia is a threat to the whole of Europe, and will not stop voluntarily. "Only weapons and the will to fight can do it," Yarlov stressed.
16:49 The governor of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation announced the introduction of a yellow level of terrorist danger "in connection with possible provocations of Ukrainian nationalists."
16:45 Turkey will not let NATO ships into the Black Sea, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said. At the same time, he referred to the Montreux Convention and said that the passage would be closed to warships of countries that do not have access to the Black Sea.
The head of the Turkish Defense Ministry did not rule out that the mines in the Black Sea did not appear by chance: they could have been released in order to put pressure on Ankara and force NATO minesweepers to pass into the Black Sea.
16:40 Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan said that Washington is working to increase the supply of weapons to Ukraine, and is also studying the mechanism for training the Ukrainian military abroad, writes Bloomberg.
16:33 Bloomberg considers Russia's first external default since 1917 "virtually inevitable."
16:15 Ukraine and Slovakia are negotiating the possible sale to Kiev of 16 Zuzana 155mm self-propelled howitzers, which can hit targets at a distance of more than 30 kilometers, writes the Polish edition Niezalezna.
16:10 Residents of the territories from which the Russian military left will have to forget about mushroom picking - at least this coming autumn. As First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin explained, the forests will remain unsafe even after the cities that have been under occupation are recognized as safe for life.
15:48 As a result of new missile attacks on the Dnipro airport, five rescuers were injured, the infrastructure near the airfield was destroyed, said the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk. Another civilian died in Novopavlovka - he picked up a cluster munition.
15:27 In the Penza region of the Russian Federation, a camp has been set up for forcibly deported residents of Mariupol, said Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova. According to her, more than 400 Ukrainian citizens are now kept there.
15:24 According to the State Border Service, 2.2 thousand Ukrainian men tried to escape from the war, some of them died. Some are trying to bribe border guards, others use fake documents in which they attribute disability to themselves or their children, name living wives dead or add the number of children.
Most violators try to cross the border outside the checkpoints with the help of guides. So, the other day, law enforcement officers detained a citizen of Moldova, who crossed the Dniester in a small two-seater boat to pick up four men from Ukraine.
It also happened that law enforcement officers found the bodies of men on the banks of border reservoirs, and some became victims of bad weather in the Carpathians.
15:17 Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnik will seek a ban on the demonstration of Russian flags and other state symbols of the Russian Federation at rallies and other public events. To do this, he intends to negotiate with the federal government of Germany.
"If you hold a demonstration with the Russian flag, then you automatically support a state waging a war of annihilation against Ukraine and our civilian population," the ambassador explained.
15:13 Warships of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea began to paint over the side numbers, Arestovich said. According to him, this is done in order to hide their losses. We are talking about ships that were seriously damaged. "And since they are of the same type, they want to hide which ship was hit. This means that we are beating their navy," Arestovich added.
15:10 At Europe's largest poultry farm in Chernobaevka, Kherson region, more than four million chickens have died, writes The Wall Street Journal. This was due to the failure of the local power plant, as a result of which the automated bird feeding system was turned off.
15:02 As of April 10, 1,222 people were killed in the Kiev region as a result of the Russian invasion, Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova told Sky News.
15:00 The head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, announced new attacks by the occupiers: they hit an infrastructure facility in Zvonetsky, and an airport in Dnipro, from which "there was no living place left."
Earlier today, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had launched four Kalibr cruise missiles from a Black Sea Fleet frigate across Ukraine.
14:58 In Kherson, local residents who went to a peaceful rally were dispersed by the occupiers, including with shots, reports Suspіlne. There is no information about the victims yet.
14:56 Today, 150 Russian and Belarusian trucks have already failed to cross the border with Latvia. According to a representative of the State Revenue Service, most drivers were not aware of the new EU entry ban for Russian and Belarusian trucks.
14:47 John Lennon's son Julian sang the legendary song Imagine for the first time in history at a charity concert in support of Ukraine. Previously, Lennon Jr. said that he would never sing this song, except perhaps "under the threat of the end of the world."
"The war in Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy ... As a person and as an artist, I felt obliged to respond in the most significant way that I am capable of," wrote Julian Lennon.
14:36 According to the UN, the number of internally displaced persons in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion has reached 7.1 million people.
14:33 The National Guardsmen in the Kiev region discovered a large cache of ammunition of the Russian invaders. In 90 boxes they found ammunition for tanks, RPGs, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and much more.
14:29 The head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai predicted how the battle for Donbass could begin: “I think that at about 3-4 in the morning massive shelling will begin. Heavy and large-caliber mortars, artillery, aviation, MLRS, Grad, Tornado, Hurricane, Tochka-U. Everything they have, they use. It will last for several hours on the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and then they will go on the offensive with a huge number of tanks, infantry."
14:25 The occupiers during their stay at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant constantly interrogated personnel, sometimes with the use of force. As Oleksandr Lobada, head of the station's radiation safety department, told BBC Ukraine, the Russians wanted to know how the facility was managed and get information about all the procedures, documents and operations.
14:14 Pope Francis in his Sunday speech called for an Easter truce in Ukraine: "Put your weapons away, let the Easter truce begin ... But not to reload weapons and fight again, no. A truce to come to peace through genuine negotiations, being also prepared to make some sacrifices for the good of the people."
14:05 Red Cross spokesman Pascal Hundt told Sky News: "The level of suffering we're seeing is enormous and I don't remember seeing this in recent history." In particular, he called the situation in Mariupol "real hell."
14:00 The UN declares that a number of settlements in the Lugansk region, including Gorskoe, Kremennaya, Lisichansk, Novodruzhesk, Novozvanovka, Popasnaya, Rubizhne, Severodonetsk, Toshkovka and Zolote, are subjected to "merciless shelling." Civilians queuing for humanitarian aid are also being attacked.
13:52 Some types of weapons provided to Ukraine by Western partners came too late, Zelensky said in an interview with The Associated Press: "All the equipment, everything that they already send, for some types of equipment it was done too late. Because when we, for example, we are talking about Mariupol, when you lose thousands of people, and what now? I see 100% support from the leaders of some countries, this is true. And some European leaders have changed their position, but you see the price of these changes."
Asked if Ukraine had received enough weapons to make a difference in the war, the president replied: "Not yet." He also expressed his conviction that if Ukraine were a member of NATO, this war would not have happened.
13:48 In the German district of Herford will no longer issue license plates that contain the letter Z.
13:43 Zelensky said in an interview with AP that peace with Russia can be on the terms of the Ukrainian side. According to him, every Ukrainian family has lost something, "and they are unlikely to be satisfied with the world on any terms."
At the same time, the president stressed that if Ukraine has the opportunity to resolve the issue of ending the war through diplomacy, it should not be missed.
13:40 The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down the Russian Su-34 fighter, which tried to attack Nikolaev, Dumskaya writes.
13:37 Kuleba urged scientists around the world to investigate what led to the tragedy in Bucha: "Bucha did not happen in a day. For many years, Russian political elites and propaganda have incited hatred, dehumanized Ukrainians, nurtured Russian superiority and set the stage for these atrocities" .
13:24 In Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, the invaders are trying to create a picture for the Russian media today: they brought people for extras, who were given Russian flags. At the same time, they forbid local residents to go to rallies for Ukraine, they threaten to cut off communications, water, gas and heating, eyewitnesses report.
13:03 Arestovich said that during the entire war not a single border guard retreated, everyone accepted the fight. Today in Mariupol, one of the senior officers of the border troops was surrounded by enemies and wounded, after which he blew himself up along with the radio station so that the enemy would not get it.
12:49 The mayor of Irpin said that the abandoned cars that were parked near the bridge over the Irpin River were evacuated to three locations in the city: a parking lot near the cemetery, near the Korona cafe and next to the New York residential complex.
12:48 The global initiative Tribunal for Putin has already documented 1,188 episodes of Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the organization - the co-founder of the project, the Center for Civil Liberties , at least 414 cases of death of people, 392 cases of injury, 868 shelling and bombing, 559 attacks on civilian objects, 349 cases of destruction or damage to property were added to the base of the initiative.
12:33 In Ukraine, during martial law, bank accounts of individuals will be frozen in case of transfer of funds in the amount of more than 400 thousand hryvnias and the inability to indicate the source of their origin. The relevant NBU resolution came into force on April 8 and will remain in effect until the end of martial law.
If it is impossible to provide the bank with documents on the sources of origin of funds, the bank will be obliged to limit operations on this account. It will only be possible to send a donation to the army or buy war bonds.
12:26 In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian military destroyed an enemy convoy tonight, which was heading towards Izyum, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. He specified that it was "a large column of enemy equipment and manpower."
12:22 In the Lugansk region, the border guards repelled an enemy attack and took a prisoner. According to the State Border Service, this is the fourth attempt by the invaders to attack this position. The Russians again tried to stealthily sneak up on the positions of the Ukrainian fighters, but the border guards "generously treated the orcs with lead." Several invaders were killed, one wounded begged not to shoot and surrendered.
12:03 Russia is mobilizing from ORDLO even those who are not subject to conscription - employees of "strategic enterprises" who until that time were guaranteed a "booking". According to Ukrainian intelligence, a new order for 1,700 people has arrived at the Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works. This is the fourth and largest wave of mobilization at the plant. Previously, orders for 1000, 500, 400 people came. The "reservation" was also removed from employees serving the regional electrical networks.
In addition, employees of the "LPR" traffic police were given the right to issue summonses at stationary traffic police posts. Also, employees of the district military commissariats of the "LNR" and the military police of the Russian Federation conduct door-to-door rounds in search of men aged 18 to 65 years.
Documents of persons not subject to conscription were found among the papers of the destroyed unit of the “DPR army”: one of the dead was a disabled child, another was an employee of the Komsomolets Donbass mine with a certificate stating that he works at a “strategically important enterprise”.
11:51 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the Black Sea Fleet frigate from the Black Sea carried out a salvo launch of four Caliber cruise missiles "on ground targets on the territory of Ukraine."
11:48 Italian Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini called for Odessa to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List: "The magnificent city, deeply connected with Italy throughout its history, is now in danger of being destroyed. Act now to recognize it as a UNESCO World Heritage Site."
11:45 Servicemen of the 95th Airborne Brigade reported on the first successful combat use of the British Starstreak MANPADS - the Ukrainians destroyed the Russian UAV Orlan.
11:40 Israel opened a humanitarian air bridge to help Ukraine. According to Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky, six planes will soon deliver medicines, medical equipment and food to Ukraine. The first plane has already landed in Hungary, from where the cargo was transferred to Ukrainian territory.
11:25 The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine appealed to the world's largest companies with a request to transfer money to the Fund for Economic Recovery and Transformation and the Fund for Support of Small and Medium Businesses. Among the addressees, in particular, are Henkel, Carlsberg, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Philip Morris, Beiersdorf, Procter & Gamble and others.
According to Deputy Minister of Economy Oleksandr Griban, financial support will be directed to tools to help businesses and reanimate the economy and will prevent a crisis that, due to Russia's military aggression, threatens not only Ukraine, but the whole world.
11:01 In Mariupol, the Russians staged a so-called "cleansing operation", said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor. According to him, they are looking for "Nazis" - that is, anyone who does not want to obey the occupier. The invaders set up several checkpoints and kill civilians right on the streets, and they also take pictures with the bodies of the dead. Then the bodies are removed from the streets - they cover their tracks.
Also, "cleansing" in their understanding is the forced mobilization of men into the "DPR" army. As for the Kadyrovites in the city, according to Andryushchenko, they are part of a division of the Russian Guard, "which once again proves that all their fights are either against the civilian population or against empty buildings in the rear."
10:52 Russian Ombudsman Moskalkova said that four employees of Rosatom, "who were held in Ukraine since February 23," as well as military personnel who were captured, were returned to the Russian Federation.
The day before, the OP reported that 26 people returned to Ukraine - 12 military and 14 civilians.
10:48 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 10:
- personnel - about 19,300 people,
- tanks - 722,
- armored fighting vehicles - 1911,
- artillery systems - 342,
- MLRS - 108,
- air defense systems - 55,
- aircraft - 152,
- helicopters - 137,
- automotive equipment - 1384,
- ships/boats - 7,
- tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
- UAV operational-tactical level - 112,
- special equipment - 25,
- launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
10:45 In Irpin, they began to lay a water pipe from Kiev, the Red Cross allocated 20 million hryvnias for this, said the mayor of the city Alexander Markushin. Also, according to him, the construction of a crossing across the river is being completed in the city, and another group of volunteers today went to clean up the city.
10:44 Satellite recorded a 12-kilometer Russian convoy east of Kharkiv, writes CNN. The military column was moving south through the village of Veliky Burluk in the Kharkov region (located east of Kharkov, not far from the Russian-Ukrainian border) towards the regional center.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russian troops are regrouping across the border and plan to advance towards Kharkov.
10:38 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, once again called on the residents of Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Lysychansk, Popasna and Gorskaya communities to use humanitarian corridors: "Where it's not too late, make the most important decision in life - evacuate ... Do not leave the opportunity for Russians to mock civilians," Gaidai asked.
10:35 Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov believes that "the risk of refraining from confrontation with Putin's Russia is much worse for NATO than the risk of escalation."
“This is a war of conquest in the heart of Europe, completely destroying the existing systems of political and military security. If the world swallows Putin’s aggression and does not offer a radical solution, it will repeat itself again and again. For Ukraine, powerful weapons are much worse for NATO than the risk of escalation," the major general said in an interview with the BBC.
10:13 Humanitarian corridors agreed on April 10:
- Mariupol - Zaporozhye (own transport)
- Berdyansk, Tokmak, Energodar - Zaporozhye (own transport and buses)
- Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Popasnaya, Gorne, Rubizhne - Bakhmut (during a ceasefire by Russian troops in the Luhansk region)
10:00 In Rubizhne, a positional battle began inside the city, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the invaders shelled all the settlements of the free Lugansk region all night. The Russians do not give up their attempts to break through near Popasnaya and Rubezhnoye, but to no avail: the enemy suffers losses, all attacks are repelled.
A possible attack on Severodonetsk may come from the occupied Shchastia. The group of Russians in the Luhansk region has about 60 thousand people, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to fight back.
09:55 Since the beginning of the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already captured more than a thousand units of heavy military equipment and vehicles of the Russian Federation, the Oryx portal calculated. The study analyzed the loss of Russian equipment, confirmed by photo and video evidence.
At present, after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has already lost 2,693 pieces of equipment, of which: 1,413 destroyed, 39 damaged, 236 abandoned, 1,005 captured.
09:52 Details about the elections in France - in the material Macron against Putin's girlfriend .
09:51 Poland will ban the supply of gas and coal from Russia - such a decision will be made in the coming months, Deputy Foreign Minister Shimon Shinkovsky said.
09:49 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 363 Ukrainian prisoners have been released after they expressed their readiness to go to the front. Some of them died in battle, the Ministry of Justice said.
09:47 Japanese property insurance companies have completely stopped entering into new and renewing existing contracts with Japanese companies operating in the Russian Federation, writes Kyodo.
09:45 According to British intelligence, the Russian invaders are trying to make up for losses by recruiting militants from the unrecognized Transnistria, as well as by personnel dismissed from military service since 2012.
09:37 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is asking donors to urgently send $50 million to Ukraine to help small farmers "sow their fields, harvest their crops, save their livestock and continue food production."
09:30 Italy, which receives about 40 percent of its gas imports from Russia, has agreed with Algeria on the supply of blue fuel. According to Reuters, tomorrow the Italian prime minister is flying to Algeria to sign the relevant agreement.
09:24 Melitopol becomes Chernobaevka: the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the fifth time attacked the Melitopol airfield, where Russian military units were concentrated, Arestovich said.
09:09 Johnson arrived in Kiev by train from Poland, Ukrzaliznytsia reported. He even recorded an appeal to the Ukrainian railroad workers, in which he called the train "fantastic" and expressed his gratitude to the entire team of railroad workers.
09:02 Yesterday Kadyrov published a video in which an allegedly captured Ukrainian intelligence officer admits that he was captured by the Kadyrovites in Mariupol and shows the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the invaders. But the people of Mariupol immediately recognized the “scout”: local volunteer Kirill Dolimbaev said that “in the video, he is in need, who has problems with his head and is constantly drunk, and whom we fed every day in our OCU Temple in Mariupol.”
Also in social networks, they noticed that the "prisoner" was painted with a tattoo in the form of a bat - this is a symbol of Russian intelligence.
08:53 In France, the first round of presidential elections is taking place, in which, like five years ago, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are considered favorites. Only this time the gap between them has narrowed a lot, and many do not rule out Le Pen's victory. Experts say her victory could also be "Putin's victory."
08:51 The head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, spoke about the numerous missile strikes in the region. So, in the Dnieper, an infrastructure facility was destroyed by enemy strikes, rescuers extinguished the fire for several hours, there is one victim.
In the Pavlogradsky district, a rocket hit an industrial facility, destroyed the premises and caused a fire, there were no casualties. In the Dneprovsky district, a farm building burned down, no one was injured.
08:32 In the village of Buzova near Bucha, a mass grave was found with dozens of tortured and killed residents by Russian invaders, said the head of the Dmitriev community, Taras Didich. According to him, the dead were stacked near a gas station between the villages of Mila and Mechta of the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district.
In the liberated territory, they also found about a dozen shot civilian cars along with passengers.
08:26 Russia has launched the first stage of the offensive in the Donbass , Arestovich said. According to him, reinforcements are expected to arrive for the second stage - these are ten BTGs that come from the Far East, as well as those who were withdrawn from Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy. The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office specified that the offensive is underway from the north, but it is stalling from the south.
08:17 In Severodonetsk, Russian troops fired on a school and two high-rise buildings in the morning, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
07:46 The Russian occupiers are trying to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Izyum region and establish full control over Mariupol, the General Staff reports.
07:36 Over the previous day, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit 13 air targets: three aircraft, one helicopter, five UAVs and four cruise missiles.
07:33 Repair and restoration teams from the Yaroslavl region of the Russian Federation arrive in the Kharkiv region to repair railways in the occupied territories, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
07:28 According to the General Staff, the Russians deployed military hospitals and repair shops for military equipment in the occupied territories of Kharkiv, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. In the hospitals of the occupiers, there is a lack of qualified medical staff, and there are also problems with the stocks of medicines.
07:15 The Russian military leave streamers even in washing machines in the homes of Ukrainians, Monastyrsky said.
06:04 NATO is developing the possibility of a permanent military presence on its border due to Russia's attack on Ukraine, Stoltenberg said. He also believes that such a strengthening of NATO will lead to a "fundamental reset of the alliance."
04:04 Canada will send several charter flights to Europe for Ukrainian refugees who want to fly to Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau said.
00:29 It will take at least another two weeks to count the number of victims in the Buchansk region, said Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky.
00:02 Podolyak said that Zelensky will meet with Putin after Ukraine wins big battles, including in the Donbass. After that, Kyiv will receive a more substantial negotiating position, from which it will be able to dictate certain conditions. It could take two to three weeks, he said.
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office emphasized that Russia must get rid of its imperial illusions, and Ukraine is the only state in the world that will help it in this.
"Ukraine certainly does not lose. We have no other way. Everything that happened - Bucha, Kyiv region, Kramatorsk - all this has brought us to the point that we must put an end to cannibalistic regimes, which is the Russian Federation today," Podolyak stressed.