The Russians shelled the Odesa airport, the runway was damaged. The airport was fired at from the territory of Crimea with Bastion missiles.

 Yesterday evening, the Russians launched a missile attack on the Shevchenkiv district of Kyiv. One rocket allegedly hit the Artem plant, and the second hit a residential building. At least one person died, 10 were injured.

*** At night, the Russians shelled the city of Fastiv, Kyiv region. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russians shelled two villages on the border with the Erson region from Grady.

***In the Khmelnytskyi region, a missile hit an infrastructure object in the Shepetivskyi district.

*** Shelling of residential areas continued in Kharkiv.

*** Severodonetsk and Lysychansk were shelled in the Luhansk region. Girske, Privillia.

 Another exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and Russia took place. 45 people were released from Russian captivity - 13 officers, 20 soldiers, of which 7 were wounded. 12 civilians were also released.

 Russian troops launched a missile attack on Odesa region. The road and railway bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Zatokа area was damaged. The Russians also shelled the Zaporizhzhia region, and fighting continues in the Luhansk region.

 As a result of shelling by the occupiers of Kharkiv, three people were killed and seven were wounded.

*** Russia carried out 35 airstrikes on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol during the night from April 25 to 26. In addition to the military, there are civilians on the territory of the plant.

*** The armed forces of Ukraine destroyed 10 Russian aircraft and drones in one day on Monday. Three SU-34, SU-35, and SU-30 fighters were shot down.

*** A conference on military support for Ukraine is being held in the German city of Ramstein, at the US military base. 40 countries received invitations. The meeting takes place immediately after the secret visit to Kyiv by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin.

 In the morning there was a very long air alarm. Later, it became known that the Russians bombed key railway stations in western and central Ukraine. The closest to us are Zdolbuniv and Krasne.

     In addition to Zdolbuniv and Krasne, the Russians launched rocket attacks on the Zhmerinka and Kozyatyn railways, where 5 people died and 18 were injured. Korosten, Zhytomyr region, was also bombed.

**** In Bryansk, Russia, an oil depot and the 120th arsenal of the main missile and artillery administration of Russia are on fire. The railway, which provided transportation to military depots, was damaged.

 The Russians fired missiles at Odessa. At the press conference, President Zelenskyi said that Russia fired 7 missiles at Odesa, two of which were shot down. Rockets hit residential buildings. 8 people died, about 20 were injured. Among the dead is a 3-month-old child. The number of victims may increase because the rubble has not yet been fully cleared.

*** In the Kharkiv region, three civilians were killed and 7 people were injured in shelling.

***The Russians again disrupted the evacuation of Mariupol residents. Instead of the planned corridor to Zaporizhzhia, the Russians put people in another bus and took them to the city of Dokuchaevsk in the occupied territory of the Donetsk region. Earlier it was reported that the Russians took 308 residents of Mariupol, including 90 children, to Vladivostok, and 466 people, including 106 children, were taken to Cheboksary. These are very remote cities of Russia.

*** The Intelligence Directorate reported that our military attacked the control post of the Russian army. As a result of the strike, 2 Russian generals were killed, and one more is in critical condition.

 On April 16, Russia fired three missiles at Mykolaiv, which flew over the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the Mykolaiv region. The missiles were fired from Belarus. There was a great threat to target a nuclear reactor.

*** In the Kyiv region, law enforcement officers have already found the bodies of 1,084 civilians, of which 75% are people killed by the Russians with small arms.

*** Russia named the new goals of the second stage of the so-called "special operation" (the war). There they declared their intention to establish full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine.

*** Slavyansk was shelled at night, probably with cluster bombs.

***The Russian military is preparing to take full control over the city of Oleshki in the Kherson region from April 23. The city has been in the Russian zone of occupation since the beginning of the war. However, the Ukrainian authorities were still active there.

*** The UN Human Rights Office has described the war in Ukraine as a "horrific history of violations against the civilian population" in which respect for international law has been "set aside".

*** The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported that the Russians fired at the regional trauma hospital in the city of Liman with Uragan volley fire systems.

*** An AN-26 transport plane, which was performing a technical flight, crashed in the Zaporizhzhia region. It is known about one dead and two wounded. The plane touched an electric pillar, as a result of which the engine caught fire.

 At night, the Russians shelled Zelenodolsk in the Dnipropetrovsk region from "Hurricanes". People and houses were not injured. The enemy hit communications and left the city without electricity and water.

*** In a war of confrontation, the Russians are not capable of advancing, and ours lacks heavy equipment to push the Russians beyond the borders of Ukraine.

 After the focus of Russia's war shifted to Donbas, artillery attacks and airstrikes intensified. Russia has air superiority. Ukraine needs more artillery most of all. If Russia can destroy the Ukrainian artillery, it is possible that it will be able to use its tanks to advance. Therefore, it is important that arms deliveries continue and arrive daily.

    *** President Zelenskyy said that we are ready to exchange the civilians and Ukrainian soldiers blocked by Russia in Mariupol for captured Russians.

*** Russia forces teenagers from the occupied territories to fight, said ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova. Andrii "Cerber", a graduate of the military-patriotic club "Youth of Novorossiya", died during combat missions of the Russian army. The club trains children from 10 to 18 years of age in the following areas: military training, physical training, medicine, history, tactics. More than 90 children are members of the club - orphans, children who are in difficult life circumstances.

 In the Donetsk region, as a result of enemy shelling, three people were killed, 5 civilians were injured, including one child. Also, our military launched a counteroffensive and knocked out the Russian occupiers from Mariynka. The General Staff reported that fighting continues on the outskirts of Oleksandrivka, on the border of the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions. The occupiers are trying to dislodge the Ukrainian defenders beyond the administrative border of the Kherson region, but have had no success.

*** The Russians will continue to use the airfields of Belarus to carry out air and missile strikes on Ukraine.

*** Estonian intelligence reports that in the offensive battles in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the Russians used from 45 to 60 thousand soldiers.

*** The "Azovstal" plant in Mariupol was bombed and almost completely destroyed, said the deputy commander of the "Azov" regiment Svyatoslav Palamar. He also said that the Russians are dropping powerful bombs on the plant, and there are many people under the rubble.

*** As a result of the shelling of Kharkiv by Russian "Hurricanes", 4 civilians were killed and 14 were injured. 10 residential buildings, garages, and a supermarket were damaged.

 There have been three air alarms since the morning. The news reports that the Russians have fired four rockets at Lviv. Three missiles on the military infrastructure and one more strike on the civilian tire fitting. Missiles were fired from aircraft in the Caspian Sea region. Military objects - large warehouses that were not used. The warehouses and tire fitting shop were completely destroyed. 7 people died, 11 more were injured, including one child. Three victims are in serious condition. The child has minor injuries.

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*** The Russians captured the city of Kreminna in the Luhansk region. During an attempt to evacuate from the occupied city, the Russians fired at a civilian car, four people were killed and one was injured. Before the war, more than 18,000 people lived in the city.

*** The Ukrainian military seized a mobile phone from a captured Russian, which he took from a child during evacuation. At first, the occupier lied that it is his device. There was a SIM card of a Russian operator in the phone, and in the contact list there were Ukrainian numbers signed as "daddy" and "mommy". The Ukrainian military called these numbers and discovered that the phone belonged to a 10-year-old girl, Ivanka. The girl's mother said that the phone was taken by Russian soldiers when they were leaving the city.

*** Viktor Medvedchuk asked Putin and Zalensky that he was exchanged for the Ukrainian military and ordinary residents of Mariupol.

 An ordinary person from Kharkov writes on Instagram: "Yesterday in my Kharkov, 10 people died from shelling by the Russian armed forces, among them a 7-month-old child."

  *** Near Kiev, the same plant that produced the Neptune missiles that sank the Russian cruiser Moskva was bombed.

*** A photo of a 10-year-old girl who lost both legs as a result of Russian shelling of the station in Kramatorsk appeared on Instagram.

*** Ukrainian national news reports a funny incident. The Russians soldiers did stole an ordinary tank truck from local residents a "Shit truck", as they are called in the people. The Russians thought it was a fuel truck.

*** The Ukrainian military in Mariupol refused to surrender to the Russians. At night, the Russians announced that they would guarantee the lives of Ukrainian soldiers who would lay down their arms and surrender today, after 6 o'clock in the morning.

 In the morning, the Russians launched a rocket attack on Lviv. It is reported that ours shot down 4 missiles. There was also an air alarm in Dubno, probably in connection with this shelling.

*** Also in the morning, Russians shelled the Darnytsky district of Kyiv. Russia announced that it struck a weapons plant in Zhulyany on the outskirts of Kyiv. The authorities of the Kyiv region announced three strikes by the Russians.

*** In the evening, the Russians shelled Kharkiv for the second time in a day. As a result, one person had been killed. The first shelling was in the area of the market. Today is Saturday. People went to the market to buy food and things and at that time there was a shelling.

 The Ministry of Defense of Russia confirmed that the cruiser "Moskva" sank during a storm while trying to tow it to Sevastopol.

*** The Security Service of Ukraine said that the Russians themselves shelled the village of Klymove in the Bryansk region of Russia. This is evidenced by the interception of telephone conversations of the occupiers.

*** 5 people died and 15 were injured as a result of the shelling of Mykolaiv residential areas. The fifth person who died - picked up a projectile that did not explode.

 Yesterday evening there were reports that the Russian missile cruiser Moskva was hit by two Neptune missiles. A fire broke out on board the cruiser, and the ammunition was destroyed. It is also reported that the crew has been evacuated. A fire broke out on the cruiser. It is not yet known whether the cruiser sank or not. The crew of the cruiser consisted of 500-700 people. The number of dead and other losses is still unknown.

        As part of the Russian military fleet in the Black Sea, there are 6 more ships and 4 submarines, which have a total of 56 missiles.

        There are still 7 ships and 2 submarines in the Mediterranean Sea, which Turkey does not allow into the Black Sea.

     *** The Ukrainian military reported that a fire broke out on the cruiser "Moskva". Other Russian ships try to help, but the storm and a powerful explosion of ammunition overturned the cruiser and it began to sink.

**** Two pilots returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity. They were held captive by the Russians since March 8. They were captured in the Chernihiv region, and then they were transferred to the city of Kursk, where they were held in a cell with eight other Ukrainian officers.

**** The representative of the Pentagon said that the cruiser "Moscow" did not sink, although it was damaged by explosions. The cruiser reached Sevastopol on its own.

 In Mariupol, the marine unit was able to break out of the encirclement and connect with the "Azov" regiment. But the "Azov" regiment is probably also surrounded, in Mariupol. How are they holding up there? I can't understand.

*** BBC News reports that Russian propaganda is spreading a video on social networks, where BBC News journalists allegedly testify about the involvement of Ukraine in the missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station, as a result of which almost 60 civilians died.

 News from the President of Ukraine - Putin's confidant Viktor Medvedchuk was detained.

***News from Deutsche Welle.

* Russians shot from a tank the house of the Caritas charity fund in Mariupol, 7 people died.

* In Kharkiv, as a result of shelling of the city by the Russians, 8 people died, including one child.

*In Irpen, a 3-day curfew has been announced until 9 a.m. on April 15. Only law enforcement officers, rescuers, communal services and volunteers can enter the city.

* Great Britain is investigating reports of Russian use of chemical weapons in Mariupol.

 Lyudmila Denisova, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, reported that in Volnovakha, Donetsk Region, the Russians force children to attend schools in the areas where hostilities are taking place. Thus, the Russians use children as human shields and thereby complicate the operation to liberate the city.

***In the town of Borodyanka, which was almost completely destroyed by the Russian military, seven bodies were pulled from the debris. In six days of work, rescuers found 19 bodies. After the shelling, the Russians did not allow the debris to be dismantled. There could be living people under the houses. Their voices could be heard from under the debris.

*** The defenders of Mariupol held the defense for 47 days. They have practically run out of ammunition, and the number of enemy military equipment and personnel is ten times greater.

 Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova reported that 1,222 civilian people had been killed in Kyiv region only.

*** The Russians began recruiting recruits from Transnistria and reservists who were discharged from the army in 2012. The armed forces of Ukraine announced that they will shoot down Russian planes that Russia wants to transfer to Transnistria.

*** The mayor of Kharkiv reported that the Russians started dropping cluster bombs on the city on parachutes.

*** The Prosecutor General's Office reported that as of today, 176 children have been killed and more than 336 have been injured as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

*** In the summer of 2021, the intelligence services of the United States and Great Britain received information that Russia was going to carry out a full-scale military invasion of the territory of Ukraine.

*** The Russians completely destroyed the Dnipro airport.

*** In the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the Russians significantly increased the intensity of shelling of populated areas.

 The Russians launched a rocket attack on the Kramators railway station at a time when people who wanted to evacuate to the west of the country had gathered there. The Washington Post reports that 50 people were killed and 98 wounded. The Russians said that they did not attack Kramatorsk and that this was all false.

 In the news, I saw that the New York Times confirmed the information that the video in which Ukrainian soldiers shoot wounded Russian prisoners is true. I watched that video. It really shows how the wounded man, who was still alive, but already wheezing, is being shot. The video also showed the bodies of several more killed soldiers. One of them had his hands tied behind his back and was lying in a pool of blood. Apparently, the wound was in the neck or head. At the end of the clip, one soldier says "Glory to Ukraine", and the second replies "Glory to the heroes". All the military speaks Russian. The Russian language is quite common in Ukraine among the military. But I have doubts about this video. In my opinion, the video is staged.

1. The video first appeared on the Telegram channel of the separatists, or the Russian military.

2. Why did Ukrainian military personnel film themselves, if they themselves are committing a war crime?

3. If it was really filmed by the Ukrainian military, why did they give the video to the enemies?

       The British BBC sent a request to the Ukrainian side regarding this incident. Ours promised to conduct an investigation. How it will all end is still unknown.

 The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reports that since the beginning of the war, 167 children have been killed, and more than 279 have been injured.

*** At night, Russia launched missile strikes on Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv regions. The Russians attack, mainly, oil depots, which causes large fires.

 On the way to Rivne, I noticed that all the road signs indicating the name of the settlement had been removed. They are not found anywhere, not in Rivne, not in Dubno, not in the villages. The territorial defense checkpoint was only in Rivne. There are concrete blocks and sandbags near Dubno, but the checkpoint itself is apparently is empty.

 Yesterday, the Russians bombed Ternopil. It is reported that the object of critical infrastructure was damaged. There are no human victims. The city authorities urged local residents not to comment on what and where the explosion occurred and not to publish photos on social networks.

*** At night there was a repeated ьшіішдуі attack by the Russians on Odesa. The Russians bombed an oil storage facility and an oil refinery.

*** The city of Derkachi in the Kharkiv region was shelled at night. Three people died and 7 were injured.

 In Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, the Russians hit the same building in the center of the city for the third time in a week. It's an ordinary five-story building where ordinary people live, not a military facility. According to the head of the Luhansk Oblast, Severodonetsk suffered the greatest destruction from the Russians in the past day, six high-rise buildings and a store burned down there, five houses in Rubizhny, and two houses in Lysychansk.

*** Odesa was bombarded with missiles. According to preliminary data, there are no victims.
*** As a result of the shelling of Mykolaiv, 14 people were taken to hospitals, among them a 15-year-old child with an average degree of severity. Surgery tomorrow. One person could not be saved. The city of Ochakiv was also shelled, there were dead and wounded.
*** In the evening, the Russians shelled Kharkiv, there were dead and wounded among the civilian population. Among the 23 victims are children. The final number of victims is still unknown.
*** After the liberation from the Russians of the Kyiv region, in the cities of Busha, Gostomel, Irpin and others, many bodies of the dead among the civilian population were discovered. The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch records crimes committed by Russians.

 The General Staff of Ukraine reports that the Russians are trying to reach the borders of the Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions.

       There are no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the Russian army in Volyn. At the same time, the air defense system is being built up in the border areas of Ukraine.

*** The Russians launched a missile attack on Shepetivka, Khmelnytskyi region. The consequences are still unknown.

 The number of people killed in the rocket attack on the Mykolaiv state administration increased to 30 people. Work on dismantling the rubble is still ongoing.

*** Red forest, this is not a joke to you. The first death of a Russian soldier from radiation sickness was recorded. Many soldiers have been hospitalized at the Gomel Radiation Center in Belarus for forced recovery. Experts claim that a person receives an annual dose of radiation during a day's stay in the Red Forest. Russian soldiers dug trenches there and lived there without radiation protection for a month. Most of them will probably die from radiation sickness.

             When I was a liquidator at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, I saw that Red Forest. Pine trees, on which the needles have turned red from radiation, and the trunks of the trees became black. Our Ukrainian regiment carried out work on cleaning the city of Pripyat. The Estonian regiment was located near us, they carried out the decontamination of the Red Forest. There was also a Russian regiment carrying out the decontamination of the nuclear plant. There was a mutiny in the Estonian regiment. The Estonians tied their commander to a tree in the Red Forest and left him there. The rebellion was suppressed. That commander died of radiation sickness some time later. This story was told to me by an officer after I asked him why there are no weapons in our and the Estonian regiments, but there are in the Russian regiment? That officer told me about a riot, after which small arms were taken from our military units.

    **** An oil depot was set on fire in Russian Belgorod. The Russians say they saw two Ukrainian helicopters at low altitude which fired at the oil depot. Our military claims that they were not involved in the shelling, but that the oil depot was set on fire by the Russians themselves. It is not yet known who is involved in this.