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.