[Korrespondent] 22.47 Ukrainian marines carried out a unique operation: for the first time in the history of warfare, they destroyed a bridge using drones. The Ukrainians used British Malloy T-150 logistics drones for this, The Telegraph reports.
The mission, carried out by the 426th Marine Unmanned Systems Regiment, lasted two months. The bridge had previously been attempted to be destroyed by aircraft and HIMARS missiles, but the structure proved too strong for attacks from above.
20.17 As a result of the attack by Russian troops on the city of Pryluky, 15 civilians were injured. This was reported by the head of the Chernihiv OAV Vyacheslav Chaus.
According to him, seven people were hospitalized - three of them were taken to the regional hospital. The rest were provided with outpatient care. At the same time, one woman is in serious condition, the other patients are stable.
18.39 On the night of April 7, Ukrainian military again struck the Ust-Luga Oil oil terminal in the Leningrad region of the Russian Federation. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this.
The military also clarified the results of the attacks in the port of Primorsk and at the Lukoil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod.
17.33 As a result of the attack on the Russian city of Novorossiysk, oil infrastructure and a missile frigate were hit. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the details of the attack.
17.27 A member of the FSB agent network received 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. The SBU reported this on April 7. It is noted that the perpetrator was part of an enemy cell of correctional officers, which SBU officers neutralized in August 2024 in the Dnipropetrovsk region. According to the case materials, the agent traveled around the area to identify and hand over to the enemy the places of the largest concentration of Ukrainian troops near the regional center. She also covertly asked acquaintances for the addresses of logistics centers where weapons are stored and military equipment is repaired.
17.09 Russian war criminals struck the village of Velykyi Burluk in Kharkiv region. As a result of the strike, a 19th-century architectural monument - the Dontsiv-Zakharzhevsky estate - was completely destroyed. This was reported by the head of the Kupyansk district military administration, Andriy Kanashevich, on Facebook.
17.04 A scheme to seize budget funds during the restoration of a nine-story building in Uman, destroyed by a Russian missile strike in April 2023, has been exposed. This is a facility where 23 people died, including six children. As reported by the Prosecutor General's Office, the contractor illegally received more than UAH 1.4 million.
16.47 Since the beginning of the day, 82 clashes between the Ukrainian army and the Russian occupiers have taken place on the front. Most of them were recorded in three directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational summary as of 16:00.
16.43 The number of dead in the shelling of Kherson has increased to four people, reported Yaroslav Shanko, head of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"It became known about another Kherson resident who received fatal injuries as a result of shelling of the Korabelny district by Russian occupation troops at around 11:00. His identity is currently being established by the relevant services," he noted.
Note that at around 10:50 a.m., the occupants set fire to a residential building. Initially, three people were reported dead.
16.41 The Verkhovna Rada adopted draft law No. 15110 on the extension of military conscription for 3 years after the end of the war. 257 people's deputies voted for it and in total. This is evidenced by the broadcast of the parliamentary session.
A separate special fund will be created in the Budget Code, where funds from the military levy will be directed.
16.16 Russian invaders fired at a bus in the Nikopol district for the second time in a day. Five civilians were injured, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Oleksandr Ganzha, reported on Telegram.
15.48 The appearance of the "operational reserve" mark in "Reserve+" is not related to the update of the application - it existed in the system before. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reports. It is noted that citizens can be assigned to the operational reserve, in particular after military service or in other cases provided for by law. Currently, this is a relatively small number of people, this category is not massive. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that no new functions have been introduced in this part, and the current reservation rules are regulated by relevant regulatory acts.
15.21 Ukraine is preparing a law on alternative civilian service for religious organizations whose members cannot take up arms during war. This was announced by Viktor Yelensky, head of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, Ukrinform reports.
"As we know, during war many freedoms are restricted, but freedom of conscience is not. Is enough being done to protect this freedom, and are all legal mechanisms involved? I think not. Therefore, we are currently working with colleagues from the ministries of economy and justice on a draft law on alternative non-military civilian service, which directly affects Jehovah's Witnesses," explained Yelensky.
He believes that the Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations" adopted in 1991 was a huge breakthrough, but it does not take into account the realities of war.
13.56 The Russians continue their targeted terror against Ukrainians in Nikopol and other cities and communities near the front line. This was written by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram, commenting on the Russian attack on a minibus in the city of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region.
13.26 A scheme of illegal accrual of "combat" payments to 164 servicemen who were not actually performing tasks on the front line was exposed in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The State Bureau of Investigation reported this on Tuesday, April 7.
The investigation established that the unit's leadership organized a scheme to illegally charge combat pay to personnel.
In total, such payments were issued to 164 servicemen, allegedly for performing tasks related to maintaining platoon strongholds.
In reality, these servicemen were in headquarters positions and did not perform combat missions.
As a result, almost 12 million hryvnias were unreasonably paid from the state budget.
13.22 Suspicion has been reported against the captain of a vessel of the Russian "shadow" fleet , which was exporting grain and oil products from temporarily occupied Crimea. The SBU informs about this.
The captain is a citizen of a Middle Eastern country. At the time of the detention in Odessa, there were 16 other crew members on board the vessel - all citizens of the Middle East region.
12.48 Russian invaders killed three people in the Korabelny district of Kherson. This was reported by the head of the Kherson OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin, in Telegram. It is also known about five wounded civilians - two women and three men.
12.27 Law enforcement officers have uncovered a large-scale scheme of illegal "booking" and travel abroad, organized by a criminal authority from Odessa. The press service of the National Police reported on the details of the special operation.
According to the investigation, a clear criminal scheme was built by a resident of Odessa, known in criminal circles. He involved representatives of a controlled company, the CCC and the JV, as well as residents of Odessa, Kyiv, Mykolaiv and Ternopil.
12.25 Fighters of the Brotherhood unit from the Timur special unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine carried out an extremely difficult raid deep behind the Russian lines at the bottom of the dried-up Kakhovka reservoir and captured a Russian GRU officer.
As part of the Ukrainian Witness YouTube project, scouts spoke about kilometers of swamps, reeds, and thickets, constant surveillance by Russian drones, and the distance of fire contact, which in some places is reduced to two meters.
"You're just rustling around in these thickets all the time without being able to orient yourself in which direction to go. You can really see everything two meters in front of you," the chief of staff of the Brotherhood unit, under the pseudonym "Division", described the conditions of movement.
A captured Russian officer with an open fracture, captured in the rear, was brought out by fighters under enemy fire.
"We had to walk 900 meters with him to our positions. The enemies started "working" on him. We understood that we had to get out together - his life was already our responsibility," said the Brotherhood fighter.
11.41 Russian aggressors attacked the center of the city of Pryluky in Chernihiv region with strike drones. The city council building was damaged , Suspilne reported.
An enemy drone also attacked the State Tax Inspectorate building in the center of the city of Novgorod-Siversky.
11.30 The government has adopted a resolution that accelerates the restoration and protection of national roads for military and medical logistics. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov. According to him, the State Special Transport Service will carry out work on the repair and anti-drone protection of such roads. It will also order work on their maintenance in areas of active hostilities and in a zone up to 40 km from them or temporarily occupied territories.
11.18 Russian occupiers have been trying to capture the city of Kostyantynivka in Donetsk region for almost a year, but units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are successfully repelling all enemy attacks. This was reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, on Telegram.
He said that he worked in the area of ​​responsibility of the 19th Corps, which defends the Kostyantynivsko-Druzhkivsk agglomeration.
10.47 Counterintelligence officers detained an engineer of a strategic defense plant in the Dnipropetrovsk region. He was simultaneously spying for two Russian special services : the FSB and the military intelligence (GRU). This was reported by the SBU and the regional prosecutor's office.
The agent provided information about the testing of modern weapons models in the region: foreign tanks, artillery shells, as well as one of the key operational-tactical missile complexes for the country's defense capability - indicating the test sites and production volumes.
10.29 On Tuesday morning, power outages were recorded in 15 regions of Ukraine due to Russian shelling and bad weather. Ukrenergo reported this.
Energy experts are asking people to use electricity sparingly in all regions of Ukraine. And between 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., it is necessary to limit the use of powerful electrical appliances.
10.23 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, 2,997 criminal proceedings have been investigated for crimes against national security, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) reports.
9.55 As a result of a Russian strike on a bus in Nikopol on the morning of April 7, three people were killed and twelve others were injured. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Oleksandr Ganzha. According to him, the occupiers attacked a city bus in the very center of Nikopol with an FPV drone. The bus was just approaching the stop, so people were both in the cabin and at the stop.
9.21 Russian troops killed one resident of the Donetsk region and wounded ten more people last day, April 6. This was reported by the head of the Donetsk Oblast Regional Administration Vadim Filashkin. According to him, the Russians killed one person in Sloviansk. Ten more people in the region were wounded during the day.
08.53 Russian troops attacked four districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones more than 10 times.
A private house was on fire in the Pokrovska community of Synelnyky district. Three other homes and a car were damaged. An 11-year-old boy died. Women aged 31 and 61 and a 33-year-old man were hospitalized in moderate condition.
In the Pavlohrad district, Pavlohrad itself and the Bohdanivska community were hit. A fire broke out. The administrative building and power lines were damaged. Two men, 52 and 66 years old, were injured and hospitalized in moderate condition.
In Apostolovy, Kryvyi Rih district, the Russians damaged infrastructure. In Nikopol, Chervonohryhorivska, and Marhanetska communities of Nikopol district, an administrative building, a private house, and a car were damaged.
08.41 On the night of April 7, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with 110 Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas attack UAVs and other types of drones, about 70 of them Shaheds.
Air defenses shot down/suppressed 77 enemy UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas type and drones of other types in the north, south and east of the country. 31 strike UAVs were hit at 14 locations, as well as the fall of downed ones (fragments) at nine locations.
08.25 Over the past 24 hours, 150 combat clashes were recorded on the front, most of them in the Pokrovsky and Konstantinovsky directions. The Defense Forces' aviation struck six areas of concentration of manpower and equipment of the Russian troops.
07.27 From February 24, 2022 to April 7, 2026, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 1,305,470 people (+980 per day).
03.50 Military intelligence has identified one of the eliminated occupiers in the Donetsk region as a Nepalese citizen, Madan Kumal. He signed a 4-year contract with the Russian army in Moscow on October 16, 2023. After five months of his service, Kumal's relatives began demanding his return and joined the protests in Nepal. They filed an appeal with the Nepalese consul, but they did not have time to return him - Kumal died during an attempt to storm Ukrainian positions.
01.22 Drones attacked the plant of JSC Mindobriva in the city of Rossosh, Voronezh region, on Monday evening. OSINT analysts write about several hits on the territory of the plant, a fire broke out there. The plant produces ammonium nitrate, which is used in the production of explosives.