[Korrespondent] 23.26 Russian occupiers have advanced in the area of ​​the city of Rodynske, Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region. Over the past day, the area under enemy control has increased by 0.19 sq. km. This is reported by the OSINT project DeepState.
22.49 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that restrictions on oil and gas supplies in the European Union's new package of sanctions against Russia will have "grave consequences" against the backdrop of global resource shortages. Reuters reports.
The day before, the European Union adopted the 20th package of sanctions against Russia after Slovakia and Hungary lifted their objections amid the resumption of supplies via the Druzhba oil pipeline.
"We will take retaliatory measures. They will be tough, designed in accordance with our interests," Zakharova said.
22.16 Russia has expanded the launch infrastructure at one of its unmanned military facilities to support new jet drones used in attacks on Ukraine, according to satellite images obtained by Business Insider.
According to the materials, the base is located in the Oryol region of the Russian Federation, approximately 160 km from the border with Ukraine. Four launch rails have been recorded at the facility, two of which have an elongated design.
According to analysts, the construction of the extended rails, about 85 meters long, began in late December 2025. Two more shorter structures appeared in late March or early April 2026.
Analysts note that different types of launchers can be designed to launch different modifications of Geranium -type drones, which Russia uses to strike Ukraine.
21.33 Since the start of the full-scale war, at least 127 incidents have been recorded that jeopardized nuclear and radiation safety, according to a report by the DiXi Group think tank.
According to analysts, all cases were confirmed by IAEA reports, official Ukrainian government sources, and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and posed a threat to nuclear and radiation safety.
At the same time, 54 incidents, or 42.5% of the total, occurred at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant.
20.50 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit to Cyprus agreed on contributions to the PURL program. This was stated by Minister of Foreign Affairs Andriy Sybiga in a statement about the new agreements on the air of the United News.
20.32 The fire at the Tuapse marine terminal, which broke out after a drone attack on April 20, has been completely extinguished. This was announced by the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev, on his Telegram channel.
19.29 France has offered Greece an agreement to transfer all of its Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine. In return, Athens will have favorable terms for purchasing Rafale fighter jets from Dassault Aviation. This is reported by the French newspaper Le Figaro.
19.01 Currently, there are no signs of a decrease in the flow of American weapons supplies to the Ukrainian army within the framework of the PURL initiative. This was stated by the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
18.41 The European Union is practicing "double standards" in its policy regarding the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as it refuses to "punish" Israel for its actions in the region. This was stated by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, EFE reports.
18.28 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a productive meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman Al Saud in Jeddah. They discussed the implementation of the strategic security agreement in three key areas.
18.08 A Ukrainian military officer disrupted an event to recruit Russian students into the Russian army. This is evidenced by a video clip that has been posted online.
18.03 In the temporarily occupied territory (TOT) of the Kherson region, a base of the Russian FSB was destroyed. This was reported by the Telegram channel Spy's Dossier. The strike on the FSB unit was carried out by drones on the night of April 23. The base was located in the village of Schaslyvtsevo.
17.47 As of April 19, 47% of Russians have noticed anxiety among their relatives, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. This is evidenced by the results of a weekly FOM survey.
17.09 Drones attacked Russian Dagestan. This was reported by the Astra publication in its Telegram channel.
Residents of the city of Kaspiysk in Dagestan reported explosions and drone flights.
16.49 From the beginning of the current day until 16:00, the Russian occupiers carried out 112 attacks, which is almost four times higher than the figure for Thursday as of this time. Such data was published by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational summary on Friday.
16.19 An FSB agent who was detained in November 2022 for coordinating missile and drone strikes on the city was sentenced to 15 years in Odesa. The SBU press service reported this.
As the investigation established, the agent drove around the regional center in a car and recorded Defense Forces bases on a hidden video recorder.
He stored the collected information on a memory card, which he later planned to transfer to a curator from the Russian Federation.
If the Russians received intelligence, they planned to use it to guide missile weapons and attack drones to the locations of Ukrainian troops.
SBU officers acted proactively and detained the traitor while attempting to transmit intelligence information to the aggressor country.
16.05 Ukraine returned 193 servicemen from Russian captivity. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this on Telegram.
The peculiarity of the current exchange is that it was possible to return from captivity soldiers born in the 2000s, as well as wounded defenders.
14:50 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Saudi Arabia, where he is scheduled to meet with Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman Al Saud. The head of state announced this on Facebook.
14.28 Four hostile agitators have been detained in different regions of Ukraine. The perpetrators supported the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, called for shelling Ukrainian cities and torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war. The SBU reported this on April 24.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, an archimandrite, former rector of the church of the Seversko-Donetsk eparchy of the UOC (MP), was exposed for justifying the crimes of racists and waiting for the complete occupation of Ukraine.
It was established that after the seizure of part of the Luhansk region in 2014, the cleric traveled to the Russian Federation to enlist the support of the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church. Upon returning to Ukraine, he conducted liturgies in one of the churches in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where he incited parishioners to support the Kremlin regime.
In addition, the cleric justified Russian shelling of Ukrainian cities in personal correspondence with acquaintances.
13:49 Russian aggressors struck the city of Balakliya with four "Shahed" drones. Two people were killed and there were wounded, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office reported.
13.05 Ukrainian military inflicted critical damage on the facilities of the Atlant Aero enterprise in Taganrog, Russia. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Neptun cruise missiles destroyed two and damaged four production facilities of the Atlant Aero enterprise in Taganrog. pic.twitter.com/HCuQC61lYx
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12.59 The border with the Russian Federation has actually become a front line, where active fighting and intensive shelling using aviation, artillery, and drones continue. This was stated by the spokesman for the State Border Service of Ukraine (SBSU) Andriy Demchenko on the air of the United News.
12.50 Two people died as a result of yesterday's Russian shelling between the settlements of Tomina Balka and Rozlyv. This was reported by the head of the Kherson OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin, on April 24. According to him, a 43-year-old man and a woman, whose identity is currently being established, received non-life-threatening injuries.
12.03 The aggressor country Russia is trying to organize artificial protests in Cyprus. These actions are directed against EU policy, the decision to provide Ukraine with a loan of 90 billion euros, as well as with the aim of discrediting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Center for Countering Disinformation (CDC) at the National Security and Defense Council reported.
11.38 Russians attack civilians in Kherson region with drones in the morning - it is currently known that two people were killed, three were injured. Two people riding a moped were killed in the suburbs of Kherson. This was reported by the Kherson MVA on April 24. It is noted that at about 7.00 in the suburbs of Kherson, Russian terrorists hit a moped with two people riding on it with a drone. They died on the spot. A 68-year-old man and a woman, whose identity is currently being established by the relevant services, received injuries incompatible with life.
11.20 On Friday morning, Russian Shahed attack drones attacked Kyiv. One of the drones flew into a lake. It is alleged that this happened in the Novobelichi area.
10.59 In the Donetsk region, an agent of the Russian military intelligence (GRU) was detained, who was transmitting to the enemy coordinates for new shelling of Kramatorsk and tracking armored vehicles of the Defense Forces for arson. The SBU reported this. The man was a member of a local group that was engaged in looting at enemy landing sites.
10.51 The FSB of the Russian Federation reported the detention of seven "adherents of right-wing radical and neo-fascist ideology" who were allegedly preparing a terrorist attack against the leadership of Roskomnadzor. It was planned that a car would be blown up. This is reported by Russian media and TG channels. It is noted that the head of the group was a 22-year-old Muscovite, who resisted and started shooting. He was killed. A 1 kg IED, an F-1 grenade, a PM pistol with a silencer, two gas pistols, walkie-talkies, as well as "neo-Nazi paraphernalia, symbols of Ukrainian nationalists and instructions for joining a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation" were seized. It is alleged that the detainees were allegedly recruited by Ukrainian special services via Telegram.
10.31 On Friday morning, power outages were recorded in 13 regions of Ukraine due to new shelling by Russian aggressors and bad weather. Ukrenergo reported this. Power engineers are already carrying out emergency restoration work where security conditions currently allow.
10.25 In Ukraine, more than 12 thousand former prisoners have already joined the ranks of the Armed Forces within the framework of a special mechanism that has been in effect since 2024. It allows certain categories of convicts to voluntarily go into service in exchange for exemption from punishment.
This was reported by Deputy Minister of Justice Yevgeny Pikalov. According to him, the state attracts exclusively volunteers who undergo careful selection. About 1,500 applications are considered every month. The average age of candidates is 30-35 years. The program admits mainly persons convicted of non-serious crimes. At the same time, those who have committed serious violent crimes or crimes against national security cannot participate.
9.56 On the front, 194 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops took place during the day. The invaders are most active in the Pokrov and Hulyaipil directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on April 24. Over the past day, the Defense Forces' aviation struck four areas of concentration of enemy manpower.
9.20 As a result of Russian drone strikes on the night of April 24, a merchant ship under the flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis was damaged while moving along the Ukrainian sea corridor, heading to one of the ports in the Odessa region. This was reported by the Sea Ports Authority. It is noted that the bulk carrier was hit by two drones. As a result of the attack, a fire broke out on board. It was extinguished by the crew. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties.
8.57 On the night of April 24, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 107 strike drones, and air defense neutralized 96 enemy drones. The Air Force reported this. Two ballistic missiles and 10 strike drones were hit at 9 locations, as well as the fall of downed drones (fragments) at 2 locations.
8.40 The General Staff announced the dismissal of the commanders of the 14th Brigade and the 10th Corps after information became public the day before about the poor provision of the fighters of the 14th Brigade, who are in the Kharkiv direction and are systematically left without food and water.
8.13 Russian troops attacked three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 10 times with drones and artillery. Two people were injured. This was reported on April 23 by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Oleksandr Ganzha. According to him, a fire broke out in Kryvyi Rih. Infrastructure was damaged. Two men were injured. In the Nikopol community, the Nikopol, Marhanetska, Chervonogryhorivska and Pokrovska communities were under attack. In the Bogynivska community, which is in the Synelnykyvska community, a fire broke out due to a Russian attack.
7.50 The Armed Forces of Ukraine killed and wounded 910 Russian occupiers over the past 24 hours, the total enemy losses in the war amounted to 1,323,460 people. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on April 24.
03.25 Russian troops attacked Odessa with drones. City authorities reported hitting three residential buildings. Apartments on two floors were destroyed. Three people were injured.