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[Korrespondent] 21.49 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has expressed his willingness to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but under certain conditions. This was stated by the Russian leader's press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
According to him, such negotiations should be productive and take place at the stage of finalizing agreements.
18.52 Ukraine will receive 100 VAMTAC armored tactical vehicles and a batch of 155-mm artillery shells from Spain in 2026. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported this on its Telegram channel, referring to the statement of the Head of the Ministry of Defense of Spain Margarita Robles during a visit to Kyiv after a meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart Mikhail Fedorov.
Deliveries will begin in May. The armored vehicles will be transferred to reinforce the units of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
18.37 The Security Service of Ukraine is investigating 116 criminal proceedings on the facts of the executions of 306 Ukrainian prisoners of war committed by Russian military personnel from February 2022 to April 2026. This was reported by the head of the Main Investigation Department of the SBU, Andriy Shvets, in an interview with Censor.NET.
According to him, from February 2022 to April 2026, a total of 116 criminal proceedings are being investigated into the executions of 306 Ukrainian prisoners of war on the battlefield.
17.49 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Rustem Umerov held talks with representatives of India and Bahrain, and Ukraine is now working out the parameters of security cooperation with these states. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported this on Telegram.
16.22 Since the beginning of the current day and as of 16:00, the Russian army has organized 49 attacks on eight directions of the front, which is significantly less than Tuesday's figures. There is currently a lull in five directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational summary.
14.55 FSB officers who tortured residents of Luhansk region after the start of a full-scale war have been reported in absentia. The SBU reported this on April 22. It is noted that the Security Service has collected evidence on collaborators Valery Kravchenko and Dmytro Kirdeyev, who are carrying out repressions against residents of the temporarily occupied Luhansk region.
13.57 At noon on April 22, Russian troops attacked the Korabelny district of Kherson with UAVs. A 55-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man were hit by the enemy attack. This was reported by the Kherson OVA. Later it became known that another man was taken to the hospital, who was injured in a Russian drone strike on the Korabelny district of Kherson.
13.20 A fraudulent scheme for misappropriating charitable contributions to the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been dismantled in Kyiv. The dealers stole almost UAH 1.5 million that Ukrainian volunteers paid for FPV drones and ammunition for the needs of the front. The SBU reported this on April 22. It is noted that the illegal activity was organized by a capital-based entrepreneur who was engaged in online trading in components for UAVs and military equipment. To implement the deal, he created a website and an Instagram page through which benefactors could order drone systems for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also on these Internet platforms, the person in question promised potential customers fast and high-quality deliveries of military products. But as soon as payment was received, the attacker supplied customers with defective goods or took the money altogether and did not get in touch.
12.24 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that during the work of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative, more than 2,100 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia were returned home, 150 of them since the beginning of 2026.
"I listened to the report of the representatives of the Bring Kids Back UA team, Oleksandr Bevz and Maksym Maksymov, on the results of the initiative. In total, during the initiative's work, we managed to return more than 2,100 Ukrainian children who were abducted by Russia. 150 of them - since the beginning of this year. I thank all the partners who help us with this," Zelenskyy noted.
On 12.12, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi, during another working trip, met with the leadership of the offensive group, and also worked with units in the Pokrovsky direction. He reported this on Telegram.
11.56 Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles arrived in Kyiv on a visit. The Spanish Defense Ministry announced this the day before. She will hold a number of official meetings with representatives of the Ukrainian authorities and will receive the Order of Princess Olga, 3rd degree.
11.28 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said that Russia continues to actively recruit citizens of African countries for the war against Ukraine. Such cases have also become more frequent in Latin America.
"We see a dangerous trend of Russia recruiting citizens of some or many African countries into its army," he noted.
According to him, this immediately stimulated the appeal of many African countries to Ukraine to help them return their citizens.
11.11 On April 21-22, the Ukrainian military struck a number of important targets of the Russian invaders in the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) and in the Russian Federation. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported details.
10.49 On Wednesday morning, power outages were recorded in four regions of Ukraine due to new shelling by Russian aggressors. This was reported by Ukrenergo. The situation is currently most difficult in Sumy region. A significant number of consumers there have lost power due to damage to energy facilities by the enemy.
10.36 An FSB agent was exposed and detained in Odessa, who was preparing the assassination of the commander of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The SBU reported this.
To prepare the assassination attempt, the Russians recruited a woman through the Moscow office of Viktor Medvedchuk's political project, "Drugaya Ukraina."
10.25 The State Sports Administration of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, in the section Champions of Terror of the War&Sanctions portal, publishes data on 11 Russian athletes, coaches and functionaries who, despite supporting the war against Ukraine, continue to participate in international competitions. This is reported by the State Sports Administration. These are representatives of the Central Sports Club of the Russian Army (CSKA), subordinate to the Ministry of Defense of the aggressor state. This structure systematically supports the occupation troops - provides them with equipment, FPV drones, equipment, and is also involved in the military-patriotic education of children and promotes the development of international cooperation, in particular within the framework of the World War Games project.
9.48 On the front of the past day, April 21, 231 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the Russian invaders were recorded. More than 50 assaults were repelled in the Pokrovsky direction. This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces struck seven areas of concentration of manpower and a Russian UAV control point.
9.17 In the Yampil community of the Sumy region, a person died on the night of April 22 as a result of a Russian drone strike on residential buildings. This was reported by the head of the Sumy regional military administration, Oleg Grigorov. According to him, at night the enemy launched a massive strike on a village in the Yampil community. Russian UAVs hit residential buildings. Fires broke out at the sites of the strikes. The body of a deceased civilian was found in one of the houses. The identity is being established.
8.35 Air defense forces neutralized 189 of the 215 drones used by Russian invaders to attack Ukraine. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on April 22. 24 strike UAVs were hit at 13 locations, as well as falling debris at six locations.
8.10 As a result of a massive attack by Russian strike drones on the night of April 22, port facilities in the Odessa region were damaged. This was reported by the head of the Odessa Regional State Administration, Oleg Kiper. According to him, at night the enemy again massively attacked the Odessa region with strike drones. The port infrastructure was hit. Despite the active work of the air defense, damage to port facilities was recorded. There were no casualties.
7.52 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed 1,140 Russian occupiers over the past 24 hours. The total combat losses of Russian troops since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022 to April 22, 2026, amount to about 1,321,450 people. The General Staff reported this on April 22.
7.23 On the night of April 22, the Russians launched strikes on the Dnieper, causing fires in the city. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Oleksandr Ganzha.
06.00 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized the situation in which key American negotiators easily visit Moscow and hold meetings in the Kremlin, but have never visited Kyiv. As the BBC reports, Zelensky called this position of the US President's special envoy Stephen Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner "disrespectful".
05.28 Drones attacked the Russian city of Syzran on the night of Wednesday, April 22. In particular, there were explosions near an oil refinery. Eyewitnesses reported that at about three in the morning powerful explosions were heard, the number of which exceeded a dozen. In addition, bright flashes can be observed over the city. As a result of the work of Russian air defense/electronic warfare, damage to a residential building was recorded.
04.29 On the night of Wednesday, April 22, a series of explosions were heard in occupied Sevastopol. The so-called local "authorities" announced the operation of the air defense system (ADF) and announced the alleged destruction of a number of targets.
03.01 Ukraine will resume oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline on Wednesday afternoon, April 22. This was part of Kyiv's efforts to obtain a 90 billion euro loan from the EU, Reuters reports.
00.55 On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, April 22, an enemy drone hit an infrastructure facility in Kharkiv. The incident was reported by the city's mayor, Igor Terekhov, on his Telegram channel, noting that it was a Molniya drone. According to Terekhov, there were no injuries.
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[NewsFront] 21:21 In the period from 16:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flew over the Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk regions. 20:55 Drone operators of the North and West groups shot down Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in the skies over the Khar'kov region.
FPV drone crews from the Vostok group destroyed an enemy field ammunition depot and strongholds in the Zaporizhzhia region.
UAV operators from the Burevestnik unmanned aerial vehicle regiment of the Southern Group's Volunteer Corps hit a temporary deployment point for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount.
Attack drone crews from the Center group disrupted the rotation, burned camouflaged artillery pieces, and grounded Ukrainian Armed Forces reconnaissance drones in the Dobropillya direction.
19:33 Calculation of the 122mm towed howitzer D-30 destroyed a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel in the Dnipropetrovsk direction.
18:53 FPV drone operator inflicted nn attack on a combat group of the 21st Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during its transfer to the village of Myropillya in the Sumy region, where fierce fighting is currently taking place.
18:34 As a result of the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area a civilian was wounded.
An enemy drone attacked a civilian vehicle in the village of Korenevo in the Korenevsky District. A 43-year-old man was injured: he suffered a shrapnel wound to his right forearm, a fractured hand, an ulna, a right hip, and a knee, and an open fracture of the right tibia.
17:12 In the period from 08:00 to 16:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 40 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions.
15:59 Two civilians suffered from further attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones.
In the city of Grayvoron, an FPV drone struck a passenger car, injuring the driver. Orlan soldiers transported the victim to the Grayvoron Central District Hospital, where he was diagnosed with a mine blast injury, barotrauma, and a shrapnel wound to the forearm. After receiving medical treatment, he was sent home for outpatient treatment. The car was damaged by fire.
In the village of Nikolskoye, Belgorod District, a drone detonated in the parking lot of a retail outlet. A 15-year-old boy, who was nearby at the time of the attack, suffered blind shrapnel wounds to his abdomen. An ambulance crew is taking him to the regional children's hospital. Four cars were damaged at the scene.
15:23 Our UAV operators left enemy drone pilots without communications
In a forested area near Zapsel'ye (Krasnopolsky district, Sumy region), our UAV operators uncovered and destroyed the antenna of the notorious Starlink complex.
14:48 Zaporizhzhia direction Eastern flank
The Eastern Group of Forces continues its offensive in the western sector.
Fierce head-on fighting is taking place on the Vozdvizhevka-Verkhnyaya Tersa line, where the Russian Armed Forces continue to break through to the Lyubitskoye-Omelnik line.
Despite the Ukrainian Armed Forces' earlier breakthrough near Tsvetkovoye toward Svyatopetrivka, the Russian Armed Forces continued to exploit their gains in the southern part of Verkhnyaya Tersa and reached its central part. The supply route along Road O-081344 came under the physical control of our units.
The enemy penetration near Tsvetkovoye and Petrovka (Svyatopetrivka) is being eliminated. The Ukrainian Armed Forces were unable to break through to Hulyaipole here and to Zheleznodorozhne (Zaliznychne) near Staroukrainka.
Our units have regained control of the eastern outskirts of Tsvetkovo and the ravine to the east. The enemy still holds strongholds of the 3rd defensive line between Tsvetkovo and Krinichnoye in the ravine area and the western outskirts of Petrovka (Svyatopetrivka).
Fighting in the southern part of Vozdvizhevka, where our attack aircraft drove the enemy out of the 2nd stronghold, and further south, in the area of Tokovaya ravine, where the Russian Armed Forces are developing a penetration between Vozdvizhevka and Verkhnyaya Tersa and attacking in the direction of the old airfield.
South of Verkhnyaya Tersa our units advanced in the direction of Gorky – Komsomolskoye (Gulyai-Polye), further south they are attacking Charivnoye.
14:27 Units of the "North" force group have improved their tactical position. Formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' assault regiment and six territorial defense brigades have been defeated near the settlements of Malaya Slobodka, Novodmitrivka, Novi Virki, Pisarevka, and Stetskovka in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov region, the manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a National Guard brigade, and three border detachments of the Ukrainian Border Service were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Velykyi Burluk, Veseloe, Izbitskoe, Mala Vovcha, Rubizhne, and Skoryki in the Khar'kov region.
The enemy lost more than 200 troops, an armored personnel carrier, 16 vehicles, a field artillery gun, three US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery stations and an Israeli-made RADA radar station, an electronic warfare station, an ammunition depot and seven supply depots.
Units of the "West" force grouping have improved their position along the forward edge. Formations of two mechanized brigades and an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated near the settlements of Borovaya and Petrovka in the Khar'kov region, and Krasny Liman, Prishib, and Tatyanovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 200 servicemen, two US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, a Cossack armored fighting vehicle, 16 vehicles, and three artillery pieces. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces have occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They have inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of five mechanized brigades, a mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Kostiantynivka, Nikanorivka, Rai-Aleksandrivka, Stenki, and Tikhonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 135 troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored combat vehicles, 14 vehicles, three field artillery pieces, and an electronic warfare station. Two ammunition depots and four supply depots were destroyed.
Units of the Center Group of Forces have improved their tactical position. Four mechanized brigades, an airborne assault brigade, and an airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two naval infantry brigades, the Azov special forces brigade, and four National Guard brigades were defeated near the settlements of Kucheriv Yar, Novonikolaevka, Lenina, Svetloe, Sergeyevka, Belitskoye, Shilovka, Toretskoye, Kalinino, and Dobropolye in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Novohryhorivka and Novopavlivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to over 325 servicemen, four combat armored vehicles, nine cars and two field artillery pieces.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. Formations of three mechanized brigades, an airborne assault brigade, two assault brigades, and five assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated near the settlements of Oleksandrivka, Gavrilovka, Lesnoye, and Malomykhailivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Barvinovka, Vozdvizhevka, Charivne, and Lyubitske in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The enemy lost up to 230 servicemen, an armored personnel carrier, two armored combat vehicles and six cars.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov, Yurkivka in the Zaporizhzhia region and Zmievka in the Kherson region.
13:59 Ukrainian Armed Forces drone in Belgorod attacked a repair crew was restoring a civilian facility. One person was killed, the other was seriously injured.
According to the governor, at the time of the drone attack, two workers were on the roof of a commercial building repairing damage from a previous drone attack.
The drone deliberately struck a man, who died at the scene from his injuries. The other man suffered shrapnel wounds to the head and forearm, and a traumatic amputation of a finger. The victim is being taken to the hospital.
13:17 Attack aircraft from the Dnepr group in buggies captured an important stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region, video.
12:50 Tank crew of the T-90M "Breakthrough" worked at the locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the Krasnolimansk direction.
12:10 In Belgorod, as a result of an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on a commercial facility one civilian was killed and another was injured.
At the time of the drone attack, two workers were repairing damage to the roof of a commercial building following a previous drone attack. The drone deliberately struck a man, who died at the scene from his injuries.
Another man suffered shrapnel wounds to the head and forearm, and an amputated finger. An ambulance crew took him to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2.
11:01 The Investigative Committee of Russia willinvestigatecriminal actions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against civilians in the Samara, Bryansk and Belgorod regions
According to local authorities, a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attack in Syzran, Samara Oblast, resulted in a partial collapse of the entrance to an apartment building. There are casualties.
In the Bryansk region, a civilian was killed and a man was injured as a result of Ukrainian armed aggression.
In the Belgorod region, a woman and a man were injured during an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:13 In Syzran after an attack by an enemy drone killed two people: an adult woman and a child. Their bodies were recovered from the rubble of the destroyed entrance.
9:20 Summary about the operational situation in the Kursk region over the past 24 hours.
In total, 16 enemy drones of various types were shot down between 09:00 on April 21 and 07:00 on April 22.
8:30 In the Bryansk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked civilian car. The driver was injured.
The crime was committed in the village of Novy Ropsk in the Klimovsky district. Ukrainian terrorists attacked a civilian vehicle using an FPV drone.
A civilian was injured in the terrorist attack. The man was taken to the hospital, where he received all necessary medical care.
8:24 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 155 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of Kursk, Samara, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Saratov, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Volgograd, Rostov regions, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Black Sea.
8:07 Artillerymen of the Vostok group inflicted strikes on enemy positions in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The jet fighters destroyed the locations of Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves.
The 152mm 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled gun crew destroyed the UAV operators' shelters and enemy manpower.
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[Regnum] Attackers are attempting to gain access to users' routers in order to steal their data and use the router as a tool for attacks. This was reported on April 22 by the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Cyber Police Department for Combating the Illegal Use of Information and Communications Technologies.
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By gaining access to a router, an attacker can control all internet traffic on the network, putting all connected devices, including smartphones and computers, at risk, the department noted.
By changing the settings, a criminal can redirect the user to fake websites and obtain logins, passwords, and payment information, as well as use the router as a tool for attacks, with activity originating from the user's IP address.
Furthermore, the department noted that access to hacked devices is sold, and illegal activities can also be carried out through them, with the user again being held responsible.
Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that approximately 25 million Android devices may have been infected with malware. Infected smartphones opened specific websites in hidden windows without the owners' knowledge, and through these "views," the attackers inflated ad traffic and generated revenue. The Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that the malicious code most often disguised itself as harmless apps, including flashlights and memory cleaners. The agency recommended installing apps only from trusted sources and carefully considering the permissions requested during installation.
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[Regnum] Aircraft from six NATO countries were deployed to intercept two Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers, as well as the Su-30 and Su-35 fighter jets escorting them, over the Baltic Sea. This was reported on April 21 by the American television channel ABC News.
According to the channel, French Rafale, Swedish JAS 39 Gripen, as well as fighter jets from Finland, Poland, Denmark and Romania were put on alert.
Sweden noted that its Air Force followed Russian bombers near Gotland Island, maintaining visual contact until they reached the Danish island of Bornholm. The Russian Tu-22M3s then turned around and headed back.
On April 20, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that Tu-22M3 long-range bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces had carried out a scheduled flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. They were escorted by Su-35 aircraft crews. The flight lasted over four hours. At certain stages of the flight, the Russian bombers were escorted by foreign fighter jets. All flights by Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft are conducted in strict compliance with international airspace regulations, the Ministry of Defense emphasized.
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All flights by Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft are conducted in strict compliance with international airspace regulations, the Ministry of Defense emphasized.
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