Russian invasion of Ukraine: tanks and rocket attacks on the cities. Breaking news

The Head of Lviv Region Military Administration refuted the information about the explosions in Yavoriv district. And reminded that the witnesses can inform about the suspicious flying objects in the chat bot -  @rusrocketfly_bot . But he also recommended not to publish photos and videos of such objects in the Internet.

The State Security Service warns of the fake chat bots created by Russia. The Service reminds about the importance of checking the information and the channels Ukrainians send data to. And also recommend to get information from the official and reliable sources.

The official chat bot of the State Security Service  - @stop_russian_war_bot

The unexpected failure with the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine will only instigate revanchism of the occupant country and in five or ten years' time Russia could try to destroy Ukraine again - the Commander of the Armed Forces of Lithuania Valdemaras Rupšys in his interview for LRT.lt.

The State Investigation Bureau together with the servicemen of the Border Guard arrested in Izmail Belorussian ship "Nadezhda" and Russian tanker "Volgoneft-268" - the web page of the SIB. 

In Kharkiv region another Russian aircraft has been shot down. According to the preliminary data of the "East" Air Command Staff, it was a two-seated fighter-bomber Su-34. 

The fire at Zolochiv railway station has been extinguished. No one was hurt - Lviv Region Military Administration.

Pentagon: The United States believe that Ukraine can win and will keep helping - the Minister of Defense Lloyd Austin after his visit to Kyiv (CNN). 

"Duliby" ethnic music group from Rivne has created a prayer song about Mariupol. 

There has already been two threats of the missile strike in Ternopil region today, the Head of Ternopil Region Military Administration Volodymyr Trush said, adding, that more threats may come. 

Co-leader of the Social-Democratic Party of Germany Saskia Esken urged the former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to leave the Party. She stated that on air of the Detrschlandfunk. This offer was caused by the allegiance of Schröder to Putin and his work with the Russian state companies. 

On Easter Day Russian occupants shelled 13 cities and villages in Donetsk region, the National Police inform. 5 civilians were killed, including 2 children, there are wounded. At least 17 civil facilities were destroyed - living estates, a school, a kids' camp, a house of culture and an industrial facility.

The EU works on the sixth sanction package against Russia. The toughest weapon against the occupants — a total can on oil and gas imports — will still be absent.

Ukrainian Intelligence informs: Russia has not given up plans to use chemical weapons on the territory of the Azovstal plant. Occupants will try to "smoke out" civilians and units of the Ukrainian army.

Russian occupants in Mariupol try to create "an allusion of restoration and improvement". They plan to resettle Mariupol residents in the so-called zones of safe compact resettlement, with 5-6 families in one building. It is known that now occupants call to those who left the city and demand them to return, the deputy mayor of the city Petro Andryushchenko informs.

At about 8:30 a.m. on April 25, a rocket strike caused an explosion at the traction substation of the Krasne railway station in the Lviv region, the head of Lviv RMA Maksym Kozytskyy informs. Casualties are not confirmed.

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Ukrzaliznytsya renews information about train delays due to the infrastructure damage as a result of the shelling:
№6250 Berdychiv – Kozyatyn (+ 1 h 30 min);
№6252 Shepetivka – Kozyatyn (+ 1 h 30 min);
№6301 Kozyatyn – Zhmerynka (+ 1 h 40 min);
№6304 Zhmerynka – Kozyatyn (+ 30 min);
№6343 Zhmerynka – Hrechany (+ 1 h 41 min);
№6342 Hrechany – Zhmerynka (+ 10 min);
№6321 Zhmerynka – Vapnyarka (+ 1 h);
№6203 Fastiv – Kozyatyn (+ 53 min);
№6206 Kozyatyn – Fastiv (+ 2 h 2 min);
№868 Hrechany – Kyiv (+ 1 h 10 min);
№804/803 Rivne – Lviv (+ 1 h);
№816/815 Lviv – Chernivtsi (+ 1 h 35 min);
№6041 Ternopil – Lviv (+ 42 min);
№6042 Lviv – Ternopil (+ 1 h 22 min);
№6353 Zlobudniv – Kovel (+ 1 h 17 min);
№6092 Lviv – Zlobudniv (no departure yer);
№6093 Zlobudniv – Lviv (+ 1 h 19 min);
№6187 Lviv – Mukachevo (delayed at Sknyliv station + 40 min).

The head of Luhansk RSA Serhiy Haidai about evacuation: 12 residents of Severodonetsk are headed to safe places. A bus did not reach Rubizhne due to the shelling. "Buses wait for the residents of the region every morning but still head to the trains half-empty", Haidai complaints. The situation in Popasna and Rubizhne is different. Residents would be happy to leave but the Russians do not allow it, systematically firing on our evacuation busses (one of them is already lost). Over 60 000 people are staying in the free part of the Luhansk region.

In the Luhansk region occupants practically destroyed all health facilities. From the beginning of the full-scale war, the Russian Army has ruined 347 health facilities, 36 of which cannot be restored. In the Luhansk region, all medical facilities and hospitals are damaged or destroyed, Ombudswomen Lyudmyla Denisova informs.

The head of Vinnytsya RSA Serhiy Borzov tells about today's strikes in the region: Zhmerynka and Kozyatyn are under missile fire. The enemy tries to hit the objects of critical infrastructure. There are casualties.

The Ground Forces show how Ukrainian Artillery works.

Occupants de-energized the new Kreminna substation with a voltage of 500 kV -- whole Luhansk region is without power, — the head of Luhansk RSA Serhiy Haidai informs. Earlier electricity was coming from Luhansk TPP in the city of Shchastya. Transformer units of the latter were destroyed by the enemy, the Russians are unable to repair them. That is why the substation in Kreminna has remained the only source of electricity supply to the homes of Luhansk residents up until today.

The address of the President of Ukraine. About the shelling at Easter, occupied territories, the work of the AFU, the meeting with US representatives, special plan to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation and support Ukraine.

Russians attack other regions of Ukraine from the Black Sea and attempt to renew the intensity of air reconnaissance on the territory of Odesa city and region, the spokesman of Odesa RMA Serhiy Bratchuk informs. Despite the attempts of the Russians to activate their air reconnaissance, Ukrainian AAW forces effectively control the sky. The RF also continues to attempt to exert psychological pressure on the residents of the region through informational and psychological operations and fakes.

The head of Lviv RSA Maksym Kozytskyy spoke on the details of the morning strike in the Lviv region. As a result of a missile hit an explosion on a traction station at the Krasne railway station happened. The SESU is still extinguishing the fire. No information on the casualties. One missile was destroyed by the "Zakhid" (the West) Air Command subdivisions of anti-aircraft missile forces. The missiles were launched to the West of Ukraine from the south-eastern direction, the Russian occupants fired them from strategic aircrafts, probably Tu-95.

Due to the damage to traction substations, there is no voltage in the catenary at the sites of Shepetivka — Kozyatyn, Zhmerynka — Kozyatyn, Kozyatyn — Fastiv, Ukrzaliznytsya informs. Due to this, 16 trains are delayed. The delay is from 30 minutes to four hours, depending on the route.

The enemy prepares for the assault in the Zaporizhzhia region. The Zaporizhzhia region prepares for the defense. According to the Regional Military Administration, Russian occupation forces gathered a lot of equipment and personnel on the front line of Velzka Novosilka — Novodarivka — Malynivka. The enemy attempts to move in the direction of the Zaporizhzhia region but it does not go well, so the position of forces at the front stays the same.

The SSU published an occupant's correspondence with a friend, which shows a "continuous hell" arranged for the Russians in the Kherson region by the Armed Forces. This occupant is now in Biloozerka in the Kherson region and tells his friend about the killed invaders.

The enemy fired two missiles at the railway infrastructure of the Rivne region. There are no casualties, the losses are being established, Rivne Regional Military Administration informs. The head of Ukrzaliznytsya Oleksandr Kamyshin informs about the shelling of 5 railway stations in the central and western parts of Ukraine this morning.

New address of the head of Mykolaiv RSA Vitaliy Kim. Occupants tried to assault again and were defeated by the AFU. Kim also informs that according to the unconfirmed information the occupants were shot by barrier troops during the retreat, and their bodies were burned.
"The smoke and smell were awful, they say", Kim stated and offers occupants to surrender to stay alive.

This night occupants fired on the Novolativka community in the Dnipro region with multiple rocket launchers, the head of Dnipro RSA Valentyn Reznichenko informs. The outskirts of the settlement were hit. No casualties.

Military TV shows how the church looks after occupants have paid a visit. An architectural monument in one of the liberated areas in the North of Ukraine was destroyed and mined.

78 095 explosive devices and 557,4 kg of explosives were neutralized on the territory of Ukraine after the beginning of the full-scale military invasion of the RF, including 1 955 aviation bombs. 13 433,94 hectares of the territory have been examined, the SESU informs.

In Zdolbuniv, Rivne region, two explosions were heard. Electricity and the Internet disappeared afterward. The information is provided by the city mayor Vladyslav Sukhlyak, who asked the residents of the city to not publish any photos or videos.

In the Zaporizhzhia region, on April 21, three Russian helicopters were destroyed. "Shot with "Ihla". A young man was shooting who learned how to use it ["Ihla"] a day before. He did it on his birthday", said Alpha, commander of the unit whose soldiers destroyed the Ka-52.

Ukraine's defense of Mariupol has exhausted many Russian units and reduced their combat effectiveness, British Intelligence states. The decision to besiege Azovstal rather than attack it means the inability of Russian subdivisions to redeploy, many of which remain fixed in Mariupol. British Intelligence also informs that Russia has gained minor advances after concentrating on the full occupation of Donbas. The RF will not be able to achieve a significant breakthrough without sufficient logistical and combat support.

Yesterday in the central square of Irpin servicemen of the 243rd Battalion of the Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine took an oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people, and also received awards "For Merit to the Сity of Irpin", the city mayor Oleksandr Markushyn informs.

Residents of the Lviv region were urged to stay in shelters, the AAW is working this morning, the head of Lviv RMA Maksym Kozytskyy informs.

Explosions were heard in the Vinnytsya region, Suspilne.Vinnytsya informs. No details confirmed.

Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office told about the consequences of the Avdiivka Coke Plant shelling. Yesterday occupants fired on one of the biggest enterprises of the coke industry in the state with the multiple rocket launcher. The third battery of the first coke plant, CHP, and capture plant was damaged.

As a result of yesterday's shelling of Kremenchuk in the Poltava region one person died, seven were injured, the head of Poltava RMA Dmytro Lunin informs. He notes that this was the largest shelling of the region during the full-scale Russian invasion: 9 missiles hit the Kremenchuk CHP and again at the Kremenchuk refinery. There is significant damage to buildings, but all fires are localized. There is no hot water in almost all districts of the city due to the shelling of the CHP.

Over 606 children have already suffered from the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Prosecutor General's Office informs. 215 children have died, and more than 381 are injured. Most children suffered in the Donetsk region — 124, in the Kyiv region — 114, in the Kharkiv region — 93, In the Chernihiv region — 66, in the Kherson region — 44, in Mykolaiv region — 43, in Luhansk region — 37, in the Zaporizhzhia region — 27, in the Sumy region — 17, in Kyiv city — 16, in the Zhytomyr region — 15.

Dozens of Bucha civilians who died during the Russian occupation of the city were killed by tiny metal "darts" from Russian artillery, The Guardian informs referring to forensic expert Vladyslav Pirovskyy. These little metal darts are so-called fléchettes that doctors found in the heads and chests of people. According to The Guardian, independent experts confirmed that those are anti-personnel weapons widely used during the First World War.

During Blinken's visit to Kyiv, the US promised new aid of $ 713 million for Ukraine and countries in the region, where Russia's invasion has raised fears of further aggression by Moscow, according to Reuters.

Prime Minister of Great Britain Boris Johnson discussed in his telephone conversation with the UN Secretary-General António Guterres the assaults of the Russians in the occupied cities of Ukraine, such as Mariupol and Kherson, and also the necessity to provide a cease-fire, support of humanitarian aid and the help for civilians to leave.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin visited Kyiv on Sunday, CNN informs. During the meeting, Blinken promised the US Embassy to return to Ukraine this week and confirmed the US intention to appoint diplomat Bridget Brink as Ambassador to Ukraine. She currently heads the US Embassy in Slovakia.