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

Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine welcomed the enemy.

Ukrposhta presented new postage stamps with a Russian warship. But now the ship has reached its destination. 5 million copies are to be published in May.

Video of a Russian shell hitting warehouses in Kharkiv region.

Of the 37 destroyed or damaged bridges in the Kyiv region, 11 have already been rebuilt - Pavlyuk.

The houses in Demydov, flooded due to the destruction of the dam, are planned to be cleaned of water in a week. The works are underway, said Oleksandr Pavliuk, the head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration.

Warehouses in the Kharkiv region came under fire from the Russians. A man was killed and six civilians were injured, according to the regional prosecutor's office.

The Russians tried to storm in five directions, but without success - the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

They stormed, but lost combat capability: the 127th Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Federation withdrew from the battle, to the recovery area - the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

The enemy has established itself in Lozovo, storming the direction to Slovyansk - the evening withdrawal from the front from the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

The situation on the border with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania as of 18:00 on April 22 was published in the State Border Guard Service.

The Netherlands plans to completely abandon Russia's energy resources by the end of the year, Reuters reports, citing government statements.

802 cyberattacks on Ukraine were recorded in the first three months of 2022, the State Special Communications Service reported. There identify five hacker groups that attack most often. They are from Russia and Belarus.

Ukraine has officially addressed the Secretariat of the Energy Community, the European Union and the member states of the Energy Community Treaty with a proposal to introduce a ban on the purchase, import, transfer and transportation of energy products from Russia.

Admiral Igor Osipov, commander of the Black Sea Fleet, has been arrested in Russia, according to the Central Intelligence Agency. "Organizational conclusions" about the command of the Russian army and navy continue after the defeat of the Russian occupiers on land and the destruction of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation "Moscow".

"The leadership of the Russian army is completing the identification of favorable places for the main strikes," said Defense Ministry spokesman Alexander Motuzyanik at a briefing.

Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova told Current Time how Ukraine is returning its citizens, about Russian filtration camps, about victims of sexual violence by the Russian military.

815 shelters have Internet connection in Kyiv now.

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Serhiy Kyslytsya: "If earlier ambassadors went "to drink vodka and eat coulibiacs" to the residence of the Russian Federation at the UN, now nobody approaches Russians without a need".

The Russians reported taking control of the TV center in Mariupol. With its help, they intend to broadcast Kremlin propaganda to the entire South of Ukraine, Deutsche Welle informs.

What is with evacuation from Mariupol, "the second phase" of the war and how Russia plans to break through to the Transnistria, — Radio Donbas.Realii report.

"If you hear call-on from the military to evacuate — please, evacuate! If you do not do it, you not only prevent the army from working, you also endanger yourselves and your children! You will come back and we will rebuild everything".

In temporarily occupied Kakhovka occupants set up a torture chamber in the police station, where locals are tortured and electrocuted.

The head of the European Council Charles Michel spoke to Putin. "Strongly urged for immediate humanitarian access and safe passage from Mariupol and other besieged cities all the more on the occasion of Orthodox Easter", Michel posts on his Twitter.

Call with President Putin @KremlinRussia_E

Strongly urged for immediate humanitarian access and safe passage from #Mariupol and other besieged cities all the more on the occasion of Orthodox Easter.

— Charles Michel (@CharlesMichel) April 22, 2022

Zelenskyy said that the World Bank will provide $4.8 billion to restore the country after the war.

Putin has been using bluffing as a tool to achieve his goals since 2008, and until recently, the trick worked and the West was "folding cards," Harry Kasparov believes. He also thinks that "the last possibility for Putin's bluffing is a threat of the NATO involvement in the conflict". According to the Russian oppositionist, Putin tries to intimidate NATO with "a direct attack on a NATO convoy of weapons for Ukraine, or the use of tactical nuclear weapons, or the use of chemical weapons."

Turkey continues to try supporting "the Istanbul process" between the Russia and Ukraine and is ready to organize a dialogue between Zelenskyy and Putin in Istanbul. The information is provided by the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his conversation with journalists, according to Anadolu.

"Good Friday. The saddest day of the year. A day when everything you can do in life will weigh less than prayer. Except for one ... Except for defending the Motherland. Except for protecting fellows in battle", — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Instagram.

"A tiny car of the French brand. A family was trying to escape but was killed by Russian murderers. Killed, as it is now proved, with French weapons sold in circumvention of sanctions in 2015. Anyone in the European Union who tries to make up to Russia must see the result of their actions", the advisor to the President Mykhailo Podolyak posted on his Twitter.

Emmanuel Macron said that France provides substantial military aid, self-propelled artillery CAESAR in particular.

The light went out all over Severodonetsk, Luhansk Region, because the Russians cut the high-voltage line.

"The daytime shelling of the outskirts of Lysychansk had catastrophic consequences. Russians cut a 110 kV high-voltage line. All residential districts of Severodonetsk went out. The LEA emergency crew is working on site", the head of Luhansk Regional Administration informs.

A report from the village of Moshchun, Kyiv region, liberated from the occupants.

"В огороде растяжка была. Обезврежена или нет – не знаем"

Репортаж украинской службы Радио Свобода из села Мощун в Киевской области: pic.twitter.com/eSBtniFm5c

— Настоящее Время (@CurrentTimeTv) April 22, 2022

Boris Johnson claimed that the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are already in Britain taking a training course on the use of British armored vehicles. He also said that since last week "several dozens" of specialists from Ukraine have been learning to drive armored military vehicles "Mastiff", "Wolfhound", and "Husky". The Ukrainian military are also training to work with new AAW systems in Poland, Johnson informed, according to The National.

Diia app will provide an opportunity to register as an unemployed and receive benefits provided by the law.

Member of Parliament and one of the presidents of FC "Dynamo" Hryhoriy Surkis was detained on the border with Poland. He tries to transport expensive watches without declaring them.

The Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence believes that Russians in Mariupol will continue to assault Azovstal plant. 

"According to our data, they plan to involve Russian Guards and other structures, including FSS that will continue to assault the plant", a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense Vadym Skibitskyy says on air of the national telethon, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

Britain prepares to reopen their embassy in Kyiv, Prime Minister Boris Johnson states, according to The Guardian.

The killings of 50 civilians in Bucha, Kyiv Region, have already been fully documented by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for Human Rights.

25 people were evacuated from Popasna, Luhansk Region, the head of the Regional State Administration said. Among the evacuees: a wounded boy and a paralyzed elderly woman, a baby and its mother rescued from a bomb shelter. The Russians fired on the bus, but no one was injured.

Zelenskyy conferred the rank of Major General on the Commander of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Brigadier General Maksym Myrhorodsky.

Briefing of the deputy head of the OPU Kyrylo Tymoshenko on the restoration of infrastructure in the liberated territories.

Romania intends to return its Embassy to Kyiv, the head of the MFA Bogdan Aurescu informs at a joint press conference with Dmytro Kuleba in Bucharest.

Swedish company SKF, the largest manufacturer of bearings in the world, decided to stop any activity (business one included) in Russia.

Olympic swimming champion Yevhen Rylov was suspended from all competitions under the auspices of the International Swimming Federation for 9 months, the reason being his presence at a rally concert in Luzhnyky on March 18 wearing a jacket with the symbol "Z". Earlier his sponsor, the British company Speedo, refused to cooperate with the swimmer.

There are reasons to believe that Franch company Thales cooperated with Russia in the military sphere, bypassing the sanctions regime established in 2014 - in particular, provided thermal imagers fire control systems for Russia's BMD-4.

Moldova has completed the questionnaire in the framework of the procedure for obtaining the status of a candidate country for membership in the European Union.

Press conference of the Minister of Defense of Romania Bogdan Aurescu and the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, Live Stream.

The head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak in reply to Russia's plans "to capture the entire Donbas and southern Ukraine" said that "many Kremlin's plans have already been destroyed by the work of our Army and our people".

The Vatican has "frozen" a meeting of Pope Francis with Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, who supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine, that was previously scheduled for Jude in Jerusalem. Pope Francis himself stated it in his interview with the Argentine newspaper La Nacion. The diplomatic Service of the Vatican believes that such a meeting "might cause a serious misunderstanding".

German Сhancellor Olaf Scholz said in his interview with Der Spiegel that his main priority is "to avoid escalation on the NATO" from Russia's side. "That is why I do not focus on poll results and do not allow myself to be annoyed by intrusive calls. The consequences of the mistake will be dramatic".

The An-26 aircraft that crashed in the Zaporizhzhia region this morning belonged to Ukraine. Regional Administration informs on one dead and two injured. According to preliminary information, the aircraft hit an electric pole, after which its engine caught fire.