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

Kramatorsk missile strike. Bellingcat investigators have collected evidence of Russian guilt.

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The mayor of Oleshky, Kherson region: The invaders entered the city and flew a Russian flag in it. Public utility services are still operating. Local patrolmen refuse to collaborate with the Russians.

The actions of the Russian Federation are recognized as a genocide of the Ukrainian people according to a resolution adopted by the Verkhovna Rada, said MP Volodymyr Viatrovych.

Students and teachers of vocational schools will not be called up to the army, the law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada states.

The names of the Russian military who took part in the genocide in the Kyiv region were published by Ukrainian intelligence.

About 220,000 people in Ukraine are left homeless because of the Russian aggression, the Verkhovna Rada reported. The total area of damage is more than 5.3 million square meters.

Based on curier service data, Ukrainian IT army has designed a map which shows where Russians are sending their loot.

In the Donetsk region, not including Mariupol, 238 people have died since February 24, and 772 people have been wounded, wrote Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration.

On April 14, 2,557 people were taken to safety: from Mariupol, Berdyansk, Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kreminny, and Popasna.

An intercepted conversation from the SSU between Russians: a Russian military man tells his wife that he decided to give away his loot stolen in Ukraine to his fellow soldiers because he wants to survive.

Ukrainian defenders were awarded in the Luhansk region Serhiy Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, and Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. "It was done in a restrained manner. Quietly, stripped of any solemnity. We do not reveal their names. We do not show their faces," Haidai wrote.

Karim Khan, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, has already appealed to Russia three times regarding the war against Ukraine, but has not yet received a response, he said at a briefing at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.

"We have every reason to believe that the crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine are subject to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court," ICC prosecutor Karim Khan.

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan during a briefing on the crimes in the Kiev region said, "As followers of the law, we must examine and accept the evidence and, based on it, draw conclusions."

According to Forbes, the cost of Russia’s missile cruiser Moskva, which was struck by the Ukrainian Neptune missile, amounts to $750 million. Ukraine bought "Neptune" in 2021 for $26 million.

Ukrainians will take part in the Invictus Games. The select team is made up of current servicemen who are defending Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Neither Medvedchuk nor Yanukovych. The secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Danilov, says that Russia was preparing to make "people with big shoulder straps" in charge of Ukraine. Those were Ukrainians. But he doesn't give any names.

In the Slobozhansky direction, the occupiers are conducting reconnaissance for the offensive, strengthening the intelligence system and medical support. The replenishing of reserves is taking place - the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

The Russians are regrouping units in the Seversky direction: the displacement from the territories of the Bryansk and Kursk to the Belgorod and Voronezh regions of the Russian Federation is detected - the General Staff of the Armed Forces reports.

As a big part of the local population refuses to take part in the war in the North Caucasus region, the authority of the Russian Army is lagging behind in terms of mobilization plans there - the General Staff of the Armed Forces reports.

Oleksiy Miacheslavovych Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on returning to Kyiv: "People need to understand that they risk being shelled by Russian bombs, their missiles. As for the presence of a large number of Russian troops in the capital - today we do not see the chance of this taking place, not at all".

The full-scale invasion started as the first column of the Russian tanks entered the territory of the Luhansk region at 3.40 a.m., told Oleksiy Miacheslavovych Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine during his interview for BBC Ukraine.

As Oleksiy Miacheslavovych Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine stated in his interview for BBC Ukraine, the full-scale invasion was planned by Russia to take place not on the 24th, but on the 22nd of February.

Among other places, pyrotechnists report the caches of munitions being found even in the private yards of villagers in the Zhytomyr region.

People with foreign citizenship were allowed to join intelligence services in Ukraine. The decision was approved by 352 votes, as People's Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak informed.

According to People's Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak informs, the activity of The Opposition Platform – For Life, the pro-Russian and Eurosceptic political party has been suspended by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

The government of France will freeze 33 properties on the French Riviera, Paris and other regions owned by sanctioned Russian oligarchs. This was reported by Euronews. This property is valued at more than half a billion euros.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially recognized the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine as genocide and banned the symbols Z and V as symbols of aggression of the occupiers.

Moldova accuses the Russian army of trying to recruit its citizens in Transnistria for the war against Ukraine, writes Reuters.

The town of Fuentes de Andalusia, with a population of 7200 in the province of Seville, Spain, is named "Ukraine" this week, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, some of its streets are currently renamed in Kyiv street, Mariupol street, Kharkiv styreet, Kherson street and Odessa street. This action was initiated by the residents of the town, who thus decided to demonstrate their solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

The Dutch government has instructed energy companies to abandon the new terms of payment for gas in rubles imposed by Russia, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Economy, reports Bloomberg.

Video of the Ministry of Defense about the consequences of the Russian occupation, namely about looting.

The occupiers continue shelling the civilian population of Chernihiv region with weapons prohibited by international law, according to the Operational Command "North". Today the invaders aimed at one of the private houses near Hrodnya. Previously, the strike was made from the tactical missile system "Tochka-U".

The occupiers fired on Velyka Pisarivka in the Sumy region, according to the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi. "Russia's enemy has shelled our territories," he wrote. There are no details of the shelling yet.

Investigators of the Chernihiv Regional Police are documenting the consequences of enemy attacks on the territory of the liberated settlements of the region. Photos of the National Police depict what the shelled Chernihiv region looks like.

"Kharkiv News" media published a video of the shelling of Gorky Park by the occupiers:

The level of payment for utilities in the capital is over 55% today, writes Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko. He called on everyone who can, to pay for housing and communal services. These funds are used primarily for the purchase of necessary resources and materials, as well as for the salaries of employees.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ireland Simon Coveny has confirmed that his country supports the embargo on Russian oil. He stated this during a joint press conference with his Ukrainian colleague Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv.

Today, the Moldovian Parliament voted in the last reading to ban the "george's ribbon" in its country, as well as the Z and V signs as symbols of Russian aggression in Ukraine. This was reported by Newsmaker.md.

In various districts of Irpin, Kyiv region, you can see volunteers who came from Kyiv with their shovels, rakes and brooms to help clean up the city liberated from the occupiers. What prompted people to come to Irpin and what is their impression of what they saw - in the story of the local TV channel ITV.

Secretary of the NSDC Oleksiy Danilov thanked the designers of the Luch Design Bureau for high-quality weapons - they created Neptune.

A meeting between Putin and Zelensky could take place if a draft peace treaty is prepared, which the presidents will be able to sign. There is no such document yet, CNN reports, quoting Peskov.

The Russians continue to claim that Ukraine is shelling their territory. The governor of the Russian Belgorod region reports that Ukrainians fired on the village, and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation believes that Ukrainian helicopters fired on an unnamed settlement in the Bryansk region six times.

Mobilized Russians are provided with decommissioned bulletproof vests, Central Intelligence Agency writes. On March 12, Russian railways delivered a cargo of 5,006 bulletproof vests to the recruits. Upon arrival, the body of the body armor was found to be almost completely rotten and the metal body armor rusted. The bulletproof vests were removed from "long-term storage", where they lay for years in conditions of high humidity.

Yesterday's missile strike from the anti-ship complex "Neptune" on the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet cruiser "Moscow" is not the debut of this Ukrainian system in the defense war against Russia. The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council in 2014-2019 Oleksandr Turchynov, who was the curator of the development of the missile shield of Ukraine, wrote about this on Facebook. "This is not the first effective use of Neptune. Two weeks ago, our cruise missile struck another key ship, Admiral Essen," he noted.

More than 30 000 people have already left Luhansk region to escape the occupiers, head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, Serhiy Haidai writes . At least 30% of the region's residents have been unable to do so for various reasons, some of them actually living in bomb shelters. Hot food, medical services and psychological support are provided to them around the clock by volunteers of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society.

A 12-year-old boy and a woman with two children were killed by Russian shelling in the private sector near Lysa Hora in the Kharkiv region on April 11, "Suspilne" writes. Among the wounded were another woman and children playing in the yard.

Russia is destroying Ukraine's cultural heritage, according to Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova. 189 cases of destruction of such items have already been recorded.

Teachers of a school in the occupied settlement of Donetsk region rejected the demand of the occupation administration to work with the words: "We will not take part in this circus!", writes Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration. As Kyrylenko emphasizes, this is truly a heroic act.

104 000 IDPs have been registered in the Kyiv region due to Russian armed aggression, writes  Oleksiy Kuleba from the Kyiv Region Humanitarian Headquarters. About 10 000 IDPs were housed in 23 communal institutions in 13 communities in the region.