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

The total combat losses of the enemy reached about 18,500 people.

Pyrotechnic divisions of SESU neutralised 15 ammunition and explosive objects in Kharkiv region. Blockage disassembling is in the process in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region. SESU got one injured woman and bodies of three killed people from blockages.

On April 5 a transferring node of Kyiv subway "Ploscha Lva Tolstogo" - "Palats Sportu" resume its work. On April 6, subway starts working one hour earlier - from 7:30.

79% of refugees plan to come back to Ukraine after the war finishes - the survey of the Centre of Razumkov.

At night air defense forces over Dnipropetrovsjk hit 2 enemy's missiles. Leftovers caused small ignition in one of the villages. Nobody suffered - the Head of Dnipropetrovsjk RSA Valentyn Reznichenko.

From Zovozolotarivka (Luhansk region) at 14:00 an evacuation train leaves to Lozova, from Kramatorsjk (Donetsk region) to Lviv an evacuation train leaves at 13:00, 16:00,and 18:00.

In Kyiv, from 8:00 till 19:00 about 150 buses go by their routes with 30 minutes intervals, and more than 30 trams with 15-25 minutes intervals - KCSA.

Neither rescuers, nor emergency doctors can reach some of the districts in Popasna and Rubizhne. There are heavy shelling, and street fights - RSA.

In Luhansk and Donetsk regions there have been repulsed seven attacks of the enemy. Seven russian tanks, eight pcs of armoured vehicle, and three artillery systems of the enemy have been destroyed. One of the buildings in Severodonetsk got into fire for the fourth and fifth time. In Rubizhne, killed ones are buried in yards - RSA.

Times of cooperation already gone. "Times of the period after the Cold War finished... Russia did invasion to a neighbouring country. There appears again almost totalitarian repression inside the country. They even threaten to use nuclear weapon",
US secretary of state Antony Blinken.

Russian troops are being concentrated to attack in the east of Ukraine to reach administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the enemy tries to restore assaulting actions in the direction of Sloviansk - Summary of the General Staff as of 6:00 a.m. on April 5.

More than 30 USA congressmen from both parties insist on the decision to broaden weapon for Ukraine. These are air to surface missiles, aircrafts and anti ship missiles -  CNN.

USA tested a hyper sonic rocket successfully in the middle of March, but two weeks have been silent to avoid escalation of tension with russia on the background of the President 's Biden visit to Europe - CNN.

The General Staff showed a video from released Gostomelj.

Azov regiment showed a new video from Mariupol

"Last weekend the world saw ugly and crazy attacks of civilians in Bucha. Those terrorist acts will not pass without punishment. Those are military crimes", the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Mélanie Joly.

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Australia took a decision to prohibit exporting luxuries, including wine, expensive cosmetics, and parts for elite cars to russia. This was announced by the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Australia Marise Payne.

Ukrainian militants released Viktorivka Village of Chernigiv region, that was temporary occupied for 25 days, from the occupiers. Photos published at Facebook of the Operational command Pivnich. People of different ages - from old people to newborns - were living in basements in non human conditions for weeks.

Japanese government will provide 100 mln usd of financial help to solve humanitarian issues of Ukrainian refugees. It was announced by the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Yoshimasa Hayashi during his visit to Poland.

The genocide arranged by russian occupiers in Ukraine can be the largest one in Europe since World War II. This is informed at Facebook by the Centre of strategic communication and information security. It is noted that the number of civilians in Irpinj and Bucha is already higher than the number of killed people in Croatia towns Gospich and Vucovar - internationally recognised cases of military crimes.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba declared that the political management of russia knew about atrocities towards peaceful Ukrainians in temporary occupied towns in Ukraine. He said this in the interview to ВВС.

The Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba answered a ВВС journalist's question if weapon distribution to Ukrainians could cause mass killings of peaceful citizens of Bucha and other Ukrainian towns by russian occupiers militants.

Russian occupiers expelled from Sumy region leave not only corps of their militants, but also alive soldiers. It is the same dangerous for peaceful citizens to cross borders of villages or go to the forest. This was informed by the Head of Sumy RMA Dmytro Zhyvytskyy.

One more cargo of military help from USA will be delivered to Ukraine in the nearest 24 hours. CNN informs.

The President Volodymyr Zelenskyy assigned awards to 152 militants of AFU for valorous service in opposition to russian occupation troops. It is said in the decree of the Head of the county.

Azov regiment soldiers have been repulsing attacks of russian occupiers to blocked Mariupol for 40 days.

AFU are ready to defend Kharkiv, russian occupation troops cannot approach the city, and in some directions they intend to retreat. This was declared by the Head of Kharkiv MA Oleg Synegubov. According to him, Izyum remains the hottest spot of the region. The occupiers try to concentrate large number of vehicle to forward in Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

Journalists have identified some of the occupiers from the 155th marine brigade of Pacific Fleet of russia. According to Ukrainian militants, this brigade committed military crimes and genocide in Bucha, Irpinj, and Gostomelj districts. This was informed in the materials of Slidstvo.Info.

Photos of mass graves of the killed Ukrainians in Bucha by russian occupiers are terrible, this "can be recreated in larger scale". This was declared by the Head of International non governmental organisation of human rights Human Rights Watch Kennet Roth, CNN writes. According to Roth, International criminal court has already started the investigation of military crimes in Ukraine. He added "it was necessary to act asap" to minimise the number of lost evidences.

In Donbas at the result of russian occupiers shelling, a chemical factory has been damaged - 7 hits on the phenolic factory have been documented. This is informed by the press service of the Operations of Joint Forces.

In Great Britain, they recon it is necessary to simply visas issue to Ukrainian refugees on the background of the full scale break in of russia to Ukraine. This was announced by the shadow minister of the Labour Party Bridget Phillipson in SSky News air.

Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba discussed with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres the horrific massacres of Ukrainians in Bucha, as well as the security situation in other regions of Ukraine. This was reported on Twitter.

Kuleba emphasized to the secretary general that "Ukraine will use all available UN mechanisms to gather evidence and bring Russian war criminals to justice."

"There is no place for Russia in the UN Human Rights Council," the Ukrainian minister reminded Gutterish.

The Belarusian channel Belarus Gaiun published data from the Russian military, who sent belongings stolen in Ukraine from Belarus.

According to the publication, the majority of marauders were from Rubtsovsk (Altai Territory), as well as from the Miner (Altai Territory), Chita (Transbaikal Territory), Zaliznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory), Omsk, Ulyanovsk, Novosibirsk, Moscow, Angarsk (Irkutsk region), Ussur (Primorsky Krai) and Birobidzhan (Jewish Autonomous Region).

In just one day, April 2, they handed over more than two tons of stuff to be sent.

Russia plans to intensify its military operations in Ukraine, in particular, the ground offensive in Donbass. This was stated by National Security Adviser at the White House Jake Sullivan, CNBC reports.

According to Sullivan, US officials believe that Russia is reconsidering its goal in the war.

He added that the resumption of Russia's ground offensive in eastern Ukraine is likely to be accompanied by air and missile strikes on the rest of the country to inflict military and economic damage and "commit terror."

The connection between Chernihiv and the center of the country has been restored after Russian occupation forces left the territory, but it is necessary to follow a safe route, the head of the North Operational Command Victor Nikolyuk stated.

We have restored the route connecting Chernihiv with the center of the country. Thanks to this, locals can leave the city for a while, and volunteers, medical staff, small trucks with humanitarian aid can get to the regional center on the contrary, he said.

Nikolyuk stressed that the safe route is the one through Honcharivske village.

The United States will supply Ukraine with a new large consignment of weapons worth about $ 300 million to strengthen Ukraine's defense capabilities, which resists Russia's full-scale invasion. This was stated by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III during a conversation with Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, the press service of the US Department of Defense reported.

According to Austin, since Russia's first attack on Ukraine on February 24, the United States has provided $ 1.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine.

The US Defense Secretary expressed outrage at the obvious atrocities committed by Russian troops in Bucha and throughout Ukraine. He confirmed that the United States will use all available methods to document and gather evidence of war crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili believes that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has changed his strategy - he wants to seize Donbas and Kherson, as well as South Ossetia by the summer.

"By May-June, it intends to seize Luhansk and Donetsk regions within their administrative borders, strengthen the corridor to Crimea and control Kherson region, hold a referendum and announce Russia's accession of four new lands: Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson regions and South Ossetia. Accept them to the Russian Federation and to declare that the issue is closed in the same way as in the Crimea ", - he emphasized.

According to Saakashvili, Putin will not declare annexation until he has seized all the planned territories, so the Ukrainian military should fight for every settlement in the south and east of the country.

There are currently 600 prisoners of war of Russian occupation army in Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk informed during a telethon.

Talking aboutthe total number, there are about 600 of them now. You know, we have to build a special camp in accordance with international law, she said.

According to Vereshchuk, Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held in Russia under unknown conditions, some of them have been there since 2014 and have been denied the Red Cross to visit them. There are women among the prisoners of war in Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

The head of Mykolaiv military administration Vitaliy Kim showed a video with victims of attacks of Mykolaiv by the Russian occupants on April 4.

"Every day, these lying and cynical creatures kill the residents of my Mykolayiv, and then report on the alleged liquidation of military facilities. We will find each of you. We won't forgive you for the lives you have taken", Kim wrote in the video.

The main ideas of President Volodymyr Zelensky's address are as follows:

"We have just begun an investigation into crimes the occupants committed. Today, more than 300 people have been killed and tortured in Bucha alone. This number is likely to be much higher when the entire city is inspected. And this is just one city."

"It is already known that the number of victims of the occupants may be even higher in Borodyanka and some other liberated cities. In many villages of the liberated districts of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the occupants did things that people did not see even during the Nazi occupation 80 years ago."

"We are trying our best to identify Russian soldiers involved in these crimes as soon as possible. We will do everything to punish them. This will be a joint work of our state with the European Union and international institutions, including the International Criminal Court."

"Once every Russian will know those fellow citizens who killed, who ordered to kill and who pretended not to see murders. We will find out all the details and make them viral in the world. It's 2022 and we have much more tools than those who were prosecuted by the Nazis after World War II."

"I state once again: Ukraine must get all the necessary weapons to repulse the occupants from our land as soon as possible, to liberate our cities. And if we already got what we need - all these planes, tanks, artillery, anti-missile and anti-ship weapons, we could save thousands of people. I'm not blaming you - I'm only blaming the Russian military. But you could help. "

"We continue to prepare for even more brutalities of the occupants in the eastern and southern directions. We know what they are going to do in Donbass. We know what they are going to do in Kharkiv, in some other parts of the country. Russia concentrates a huge number of troops and equipment."

"If Russian authorities do not really seek and negotiate peace, they will put their country in much worse state for the last 50 years. The so-called 90's will seem nice and calm time."

In the basement of one of the children's sanatoriums in Bucha, Kyiv region, law enforcement officers found the bodies of five people with their hands tied. The Russian occupiers tortured unarmed civilians and then killed them. This was reported in the Telegram Office of the General Procecutor of Ukraine.

Prosecutors and police officers are working at the crime scene of Russian barbarians. It is intended to establish the circumstances of each war crime in torture chamber and those who mocked the civilian population in order to bring them to justice.

Lithuanian Ambassador is going to resume work in Kyiv, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis informed on Twitter.

The Russian ambassador was asked to leave Lithuania. The Lithuanian ambassador to Ukraine is returning to Kyiv. Lithuania made such decisions today, Landsbergis wrote.

President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the nation on the 40th day of the war:

"Every adequate person in the world understands who brought war and mass deaths to Ukraine. There is a lot of evidence that it is Russian troops who are destroying peaceful cities. They are abducting, torturing and killing civilians", Zelensky said.

CNN journalists got under artillery shelling near Mykolaiv. The shell fell approximately 150 meters from them. The journalists said that they "experienced what ordinary Ukrainians experience every day during this war."

The Ukrainian army repulsed seven enemy attacks in the Joint Forces Operation zone, destroyed 7 tanks, 8 armored vehicles and 3 artillery systems.

The United Kingdom has announced a £10m fund for Ukrainian organizations, in particular, those helping victims of war-related sexual violence, according to British Foreign Secretary Liz Trass.

"Using rape as a weapon in war is a war crime," Trass mentioned.

Arestovych: Thanks to the courage and professionalism of our defenders, a frigate of the Russian fleet Admiral Essen has been damaged.

Airbnb has prohibited Russian and Belarusian citizens to book accommodations around the world, NEXTA Live reports.

Newspaper Belarus Haiun published data of the Russian military, who sent items stolen in Ukraine from Belarus. Journalists say that the personal data of the occupants were obtained "thanks to concerned people."

After footage from Bucha, the owner of the Czech IT company Lista.cz, Ivo Lukacovic, transferred 100 million Czech crowns to the Ukrainian army. That is equal to about 4 million euros. This was written by journalist of Current Time Iryna Romaliyska.

There are many dead and wounded in Mykolayiv. Nine people died, one of them was the child, 61 are wounded, the chairman of the Mykolaiv regional state administration Vitaliy Kim reported.

The New York Times has published satellite images that refute Russia's statements that civilians were killed in Bucha after its soldiers left the city.

Journalist Christopher Miller found an emblem similar to the Nazi paraphernalia on the uniform of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic awarded soldier, for which administrative penalties were imposed in Russia. In the 35th second of the video, Pushylin rewards a soldier with a skull sewn on his sleeve with crossed bones, reminiscent of the symbol of the SS troops "Dead Head".

During a briefing in Warsaw, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba thanked the European community for providing humanitarian aid, but stressed that the key issue now is providing Ukraine with weapons, as this is related to peace and security in the whole Europe.

Video of the President Zelensky's visit to the liberated cities of Kyiv region.

Volunteers created a list of items needed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The detailed list of can be found here.

President Volodymyr Zelensky approved the members of Ukrainian delegation to participate in negotiations with Russia on the preparation and approval of a draft agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine. The relevant decree was published on the President’s Office website, David Arahamia is the head of the delegation.

Video from the village of Motyzhyn with footage of the tortured family of the village elder. "Ties on the hands, beatings, gunshot wounds and blindfolded ... Horror froze on the faces of the victims," Kyiv Region police signed the video.

"Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine because he is confident that Europe will not respond," Volodymyr Zelensky stated while addressing the Romanian parliament through video. The President of Ukraine showed Romanian parliamentarians a video of the atrocities of the Russian occupiers in Bucha, saying before that: "I apologize - the video is cruel, but it is a reality ..."

Chernihiv is coming back to life after the shelling.

Voice of America journalist Jeff Seldin said, citing the Pentagon, that about two-thirds of Russian forces had left the territories near Kyiv, and a lot of them arrived in Belarus. After resupply, these units will return to their tasks, possibly in eastern Ukraine.

Terrible footage of a burned family in Bucha. Denis Kazansky showed a video with a group of five people, two of whom are children, as the journalist considers.

"These photos should be shown in Russia. If it weren't for Putin, not the" liberation operation", not you - these people would have been alive!"

In Bucha, patrol officers rescued a dog that was sleeping right in the glass. They took the dog to recover, then he will be adopted by Kyiv Police Patrol to work.

In Mariupol, Russian occupants distributed stolen Ukrainian humanitarian aid to residents, Mariupol mayor Vadym Boychenko informed. He also said he had seen that a so-called DNR military stopped a humanitarian convoy and partially robbed buses with Ukrainian products.