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

“This morning I sent photos and videos from Irpin and Bucha to all my foreign acquaintances of diplomats, ministers and managers – outside of ethics and equivocations. Those ones that are not accepted for publications. Those ones you cannot look at even once. Those ones I will not publish in any group. Photos of civilians brutally tortured and killed, naked girls which they [Russians] tried to burn, murdered elderly and executed civilians with tied hands. Photos of mass graves... They, Russian soldiers, behaved like non-humans. THEY WERE ALLOWED TO. And those motherf*ckers were glad to. <...> They, my former colleagues, are all kind people... Sometimes it is not enough to be kind“, – the former Minister of MIA Arsen Avakov in his Fecebook account.

On April 3, 2022, anti-aircraft missile forces of the Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down another Su-34 fighter-bomber in the Kharkiv region.
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"BURNING, BURNING, completely burning, f*ck" - radio interception of enemy's talks.
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An offer to register license plates “ПТН ЗДХ" was released in Ukraine. This offer was made by the former head of the MIA Arsen Avakov. The head of the Patrol Police Evhen Zhukov promises to discuss this matter with Stepan Andriyovych (ed.: Bandera).
(note: “ПТН ЗДХ" is an abbreviation in Cyrillic for „Putin died”).

Statements of attacks on civilians during Russia's invasion of Ukraine should be investigated as war crimes, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain Liz Truss states. She also adds that Great Britain will fully support step by the International Criminal Court.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine, other defense forces and special services „will do everything to find and punish” war criminals who arrange massacres in the suburbs of Kiev and elsewhere in Ukraine, the Advisor of the Head of the Office of the President Oleksiy Arestovych.

Russian looters are mass-mailing items stolen from Ukrainians in Mozyr, Belarus.


The recording from the surveillance camera in the branch of the express delivery service was published on YouTube by Anton Motolko.

The mayors of four settlements in the Luhansk region, which are under temporary Russian occupation, became collaborators and betrayed Ukraine.  This was stated by the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Haidai on ICTV.

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine published data of Russian war criminals of 56th assault brigade who commit war crimes against peaceful Ukrainians. The list contains close to 50 people. Information is provided by the press service of HUR MO (MDI of MDU).

Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vadym Denysenko on Channel 24 called on Ukrainians to understand why it is not yet possible to return to the liberated settlements of Kyiv region.  In some places, the occupiers installed mine stretchers quite professionally.

The head of the Donetsk military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko told in an interview to LIGA.net what the region is preparing for and how many forces are left in Mariupol.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree posthumously awarding photojournalist Maksym Levin killed by the occupants in Kyiv region with the Order for Courage (posthumously). The document is published on the website of the head of state.

150 tons of medicines and consumables were sent to Ukraine by philanthropists from the United States.  The day before, the humanitarian cargo landed in Poland, from where it is already heading to Ukraine, the Ministry of Health said.

Occupiers shell Kryvyy Rih from Kherson Region. The head of the Kryvyy Rih regional military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, made this statement during a TV marathon. He noted that the Russians had shelled the Inhuletskyy district using Smerch.

Kakhovka again calls on the Russian occupiers to get out.

On 3 April, our defenders took control of the Pripyat town area and reached the border with Belarus. The command of the Airborne Assault Troops of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has reported.

On the morning of 3 April, two Russian sea-launched cruise missiles were shot down in the south of the country by a unit of the Air Force's anti-aircraft missile forces.

Another "landings" of enemy missiles were carried out in the Odesa and Mykolayiv regions, the Public Relations Service of the South Air Command has reported.

In Kakhovka, Kherson region, occupiers disperse peaceful rally with machine gun fire - NEXTA Live. 

Israeli ambassador to Ukraine Mykhaylo Brodsky admitted that the Russians had committed war crimes in the temporarily occupied territories: "I am deeply shocked by the photos from Bucha. The killing of civilians is a war crime and cannot be justified".

The head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, and the head of humanitarian affairs, Oleksiy Kuleba, held a field meeting in the city of Bucha, which has been liberated from the occupying forces. During the meeting, they worked out a roadmap of priority steps to be taken by regional and city services to help quickly restore full life in the community.

This is what the bridge across the Seim, which the occupiers blew up as they were leaving Sumshchyna, looks like:

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has received a list of military personnel of the 56th Airborne Assault Brigade of military unit 74507 of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region (Feodosia, Crimea), who commit war crimes against the people of Ukraine.

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 03.04 were approximately:

• personnel - about 18000,
• tanks ‒ 644,
• APV ‒ 1830,
• artillery systems – 325,
• MLRS - 105,
• Anti-aircraft warfare systems - 54,
  aircraft – 143,
• helicopters – 134,
• vehicles - 1249,
  boats / cutters - 7,
  fuel tanks - 76,
• UAV operational-tactical level - 89,
  special equipment - 24,
  mobile SRBM system - 4,

Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

The current situation in the Kyiv region, according to Regional Administration:

• In the north, the enemy has completed the withdrawal of units from the territories of Ukraine to Russia and Belarus.
• The withdrawal of units from the 2nd combined army of the Central Military District, operating in the direction of the city of Brovary, to the Russian Federation through the Sumy region.
• In the settlements of Bucha, Vyshgorod, Brovary districts liberated from the invader, the defense forces conduct clearing operation and demining. Humanitarian aid is also being delivered.
• Obukhiv, Borispil, Bila Tserkva, Fastiv districts: the situation is under control.
• Demining, restoring gas supply, electricity, communications is underway in Bucha district. Humanitarian aid is delivered.
• Brovary district is completely controlled.
• The situation in Vyshgorod district is tense, but under control.

On April 3, the occupiers are holding 11 heads of local communities from Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv and Donetsk regions, according to Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk believes that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier takes lightly the need of changing his policy towards Russia after it attacked Ukraine.

Another intercepted telephone conversation of the occupiers by the Security Service of Ukraine: One of the invaders tells his sister about the commander of his brigade. He says that the official wanted to get a medal, but due to insane losses, he was dismissed.

Advisor to the chief of the president’s office Mykhailo Podoliak commented the tragedy in Bucha, caused by the Russian invaders: "The world has received a total indescribable horror of anti-humanity in Bucha, Irpin, Gostomel. Hundreds, thousands of killed, ripped, raped, tied, again raped and murdered. Hundreds, thousands of peaceful citizens of Ukraine. Killed with special atrocities".

The most influential Polish politician, the leader of the Law and Justice Party, Jaroslav Kaczynski, harshly criticized Germany for its unwillingness to cut out oil from Russia and accused it of attraction to Moscow.

Iryna Vereshchuk announced the work of humanitarian corridors on April 3.

The 78-year-old resident of the town of Bashtanka, the Mykolaiv region, set on fire the MLRS “Grad” of the invaders, Territorial Defence Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informed.

Zhytomyr road after the liberation of Kyiv oblast:

This is how Hostomel, Kyiv Region, looks like after the liberation from the Russian invaders:

The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports: "Kharkiv oblast. In some cases, during the retreat, the invaders fled even barefoot and without ushanka-hats. We assume that it got "hot", our soldiers know how to do that."

Izyum city, Kharkiv region, has been converted into ruins during one month of intensive bombing, the Deputy Head of the Mayor Volodymyr Matsokin reports.

Oleksandr Kamyshyn, chairman of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, said that the large-scale evacuation from large cities had already ended and people were returning.

The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed the vehicles abandoned by the Russian invaders near the Irpin River:

Reportage by British journalists Jeremy Bowen and Orla Guerin from the liberated suburbs of Kyiv:

In the Kyiv region, explosive technicians detected and destroyed 197 explosive devices.

As of the morning of April 3, 2022, more than 258 children were wounded due to war, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The official number of child victims has not changed - it is 158 deaths. 

British Intelligence reports:

• Russian Naval Forces continue blocking Ukrainian seaside of the Black Sea and the Azov Sea and prevent from supplies to Ukraine by sea.
• Russia can still land a naval landing, but the operation will be at great risk due to the preparedness of the Ukrainian military.
• Mines in the Black Sea are serious danger in maritime activity. And though their nature has not been investigated, they are there because of russian naval and invasion in Ukraine almost for sure.

The Ministry of Defense showed combat work of anti tankers from the 25th separate Airborne Sicheslavsjka brigade. Paratroopers continue to destroy the enemy at Ukrainian land, officials said.

In the Moscow district of Kharkiv, 14 apartments of a nine-story building were on fire, and a large-scale fire broke out at night in the Kharkiv district of the Kharkiv oblast - warehouses were on fire, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

In the town of Lozova, several private houses, an electrical substation, and a warehouse building caught fire after the enemy shelling. At least 5 people received shrapnel wounds

In State Borders Service informed about queues at the border. The longest queues are at "Rava Ruska" and "Shehyni" to Poland, and at "Uzhhorod" point to Slovakia.

Odesa came under Russian shelling on the morning of April 3. Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, confirmed it. "The enemy gets nothing, not Odessa! Be kind, residents of Odesa, stay in the shelter. We will stand it," he wrote on Facebook.

The Odesa newspaper Dumska reported that Russia carried out a missile strike, some of the missiles were shot down by Ukrainian Air Defence forces. Black smoke rose over the city.

In Severodonetsk, the Russians hit one of the houses in the city center for the third time in a week. Over the past 24 hours, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, and Lysychansk have suffered the most damage due to the Russian invasion. Fighting continues in some quarters of Rubizhne and Popasna, Luhansk Regional Administration informed.

Summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 6:00 on April 3:

• The moral and psychological state of the enemy's personnel and the level of motivation remains extremely low. Commanders of various levels of the 3rd Motor Rifle Division of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District refuse to take part in combat. In addition, the military is writing resignation letters.
• Personnel of two battalion-tactical groups of the 4th military base from the 58th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District refused to take part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. It is planned to return them to the points of permanent deployment.
• To make up for the loss of personnel, the Russian authorities are campaigning for civilians to join the armed forces. Such events are held both in the territory of the Russian Federation and in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk oblasts, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
• Systematic cases of violations of the requirements of International Humanitarian Law on the conduct of war continue. The Russian occupiers continue to deploy weapons and military equipment in the immediate vicinity of the housing infrastructure of settlements, carry out filtration measures in temporarily occupied territories, commit violence against local residents, engage in looting.
• On the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the defenders of Ukraine repulsed six enemy attacks, destroyed four tanks, six units of armored vehicles, and seven units of enemy vehicles. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has hit 8 air targets the previous day: two aircraft, one helicopter, one UAV, and four cruise missiles. Air Force aircraft continued to strike the places of concentration of the enemy, military equipment columns, and logistics centers.

On April 3, three evacuation trains will depart from Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts:

• From Novozolotarivka (Luhansk oblast) at 14:00 train 5501 to Lozova;

• From Kramatorsk (Donetsk oblast) at 13:00 train 274/273 to Lviv, at 16:00 - train 276/275 to Lviv.

Serhiy Haidai, the head of the Luhansk regional administration, called on the region's residents to evacuate, not to try to wait out the shelling. He expressed hope that the evacuation would be temporary and people would be able to return to their homes by the end of spring.

Britain overwhelmed by atrocity of russian occupiers troops in Bucha and other towns in Ukraine, and the UK gather testimonials to punish the guilty ones, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss wrote on Twitter.

"Information on russian soldiers' attacks to peaceful citizens is horrible", she stressed. According to Truss, Great Britain cooperares with other countries to gather testimonials of military crimes of russian occupiers to punish the guilty ones.

Appalled by atrocities in Bucha and other towns in Ukraine. Reports of Russian forces targeting innocent civilians are abhorrent.

The UK is working with others to collect evidence and support @IntlCrimCourt war crimes investigation. Those responsible will be held to account.

— Liz Truss (@trussliz) April 2, 2022

European Union prepare the fifth package of sanctions against russia that will close detected during last month gaps for limitations. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba informed on Ukrainian TV.

"In European Union four packages of sanctions have been implemented. And in parallel, their efficiency implemented is estimated daily, the gaps have been found. And now in the fifth package of sanctions to be implemented in the nearest future (I know when, but not to overlook, still it will be implemented very soon), there will be a huge block closing detected last month gaps to avoid sanctions by russian federation", Kuleba said.