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

Last night during missiles strikes on Kryvyy Rih, russians used prohibited by Geneva Convention claster munitions and heavy multiple rocket launcher SMERCH. This was announced by the Head of Kryvyy Rih Military Administration Oleksandr Vilkul.

According to Vilkul, the occupiers shelled public infrastructure of Ingulets district of the city. Luckily, there are no victims - on the eve people were evacuated. The occupiers shell with large range weapon, as Armed Forces of Ukraine have pushed russian federation troops away dozens of kilometres from the city.

The Head of European Parliament Roberta Metsola declared Ukraine needed help. She wrote this in Twitter.

"We have provided already a lot of logistics, humanitarian, military, and financial support, but it is not enough. In Verhovna Rada and at the meeting with the President Zelenskyy I promised to deliver this call to European Parliament and to our colleagues in different countries and different institutions, " she cited.

Ukraine needs help. Urgently.#StandWithUkraine

The Ministry of Defense of Japan will create in April a position of a specialist on opposition to russian propaganda due to the information war started by russia in the full scale break in to Ukraine, Japan Today reports.

"Russia tries to confuse Ukraine inventing excuses to its military actions. Exact information becomes more and more important," they stressed in the Ministry. The new specialist on information will be called a senior coordinator of global strategical reconnaissance. They will track information influencing public opinion and will submit this to the Ministry of Defense.

The Prime minister of Finland Sanna Marin declared that the country should take a decision till the beginning of summer if to apply for NATO membership, Yle informs. As it is cited, April 2 Marin declated to the delegates of the Social Democrats Party gathered in Helsinki that it was time for Finland to reconsider seriously its position on military loyalty.

According to Marin, military aggression of russia in Ukraine made Finland reconsider its security policy.

Hundreds of Ukrainians have arrived to a near bordertown Tijuana in Mexico, to save themselves from the russian aggression, CNN writes.

As of April 3, there are 1500 Ukrainians in the town, but people have been arriving, and it is expected this number would be 2000. The number of Ukrainian refugees have been enreased four times for the last 3 days.

It is detailed that they worked in the town to organise a temporary shelter for Ukrainians in a sport object. They expect in Tijuana all the migrants will depart to USA, but for now American authority is not in a hurry to accept them.

Last 24 hours the occupiers have shelled Donetsk region for numerous times again, the head of Donetsk Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko informed.

"Today in the result of shelling in Bahkmut one person has died and 3 people have been injured. Also, there is one person injured in Vidradnyi and 1 person injured in Marjinka", Kyrylenko said. According to him, it is impossible to specify the exact number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha.

The President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke decisively against an initiative of Sluga Narodu MP's to change words of the national anthem of Ukraine. He mentioned this during his video address summing up April 2.

"I have a question to these people: what have you done so much important in your life to gain a moral right to change the words of the anthem? Are you famous poets? Maybe you have stood out in battles for Ukraine? Or now it is that time to change the anthem when you want it?", Zelenskyy said.

The President called out the initiatorss of the idea to calm down, and to go to fight if possible. The President stressed even if Verhovna Rada suddenly voted for something like this, he would not sign such a law project, and called out deputies not to waste time.

A lot of broken vehicle of russian occupiers have been redeslocated to Sumy region, they have sent it during their retreat from Chernihiv and Kyiv regions. The Head of Sumy Military Administration Dmitriy Zhyvytskiy declared in his video address.

According to Zhyvytskiy, the situation in the central and eastern part of the region remains tense. The occupiers defeat chaotically, frequently shoot peaceful citizens.

"Unfortunately, there are a lot of victims among civilians. The orcs shoot cars. Shoot pedestrians", he said.

A former member of parliament Serhii Leshchenko published a video from released by Ukrainian defenders Irpin, Kyiv region. According to Leshchenko, there are shooted from howitzers cars and broken armoured vehicle of the enemy at the town's streets.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to bring the case of the destruction of evil to an end, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyy said in telephone conversation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Millie.

Zaluzhnyy emphasized Ukrainian military have proved that they fought and will fight for freedom, democracy and the right to live in a civilized world that they defend today.

“With the support of the West we are ready to demolish evil, because we do not want scenarios present in Ukraine to repeat in Europe: killings of women and children, the destruction of infrastructure. Mankind has a chance to live peacefully. I hope the world understands that. We are ready to bring the case of the destruction of evil to an end”.

In Mariupol Lithuanian director and documentarist Mantas Kvedaravicius was killed in another Russian troops attack, his colleague Vitaliy Manskyy informed in Facebook.

“Our friend, a participant of Artdocfest, Lithuanian documentarist Mantas Kvedaravicius was killed today in Mariupol holding his camera in his hands”.

In 2016 Kvedaravicius made a film “Mariupolis” about Russian aggression in Donbas.

In Motyzhyn village, Kyiv region, bodies of the headwoman Olha Suchenko, her husband and her son were found in a mass grave and in sewerage. The family was considered missing from March 23. The photo was published by the Advisor of the Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All three were tortured and then executed by Russian sadistic occupants.

Russia appeared to be unable to destroy Ukrainian anti-aircraft warfare systems and this became a serious issue for Russian land troops ability to offense, British Intelligence informs in it's update of April 2.

As noted, despite Russia's ongoing efforts to weaken opportunities of the AAW of the AFU, Ukraine remains a serious problem for Russian air and missile operations. As a result Russian aircrafts are vulnerable to AAW systems of short and medium range.

The USA will facilitate the transfer of Soviet T-72 tanks to Ukraine, CNN informs.

According to the high-ranking American official Ukrainians have experience of operation of these tanks.

These tanks will be delivered “during several days, not weeks”, the official from NATO partner-states says.

Russia revives its war strategy in Ukraine and focuses on taking control over Donbas and other regions on the South of Ukraine with a target date in early May. Information provided by CNN referring several US officials familiar with the latest estimations of US intelligence.

It is stated that Russian land troops are not able to keep control over the regions where combats are held for more than a month.

As noted, Russian dictator Volodymyr Putin is under pressure: he has to prove that he “can demonstrate the victory” and Southern Ukraine is a place where he will concentrate his attention.

According to the interceptions of US intelligence Putin is put on May 9, Russian “Den' Pobedu” (Victory Day).

Putin is getting ready for “Chechnya-style long, drawn-out war, because he, to a certain extent, has nowhere else to go on this.”, the United States believe.

Pope Francis appeared veiledly condemned the actions of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, without naming him. He spoke about it during his speech in Malta, BBC informs.

Once again, some potentate, sadly caught up in anachronistic claims of nationalist interests, is provoking and fomenting conflicts, while ordinary people sense the need to build a future that will either be shared or not be at all.

Answering questions of the reporters, the Pope said that his possible visit to Ukraine is “on the table”.

In liberated Bucha „280 people were buried in mass graves”, the mayor of Bucha Anatoliy Fedoruk informs according to AFP.

Commenting to foreign journalists, the mayor stressed that the city's streets were badly damaged by Russian occupation forces and are "littered with corpses."

#UPDATE Bucha's mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, told @AFP by phone that they "have already buried 280 people in mass graves," since the Ukrainian army retook control of the key town outside Kyiv

As witnessed by @AFP, he said the heavily destroyed town's streets are littered with corpses pic.twitter.com/XMxRTuCU5F

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 2, 2022

Russian occupants shell Kharkiv with artillery of different types but the intensity of fire has gone down, the General Staff of the AFU informs in their operational information as to 24:00 of April 2.

Main efforts of the occupants are still concentrated on the capture of Rubizhne and Popasna, preparation to offense the Severodonetsk, getting full control of Mariupol, and also going to Vuhledar and Mariinka. They had no success.

The enemy continues to systematically shell with artillery and missiles military and residential objects, but the intensity of missile hits and strikes using high-precision weapons has decreased.

On April 2 the occupants committed a massive shelling of Kremenchuk Oil Refinery and surrounding warehouses with fuel materials. Enterprise infrastructure is destroyed, the refinery is not working.

Information provided by the head of Poltava Military Administration Dmytro Lunin.
According to the RMA head the firefighters continue to extinguish the dire. Environmental catastrophe is avoided. Some people were injured – they have body burns.

Lunin urged residents of the region not to create queues at gas stations, the situation with fuel supply is under control.

In Russia, the families of the occupiers are beginning to receive a funeral notes - "military training" for them has been completed ahead of schedule. This was reported by the Strategic Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook.

"The Russian Ministry of Defense has started procedures to award those involved in the Russian-Ukrainian war with "state-standard "certificates," the statement said.

Every settlement liberated from Russian occupants is now under curfew for territory demining up till April 5, – the head of Kyib region humanitarian staff Oleksiy Kuleba in Telegram.

“It is done so the specialists have an ability to estimate the scale of work and put everything into order. After this the process of demining and restoration of infrastructure will acquire its planned nature”.

According to Kuleba many people want to return to their homes but liberated territories are still dangerous. In total, demining will take at least ten days.

Abstracts from Zelenskyy's speech on April 2:

“When people defend themselves in a war of annihilation, when the question is of life or death of millions there is no unimportant thing. No unimportant moments. Everything matters. And everyone can contribute to the victory of all. Somebody by holding weapons. Somebody by doing their work. Somebody by a good word and help when needed. Do everything you can for us to stand through this war for our freedom, for our independence. For Ukraine to live”.

“Our heroic Mariupol continues to hold a significant part of enemy's forces. It is this resistance, this bravery and fortitude of other cities that give Ukraine priceless time”.

“I would like to thank the residents of our Energodar. Those brave Ukrainian men and women who went to the rally to protect their city. To protect our country. In response, the occupants opened fire and used grenades against completely peaceful people. People who stand on their land, in their right. They will hold responsibility for every wounded. And still Ukrainian nature will never be conquered. No matter how violent and intimidating the tries are”.

“I want to address one more person who seems to not fully understand what is happening and what people are living through. Not just in Ukraine, but across Europe. I want to address the Prime Minister of Hungary. We did not ask anything special from the official Budapest. We didn't even get what everyone else is doing! Doing for the peace. We did not receive the vital transit of defense aid, we did not see moral leadership to stop the war! Why so?”

“I signed a decree on awarding state awards to our heroes - the heroes of our state. 131 military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, nine of them posthumously. Eternal glory to all of them! Eternal glory to everyone who gave their lives for Ukraine!”

Video took after the fighting of Russian tankers and Ukrainian artillerymen in Dmytrivka.

On April 2, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit eight air targets:

2 aircraft (preliminary, Su-34 fighter-bomber);
1 helicopter;
1 drone;
4 cruise missiles.

If Verkhovna Rada votes to change the anthem of Ukraine, I will not sign this bill, Zelensky says.

The head of Motyzhyn village Olha Sukhenko and her husband Ihor Sukhenko were found dead, the mayor of Makariv Vadym Tokar informed. The Russians took them hostage 10 days ago.

We should not have false hopes that they will just leave our land. We can only get peace through hard fightings, negotiations and daily vigorous work, Zelensky says.

"I am grateful to everyone who go out to the streets in the temporarily occupied cities. To all who are not afraid and go out. To all who are afraid and go out. To all those who feel that without this decision to defend Ukraine and their freedom, the occupiers can gain a foothold.

And when people protest - and the more people protest, the harder it is for the occupiers to destroy us. Destroy our freedom. This is our common fight! And there will be our common victory".

The most dangerous locations in Kyiv region today are the north of Vyshhorod and Bucha districts, the head of Kyiv region Oleksandr Pavliuk informs.

Donetsk region. In Bakhmut, a man was killed and three people were injured as a result of the shelling. Another wounded man is in Odradny and one in Maryinka, Pavlo Kyrylenko informed.

The number of large-scale shelling is increasing in Luhansk region, Serhii Haidai informed.

"Ukrposhta" delivered pensions to 495 people in the area of ​​active fighting, Serhiy Gaidai informed. Almost 3 million hryvnias have been paid for March and April in Lysychansk and Sevrodonetsk.

Mykhaylo Podoliak published a photo of Russian civilians killed by Russians:

"We do not ask for sympathy. We do not ask for likes on social networks. And we certainly do not ask to fight with Russia for us. We ask only one thing: provide us with weapons so that we can protect our people. We will do everything else by ourselves".

The meeting of Zelensky and Putin could be held in Turkey. Russia agreed that the draft documents were sufficient enough to prepare for the meeting, Arahamiya says.

Ukraine holds diplomatic negotiations with China, but they are not that effective as negotiations with other countries that help us, Arahamiya says.

Ukraine insists that Russia should not be allowed to veto any new security system, Arahamiya says.

If Ukrainians support the course to NATO in a referendum, we will hold new negotiations with Russia, Arahamiya says.

Photo of a hospital in Balakliia shelled by Russians. Photo by Suspilne Kharkiv.

Failed to deliver: the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine showed the burnt case of the stolen washing machines in the burnt truck of the occupants.

Border guards show photo of Russian helicopter shot down by Ukrainian Defence Forces.

Situation in Donetsk and Luhansk directions on 2 April:

• The Ukrainian military successfully repelled six enemy attacks;
• They destroyed four Russian tanks, six armoured vehicles and seven enemy vehicles.

Sviatoslav Vakarchuk recorded a video standing in a hole from the Russian air bomb in Bashtanka (Mykolaiv region).

Achievements of the Azov Regiment on April 2 are as follows:

• They destroyed two enemy tanks, 2 airborne fighting vehicles, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, many enemy infantry.
• There are also captured occupants.

Russia orally accepted all proposals of Ukraine, except for Crimea as Davyd Arahamiya says regarding negotiations.

Both the media and cyber security experts should prepare for possible Russian attacks and be ready to repel them, the head of the State Service of Special Communication Yurii Shchihol informed.

Journalist Dmytro Komarov showed a video of a column of Ukrainian vehicles in Hostomel.

The occupants shelled Kremenchuh oil refinery and the fuel and lubricants depots nearby. The infrastructure of the enterprise has been completely destroyed, the head of Poltava Regional State Administration Dmytro Lunin informed.

An updated map of Kyiv region after Russians were repulsed.

On 2 April, 643 explosive devices were seized in Irpin, the State Emergency Service said. The area continues to be cleared.

This is what Russians left - stolen alcohol, abandoned weapons, clothes, because they probably dressed in civilian clothes.