War

Today, April 10, Russian forces launched another airstrike on the city of Avdiivka, Donetsk region, destroying another apartment block. About 1,800 people are remaining in the city. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, wrote this on Telegram and published relevant photos. "The Russians turned Avdiivka into solid ruins. Today, the city came under another airstrike - another multi-story building was destroyed. Fortunately, there were no victims, as all residents of the building had evacuated," the regional governor wrote. He noted that only about 1,800 people are remaining in Avdiivka, risking their lives every day. Read also:…

Servicemen with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, under the guidance of British instructors, practiced methods of personnel movement within a unit and actions in offensive and defensive operations as part of basic joint military training on British soil. That’s according to the First Deputy Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, who posted the relevant pictures on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "Instructors with the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment of Britain’s Ground Forces lead classes on practicing the methods of movement of personnel as part of a unit, offensive and defensive actions, and conducting combat operations in populated areas for servicemen…

A Russian fighter jet nearly shot down a British surveillance plane last year, according to what is alleged to be a leaked U.S. military document circulating online. The incident is suggested to be more significant than was previously disclosed as it could have drawn the United States and its NATO allies directly into the Russian war on Ukraine, Washington Post reports. The near miss occurred on September 29 off the coast of Russia-occupied Crimea, the report reads. The document, one of dozens in a trove of leaked classified Pentagon documents that has triggered a Justice Department investigation, refers to the…

The commander of the air defense and anti-aircraft defense forces, deputy chief of the Russian aerospace forces, Andrii Dyomin, said the Russian military began working out defense issues at the country's northwestern borders after Finland joined NATO. This is reported by Ukrinform with reference to Dyomin's interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper run by the defense ministry. "Finland joined the NATO bloc. Sweden is preparing to join the alliance. In these conditions, our air defense forces are working out the issue of protecting the state border in the north-west of the country in accordance with increased threats," minister said. Read also: Türkiye…

Russia illegally holds 4,396 orphans from Ukraine in the temporarily occupied territories and on Russian territory, with an international coalition already being formed to bring the children back home. That's according to Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukrinform reports, citing the website of the Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories. "In this case, the assistance of the world community is very important to us. Currently, a pool of international leaders who have expressed their public support for such a coalition is already being formed. Among them are Ursula…

Russian occupation authorities are likely conducting a campaign of systematic religious persecution in occupied Ukraine. That's according to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Ukrinform reports. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 Russian soldiers or occupation authorities have reportedly committed at least 76 acts of religious persecution in Ukraine. According to ISW analysts,  Russian authorities have closed, nationalized, or forcefully converted at least 26 places of worship to the Kremlin-controlled Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, killed or seized at least 29 clergy or religious leaders, and looted, desecrated, or deliberately destroyed at…

On April 9, 2023, Russian troops attacked the Kherson region 78 times, having fired 360 projectiles. The relevant statement was made by Kherson Regional Military Administration Head Oleksandr Prokudin on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. Seventeen Russian projectiles hit the city of Kherson, namely the area and premises of a garage cooperative in the Korabelnyi district. Residential areas were struck across the region. According to Prokudin, no casualties among civilians were reported. Meanwhile, 90 more people were evacuated from the Kherson region’s de-occupied areas. A reminder that, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian troops…

Modern Western F-16 fighter jets are capable of destroying missiles and drones with one hundred percent success, which MiG and Su aircraft available in Ukraine cannot guarantee. "[MiG and Su aircraft] provide fighter cover, work against the strikes of Shahed drones and cruise missiles, that is, where there is a large air defense or mobile fire groups, there are places where fighters work. Unfortunately, they are not as effective in the destruction of missiles and drones as we would like. F-16 would perform the tasks of destroying missiles and drones with one hundred percent efficiency," Yuriy Ihnat, Spokesperson for the…

The choice of Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev as speaker at the April meeting of the Russian Security Council was an attempt to present the situation in the annexed territories of Ukraine as being normalized. The British Ministry of Defense reported this on Twitter with reference to intelligence data, Ukrinform saw. On April 5, 2023, the president of the aggressor state, Vladimir Putin, held a full meeting of the Security Council, for the first time since October 2022. The main report at the meeting was presented by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev. He spoke of reconstruction, law…

The enemy shelled Ukrainian positions in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk areas 1,844 times during the past week, which is three times less than in February this year. Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, head of the joint press center of the Defense Forces of Tavria area, said this during the nationwide news telethon, Ukrinform reports. "The pace of the Russian military has decreased somewhat compared to February. It has decreased by a third. This week alone, the enemy shelled our positions in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk directions 1,844 times - this is three times less compared to February. The most dangerous areas are the…