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Tuesday, 30 December 2025, 16:28
The use of banned substances by the Russian military has become systematic: in particular, the enemy uses chemicals to “smoke” Ukrainian soldiers out of their shelters almost every day.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi discussed the situation in Sumy region and the build-up of combat capabilities with commanders and chiefs of military services.
The Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have successfully struck a place near the village of Tiotkino, Kursk region, from where the Russian military launches attack drones.
Ukrainian rugby player Ihor Vlasiuk was killed in action on April 17, 2025, while carrying out a combat mission.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in cooperation with the police, detained a woman in the Khmelnytskyi region who was collecting intelligence for Russia to facilitate missile and drone strikes on military facilities in western Ukraine, particularly airfields.
Russian forces used an "Easter ceasefire" to bring in additional reserves and equipment in preparation for further assault operations.
Russian troops are gradually retreating from the western outskirts of Pokrovsk following an unsuccessful attempt to cut off the route from the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russian forces shelled a kindergarten in Kherson's Dniprovskyi district this morning.
On Monday morning, Russian troops attacked a private household in a village within the Esman community of the Sumy region, killing a man.
During the so-called Easter ceasefire announced by Russia, Ukrainian border guard units recorded numerous shellings along the border and enemy assault attempts.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces have thwarted an attempt by the Russian invaders to break through on motorcycles in the Toretsk sector of the front.
In Kherson region, Russian forces attacked residents of Bilozerka with a drone while they were walking down the street — an elderly woman was killed, and a 47-year-old man was injured.
Troops from the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other units, captured nine Russian servicemen in Russia’s Kursk region.
At nighttime on April 21, Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 42 Russian combat drones over the Ukrainian territory, while 47 other enemy UAVs (drone decoys) were lost from radar tracking without causing any damage.
The snap “Easter truce” proposed by Russia underscores the need for any ceasefire or peace agreement to be publicly available, officially agreed upon in advance by all parties, and to include robust monitoring mechanisms.
Over the past day, April 20, there were 96 combat clashes between Ukrainian defenders and Russian forces, with the heaviest fighting occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian troops struck the Dnipro, Synelnyk and Nikopol districts of the Dnipro region yesterday, causing fires, damage to infrastructure and other buildings.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to April 21, 2025, amount to about 941,770 people, including 670 people in the last day.
Russian troops attacked Mykolaiv with missiles at dawn on April 21, without causing any damage or casualties.
On Easter, the occupiers launched 133 strikes on 7 settlements of Zaporizhzhia region, 25 of them were air strikes.
The activity of Russian reconnaissance UAVs is observed in Sumy region.
In the Kherson region, a 31-year-old man was injured after his motorcycle struck a mine.
In the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk region, Russian authorities have "nationalized" more than 114,000 Ukrainian real estate properties.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) fighters have destroyed 610 Russian positions and fortifications, as well as 15 ammunition depots over the past two weeks.
20 April 2025
Since the beginning of the day, the Russian army has violated the ceasefire declared by Vladimir Putin more than 2,000 times.
The Kremlin has announced plans to resume combat operations from 00:00 on April 21, disregarding President Volodymyr Zelensky’s initiative to prolong the Easter ceasefire, which Moscow unilaterally declared the day before.
Soldiers of the Spartan Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine prevented Russian troops from making a breakthrough in the Pokrovsk direction, and during the battle the soldiers captured one of the invaders.
On Sunday, April 20, in the morning, the bodies of a man and a woman were removed from the rubble of a house in Kostiantynivka.
As of 16:00 on Easter Sunday, Russians have conducted 46 assault operations and over 900 attacks, including more than 400 uses of FPV drones.