Kiev, repulsed 58 Russian attacks in the last 24 hours

Moscow

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forces

continue to concentrate their offensive actions in the directions of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka in the

yesterday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported. Armies of Kiev, as reported by Ukrinform.

During the day, the Ukrainian Air Force also carried out six attacks on areas of concentration of Russian military personnel and equipment.

Yesterday the Russians launched 26 air raids and 4 missile attacks: 2 S-300 missiles hit civilian infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia causing damage, as well as deaths and injuries.

Russian forces also fired 2 S-300 missiles against civilian infrastructure in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, and launched 60 attacks against Ukrainian positions and civilian infrastructure in the cities of Kupyansk (in Kharkiv) and Druzhkivka (in Donetsk).

"Bakhmut is resisting and has a supply" of weapons, but "the Russians are more numerous

than us and have more ammunition". This was stated by Yuriy Syrotyuk, a Ukrainian military man in an interview on national television, adding that the situation in Bakhmut is "really tough" for the Kiev forces, as they are outnumbered by the troops and to the Wagner fighters. "It's hell in Bakhmut.

We are currently holding the right flank of the city's defense.

The enemy artillery is firing non-stop," he specified. The battles inside the city are "the most difficult because we are very close to the enemy," added Serhiy Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “But supply routes are still open and Ukrainian forces hold their positions,” he said,

stressing that Wagner's mercenary fighters have been "the most aggressive in Bakhmut's direction", and that Russian paratroopers and infantry soldiers are also engaged in the area.

Unofficial reports suggest that Russian forces are continuing their slow advance through the center of Bakhmut and into the western parts of the city, with the railway station as a potential next key target to conquer. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr

and from humanity after hitting a house in Zaporizhzhia with missiles on Orthodox Palm Sunday and killing a man and his daughter.

Ukrainska Pravda writes it, reporting extracts from its evening video message.

"Last night, the Russian army fired into Zaporizhzhia, hitting a residential building and killing" a 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter. "This is how the terrorist state spends this Palm Sunday. This is how Russia isolates itself even more from the world, from humanity", he specified. 

"I think China makes the same observation as us, which is to say that today the time is military. The Ukrainians are resisting and we are helping them. This is not the time

and if we have to lay the foundations. This is the purpose of this dialogue with China: to consolidate common approaches".

This was stated

in an interview with Les Echos at the end of his trip to China.

Ukraine has planted more than 6,000 anti-tank mines along its border with Russia and Belarus

to bolster its defenses, Kyiv joint forces commander Sergei Naev said on Telegram.

Defense lines, he stressed, focus on "possible paths of enemy advance deep into our territory, including the roads, forests, bridges…".

Ukrainian troops repulsed more than 50 Russian attacks yesterday

in the directions of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine: this was announced by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Kiev, as reported by the Kyiv Independent.

In the past 24 hours, Russia has launched four missiles, 40 air strikes and at least 58 attacks with MLRS multiple launch rocket systems against Ukrainian military positions and civilian infrastructure, the report continued.

The Ukrainian air defense for its part shot down two Supercam drones, six Orlan-10 drones and six Russian-made Zala drones.

Overall, the Ukrainian Air Force conducted 12 strikes against Russian bases in the country, while the ground forces hit two other bases, an ammunition depot, an air defense post and five electronic warfare stations with missiles and artillery. .

Russian bombs on Zaporizhzhia

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A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter died following last night's Russian shelling of the city of Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, the Emergencies Department of the homonymous region announced on Facebook, as reported by Ukrinform.

"On the night of April 9, the enemy launched a rocket attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia. A residential building was partially destroyed, and there was a fire over an area of ​​100 square meters, the neighboring houses and the windows of the buildings neighbors were partially damaged by the shock wave. At 8:00 (this morning) two people died, a 50-year-old father and his 11-year-old daughter," the message read. 

The Russian army

: the head of the regional military administration, Alexander Prokudin, announced this on Telegram, as reported by Rbc-Ukraine.

The city of Kherson was also hit, Prokudin specified, adding that there were no injuries or victims but that residential areas, power lines, a grain terminal and a shipyard were hit.

Five civilians have died and at least eight others have been injured in Ukraine in Russian bombing in the last 24 hours: this is what emerges from the reports of the governors of the affected regions, as reported by the Kyiv Independent.

Overall, the attacks affected eight of the country's 24 regions: Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Lugansk and Donetsk. 

Kiev, 468 Ukrainian children killed since the beginning of the war

There are 468 Ukrainian children killed and 947 injured since the beginning of the Russian invasion, on February 24, 2022. This was stated by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office quoted by Ukrinform.

In most cases, these are minors who lived in the Donetsk region.