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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
The Russian army conducted an unsuccessful offensive in the area of Bilohorivka.
Novoselivske, Nevske, Kuzmine, Pischane, Bilohorivka were subjected to artillery fire.
Donetsk Region
The Russians attacked Sloviansk with two S-300 missiles at night. There are no casualties. At least seven high-rise buildings and a school were damaged.
In the morning, there was shelling from the «Hurricanes» of the village of Solovyove of the Ocheretyn community. Information about the victims is being clarified.
During the day, the enemy shelled the town of Velyka Novosilka (residential sector), the town of Kurakhivka (residential sector), the town of Ocheretyn (residential sector), the village of Berestky (residential sector), the village of Karlivka (Karlivka reservoir).
Sumy Region
On Thursday morning, Russian troops fired four shots into the communities of Bilopillia and Nova Sloboda, three of them from mortars, one from the automatic grenade launcher.
Yesterday, during the day, the Russians attacked the border communities of Bilopillia, Nova Sloboda, Seredyno-Buda, Myropillia and Esman seven times. 75 hits from mortars, artillery and MLRS were recorded.
In the Esman community, a gas station was damaged as a result of two artillery strikes.
Two private households were damaged in the Myropillia community as a result of shelling (10 hits).
Kharkiv Region
The enemy shelled Veterynarne, Lukyantsi, Neskuchne, Vovchansk, Varvarivka, Nesterpne, Zemlianky, Komisarove, Kolodyazne, Novomlynsk, and Oskil.
Topoli, Krasne Pershe, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Kindrasivka and Oskil were under fire in the Kupyansk direction.
As a result of the shelling of the village of Sotnytskyi Kozachok, Bohodukhiv district, two private houses were damaged yesterday morning.
In the village of Ivashki, a private house and a tractor were damaged as a result of artillery shelling.
Also, yesterday afternoon, the Russians shelled the village of Kucherivka, Kupiansk district. The house was on fire.
As a result of the shelling of the village of Hatishche of the Chuhuiv district, the building of the branch of the Vovchansk Lyceum No. 1 was damaged, and a fire broke out.
A downed drone fell on the territory of an oil extraction plant in Prykolotne village of Kupiansk district.
According to the Regional Center of Emergency Medical Assistance, a 71-year-old man was killed yesterday as a result of shelling in the village of Dvorichna in the Kupiansk district. A 63-year-old woman was hospitalized with an injury. A 75-year-old man was injured in Dvorichna and died in hospital.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The Russian army fired artillery at residential buildings in Nikopol. Four elderly people were injured, two of them were hospitalized. 13 houses and two farm buildings were damaged in the city. A private enterprise was destroyed. Gas turbines and power lines were also damaged.
Zaporizhzhia Region
Russian terrorists struck 19 settlements in the Vasyliv and Polohy districts. The enemy attacked three times from aviation, once from MLRS, carried out 13 attacks using UAVs and 44 artillery attacks. There are damaged residential buildings and apartments.
Kherson Region
The invaders carried out 46 shellings during the day, firing 185 shells from UAV and aviation heavy artillery. The enemy shelled Kherson 5 times.
One person died, two were injured.
Yesterday morning, Russian artillery targeted residential buildings in the village of Vysuntsi, Muzikivka community. Windows were broken, roofs, greenhouses and solar panels were damaged.
A car ran into a Russian mine in a quarry near Tyahinka, one man was killed, and another was seriously injured.
The coastal Kozatske and Vesele regions of the Kakhovsky district are the most heavily shelled by the Russian military. All families with children were evacuated from the village of Kozatske.
During the day, another 72 people were evacuated from the liberated territory of the Kherson region.
UKRAINE: More than half a thousand Russians were eliminated during the day: the losses of the Russian Federation exceeded 180,500 – the General Staff
Ukraine may resort to «full mobilization» of the population – The Washington Post
How long will the war in Ukraine last: The Washington Post published information from secret documents
Russia wants to erase the identity of Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories – ISW
WORLD: Secret Pentagon documents leak: war losses 10 times higher than official figures – Reuters
Atrocities and cruelty are glorified: ISW analysts about the terrible execution of a Ukrainian soldier
Dictator Putin himself ordered the arrest of the American journalist WSJ – Bloomberg
The White House will hold a secret briefing for senators on the leak of secret Pentagon documents
Next week, on April 19, the White House will hold a closed briefing on the «leaking» of classified US documents.
The Biden administration will next week hold a closed-door briefing for US senators on the unauthorized release of top-secret documents on the war in Ukraine.
This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the assistant of the Democratic Party of the Senate.
According to him, the briefing will take place on April 19.
It is noted that this leak of Pentagon documents is probably the most serious that the United States has faced in the last decade. The US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the disclosure.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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