Crimeous Russian attacks on the Corner Curves. 1140th Day of War
Russian troops are moving slow in most directions in Donbasa. They one more time displaced Ukrainian soldiers from most of the previously recovered quarters of Torećek, and occupied fresh areas north of it. Under the control of the aggressor, another towns passed between Pokrowski and Welyka Nowosłąska, and there was besides the flanking of the forces of the opponent remaining in the centre of Timeiw Jaru. crucial field advancement was made by invaders on the western bank of the river Żerebec, but it does not affect the overall situation. They besides expelled defenders from subsequent positions west of Orchiwa in the Zaporos region and north of Kupańsk in the Kharkiv region.
After many weeks of fighting, the Russians most likely captured Basivka in the Sumic region, but denies this Ukrainian command. Due to the accomplishment by the aggressor of the Sumy-Kursk road around the border crossing point Suja, however, had no prior importance for them. In the Kursk Oblast, Ukrainians are already only in areas with a poorly developed road network – in border Olesznia (south of this border crossing) and west of the Russian troops of Gujwa.
President Volodymyr Zelenski officially acknowledged that the Ukrainian army is active in the BIRD region. Earlier, however, Russian forces had pushed the opponent distant from the border demidovka they had been attacking for respective weeks. The Ukrainian control remains, depending on the sources, between 30 and 60 km2 hostile territory in the Kursk and Bielgorod circuits. respective twelve square kilometres of the Sumi circuit occupy the Russians.
On 4 April, the Russian ballistic rocket Iskander-M exploded over a residential building in Krzywy Horn, resulting in 20 deaths, including 9 children, and over 70 were injured. This is the largest one-time number of civilian aggressor attack victims since April 2024 erstwhile his rocket struck the Chernihs. The Russians indirectly admitted that the mark of the impact was a residential area, according to which the bullet was to hit a restaurant there with allegedly Ukrainian brigade commanders and Western instructors. Another attack on the Corner Curve took place the same night – drones hit the company, killing 1 and hurting 7 people. The industrial facility was besides the mark of a ballistic rocket that fell on the city on April 2. 4 people were killed and 17 were injured.
On April 6, the iscanders hit Kiev, causing demolition in 3 areas of the city. 1 was killed and 3 people were injured. For the first time, the Ukrainian Air Force Command (DSP) admitted the failure to repel the air attack on the capital and its surroundings – of the six utilized by the ballistic rocket aggressor, only 1 was to be shot down. DSP spokesperson Yuri Ihnat stated that only Patriot systems are successful in combating enemy ballistic missiles, with besides fewer of them. However, NASAMS and IRIS-T do not have the capability to counter specified missiles.
The attack on Kiev was part of a mass impact in which, apart from the sparks, invaders utilized drones and maneuvering missiles simultaneously. They led to demolition in the Khmelnitsky, Cherkasy, Kiev and Kirovohradsk circuits. 8 hits were recorded in Sumach solely as a consequence of an unmanned attack. According to DSP, the Russians utilized a full of 23 rockets and 109 drones, from which defenders shot down 13 and 40 respectively. 53 drones were to be lost locally.
A large number of civilian casualties resulted in the Russian drone strike in Kharkiv on 3 April – 5 people died and 34 were injured. Unmanned attacked this city twice besides on April 2. In the evening, as many as 14 strokes were reported. The drones were besides targeted by Zaporozhes (3 April), Dniepr (4 April) and Kiev and Nicholas (5 April). From the evening of 1 April to the morning of 8 April, invaders utilized at least 438 impact drones and their imitationsThe DSP did not supply data for 7 April, even though it had already reported attacks utilizing unmanned aircraft. 211 machines were shot down and 164 Localized lost. importantly compared to erstwhile weeks, the simplification in the number of drone aggressors utilized did not translate into an increase in Ukrainian declared effectiveness in combating them. The enemy was besides to usage 28–30 rockets, from which 13 were shot down (all 6 April).
2 April The safety Service of Ukraine (SBU) provided data on the activities of peculiar aggressor services towards Ukrainian citizens. According to information, 22% of recruited agents are underage people utilized for sabotage and explosives planting; 55% recruited are unemployed, and 7% are persons with a criminal record. The youngest SBU exposed erstwhile destroying railway infrastructure were 13 years old.
The SBU besides published a list of people cooperating with the enemy, whose task is to advance Vladimir Putin's thought of setting up a temporary commission board in Ukraine under the aegis of the UN. The next phase of the "plan" is to bring about elections in the country and to set up a "government" acceptable to the Russian conditions of the peace agreement. According to SBU materials, this "government" will then effort to make "alternative diplomatic missions" in EU countries. The leader of this group is Dmytro Wasylec – the president of the banned marginal pro-Russian Derzhava organization in 2022. The initiative is simply a typical disinformation peculiar operation to propose the existence of a strong pro-Russian political movement in Ukraine.
4 April Ukrainian abroad intelligence service warned that Russian services are intensifying the information operation against Ukraine. Broadcasts are being circulated that undermine the legitimacy of the current authorities, which is to justify the request for a "comisar board". The promotion of specified solutions is besides intended to argue that the FR cannot enter into a peace agreement with the Kiev rulings. The operation is conducted utilizing European media supporting Russian narrative, Telegram, Tick-Tok and YouTube portal. There are besides claims about the alleged divided between the military and political leadership of Ukraine, the inability of this country to carry out war on its own or to halt support by the West. The operation aims to instill political discourse in partner countries Ukraine's Kremel communicative on the prospects of ending the conflict.
On 5 April, Ukrainian drones attacked industrial facilities in Czapajewsk in the Samar region and in Sarańsk in Mordowia. In the first of the village the mark were Promsintiez plants, producing explosives (according to the SBU, hits occurred), and in the second – Optikowolokonnyje Sistiema, supplying fibre optics, among others, to utilized by an aggressor in Ukraine unmanned (an office building was damaged). According to Russian data, Ukrainian forces carried out 2 major attacks in FR territory on April 2 and 4 respectively, utilizing at least 93 and at least 107 drones. On 4 April, 1 of the targets was to be the Newlipiet Metalurgical Combination. No information is available to guarantee that the impact results in crucial damage. Moscow continues to accuse Kiev of not respecting the moratorium on attacking energy infrastructure.
Norway in 2025 will increase the funds for the military support of Ukraine by $4.6 billion (50 billion Norwegian kronor). This was reported by Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg on 4 April. A full of $7.8 billion (85 billion kroner) will be contributed to Ukrainian defence this year. More than $455 million is to be spent on the acquisition of ammunition – 364 million under an initiative coordinated by the Czech Republic and 91 million through the European Peace Instrument.
The value of the 25th Danish military aid package will be over US$981 million (6.7 billion Danish kronor) and will be transferred from 2025 to 1927 – announced the Ministry of Defence of Denmark on 3 April. Of this, $205 million will be spent on artillery and ammunition and the remaining funds will be spent on air defense, national contributions to drone and IT coalitions and investments in the Ukrainian arms industry.
Latvia has transferred 1500 unmanned workers to Ukraine, notified on 1 April by the Minister of Defence of this country Andris Sprūds. Within the drone coalition, Latvian producers will deliver 12 1000 machines to Kiev in the first half of 2025, worth a full of EUR 17 million.
U.S. Secretary of defence will not attend the gathering of a group of states supporting Ukraine in Ramstein format for the first time – stated defence News portal on April 2, citing American and European sources. The gathering is scheduled to take place on 11 April and is to be chaired by Germany and the United Kingdom. So far, there has been no information on who will replace Pete Hegseth from the United States.
3 April The Ukrainian Ministry of Digitization announced that Poland transferred another 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine. With the support of global partners, Kiev has managed to make more than 50,000 devices available. Most – 29,5 1000 – comes from Poland, which spent PLN 323 million to acquisition and pay the subscription from the beginning of the invasion until mid-March.
Satellite images confirmed that in fresh monthsIn Kercz, Crimea, the construction of a 23900 “Iwan Rogow” task for the FR Navy was accelerated.. The construction of him and his duplicate unit "Mitrofan Moskalenko" began in 2020 as a consequence of the failure of the acquisition concept for the Russian fleet of French Mistral helicopters (under force from the USA Paris withdrew from their sale). Originally, the ships were to be completed this year, but the Ukrainian attacks on Crimea from 2022 to 2024 led to a temporary halt. According to the latest reports, “Iwan Rogow” is scheduled to enter service in 2027. If that happens, it will be the largest ship in the Black Sea and the second largest in the Navy FR (after the aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuzniecow”).
The resumption and acceleration of the construction of the "Iwana Rogowa" confirms that the Russians do not now see the enemy's attacks on the peninsula as a serious threat. Ukrainians besides admit that it is increasingly hard for them to scope their targets in Crimea. In an interview given on 7 April, Radio Swoboda, commander of the Navy of Ukraine, Admiral Alexey Nejizhpapa addressed, among others, the "multi-layer" strategy of defence of the peninsula created by the aggressor, which is presently incapable to break the successful Ukrainian water-based kamikaze drones in erstwhile years.
On 1 April, associate of Parliament's National Security, Defence and Intelligence Committee Fedir Wenisławski revealed that the Ministry of Defence developed a fresh mechanics allowing selective rotation of soldiers on the front and giving a fewer months' remainder after 90 days of service in the combat zone. This is an ad hoc step to improve the terms of service in a situation where the Ministry of Defence under the force of the General Staff delays the adoption of the Demobilization Act guaranteeing a mandatory rotation, as it fears that the inclusion of 108,000 soldiers (including 14,000 officers) will worsen the situation on the front.
