Captured Ukrainian military equipment in Kharkiv region
The Russian Armed Forces and forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics are developing their operation against units of the Kyiv government. The Russian military continues to carry out strikes on military targets all across Ukraine. Nonetheless, the ground phase of the operation is currently mostly being developed in the region of the Donbass.
As of April 5, clashes have been ongoing in the areas of the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk agglomeration and Popasnaya. The town of Severodonetsk remains partly in the hands of Russian-led forces, while the entire agglomeration itself is blocked from the north, east and southeast.
Fighting also took place east and northeast of Pervomaisk, near Avdiivka and in the eastern part of Maryinka. DPR forces also achieved tactical success in the area southwest of Gorlovka city. The villages of Novobahmutka and Verhnotoreckoe were taken under control.
The most intense clashes continued in Mariupol, where units of the DPR and the Russian Armed Forces regularly make tactical gains steadily pushing towards the full liberation of the city.
Clashes in Mariupol:
The recent surrender of a battalion of troops the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area once again demonstrates that the real situation on the ground for Kyiv’s forces is much more harder than the Ukrainian leadership and MSM try to present. The fate of the garrison of Kyiv’s forces surrounded there is predetermined. The recent breakthroughs on the frontline put the defense of the remaining Ukrainian units there on the edge of the total collapse.
Clashes in Rubezhone:
On April 5, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that in the evening of April 4, a strike with long-range sea-based weapons destroyed a training centre for Ukrainian special operations forces near Ochakov. Among other things, the facility was used to house foreign mercenaries.
Additionally, a strike with air-based missiles destroyed 4 fuel depots used for supplying groups of Ukrainian troops near Kremenets, Cherkasy, Zaporozhye and Novomoskovsk.
Captured Ukrainian military equipment in Kharkiv region:
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During the night, operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 134 military assets of Ukraine. The targets included 8 command posts and communication hubs, 1 radar for the S-300 missile system, a launcher of the Tochka-U missile system, 6 ammunition depots and 2 fuel depots, as well as 85 strong points and areas of military equipment gathering.
At the same time, Russian air defense forces shot down 4 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air near Chernobaevka, Industrialnaya, Gurty and Nizhnyaya Krynka.
According to the Russian side, since the start of the operation, Russian forces have destroyed 125 Ukrainian aircraft and 91 helicopters, 398 unmanned aerial vehicles, 226 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,969 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 214 multiple launch rocket systems, 852 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,873 units of special military vehicles.
The Russian Defense Ministry added that it has obtained information about another staged provocation prepared by Kyiv’s forces.
“According to confirmed information, on the evening of April 4, in the village of Moshun, 23 kilometers north-west of Kiev, servicemen of the 72 Ukrainian main center for psychological operations carried out another staged filming of civilians allegedly killed by the violent actions of the Russian Armed Forces for subsequent distribution through the Western media. Similar events have been organized by the Ukrainian special services in Sumy, Konotop and other cities,” the defense ministry said in a statement.
As the Russian military operation in Ukraine will continue, it is expected that the Ukrainian leadership and its foreign sponsors will contribute even more efforts for staging various provocations, mostly aimed against civilians.
