War in Ukraine. Latest information on April 4th [papildināts 10:36]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on April 4. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land for forty days.

10.36. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 18,300 soldiers by Monday morning, the Ukrainian Army General Staff reports.

Since the beginning of the invasion, the invaders have lost 147 aircraft, 134 helicopters, 647 tanks, 1844 armored personnel carriers, 330 cannons, 107 multi-barrel jet launchers, 54 anti-aircraft missile launch vehicles, four tactical missile launchers, 1,273 cars, 76 tankers, 25 tankers two ships and five speedboats.

09.29. The Ukrainian state must protect its citizens against the ideology of the “Russian world”, which is essentially a Nazi ideology, said the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the metropolitan of Kiev and all of Ukraine, Epiphany.

09.15. Russia’s leadership has begun mobilizing covert reservists and plans to attract some 60,000 people to the war against Ukraine, the Ukrainian army’s general staff said on Monday.

08.32. At present, Russia seems to be focusing on a “small victory” in the war in Ukraine, but a return to the big strategic goals in assessing the progress of the war in Ukraine is not ruled out, Colonel Didzis Nestro, Deputy Chief of Operational Affairs of the National Armed Forces, said in an interview with TV3.

According to the colonel, the main strategy of the Russian army at present is the concentration of forces, which could indicate the goal of achieving a “small victory”, which to present to the state society as a success by May 9.

08.17. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will urge German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up sanctions against Russia in talks this week, The Times reported. Johnson is expected to urge him to step up diplomatic, economic and military pressure on Russia.

07.58. Russian troops hit a rocket in Odessa on Monday night. “Odessa was hit by missiles at one of the targets at night,” said Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odessa Regional Military Operations Staff. An oil rig and refinery were damaged in a rocket attack by Russian troops in Odessa on Sunday.

07.34. Photos from Buch show that it is not necessary to look for a compromise with the aggressor at all costs, but instead Ukraine needs a lot of weapons now, said Polish President Andrzej Duda.

“Criminals need to be called criminals, brought to justice and tried. Photos from Buch show the fallacy of the belief that a compromise must be found at all costs. In fact, Ukrainian defenders first need three things – guns, guns and guns again,” Duda writes on Twitter.

07.10. Russian forces are leaving the Sumy region en masse, Dmitro Zhivicki, the head of the Sumy district administration, said. “Last week we saw a large gathering of Russian forces from Bilopil to Konotop, around Konotop. New columns came in, they entered, they spread terror in the area,” Zhivivki said. He explained that the concentration of equipment was due to the fact that Russian forces covered the retreat of their soldiers. Now the columns have left the area.

06.38. 1417 peaceful people have been killed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion on February 24, including 121 children and another 2,038 injured, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said. At the same time, the OHCHR emphasizes that these figures only reflect documented cases, but that the actual number of victims could be significantly higher.

04.57. Shots from Russian troops hit a hospital in Rubyzhne, Luhansk Oblast, on Sunday, killing one and wounding three, said Luhansk Oblast governor Serhiy Hayday.

04.36. The Ukrainian Armed Forces crashed two Russian military planes last day, Ukrainian Air Force said on Monday. One helicopter, one unmanned aerial vehicle and two cruise missiles were also shot down, the statement said. The Il-22 retransfer aircraft, which made an emergency landing at Rostov-on-Don airport in Russia, was also hit.

04.16. More than 2,600 people were evacuated from settlements surrounded or occupied by Russian troops along humanitarian corridors during the day in Ukraine, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk.

In a video call, she reported that a total of 2,694 people had been evacuated.

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02.47. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has blamed the Russian leadership for the massacre of civilians by Russian soldiers in Bucharest. He also announced that a special mechanism would be set up to bring those responsible to justice.

“I want all the leaders of the Russian Federation to see how your orders are being carried out. Here are such orders. Here is how to fulfill them. And for joint and several liability. “Zelensky said in a video address recorded on Sunday night about shooting in the back of the neck.

02.10. UN Secretary-General Antoni Gutherres has said he is deeply shocked by the massacre in the Ukrainian city of Bucca and called for an independent investigation into it. “I am deeply shocked by the images of civilians killed in Bucca, Ukraine. It is vital that an independent investigation leads to effective prosecution,” Gutherres was quoted as saying by the UN press service.

01.01. Seven people were killed and 34 injured in a shooting in a residential area in Kharkiv on Sunday, the Kharkiv district prosecutor’s office said. “At about 6 pm on April 3, Russian occupiers fired on residential buildings in the Sloboda district of Kharkiv. Ten buildings and a trolleybus depot were destroyed.

00.10. Since the beginning of the invasion, the Russian army has lost:

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