In the Chernihiv region, 380,000 consumers were left without electricity as a result of a Russian attack on the morning of April 18.

The total combat losses of Russian forces from February 24, 2022, to April 18 2026 in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,317,150 personnel, including 1,080 over the past day.

Russia is preparing to intensify information and hybrid attacks against the EU and NATO, as Vladimir Putin has been convinced that now is the right moment to "destabilize" them in order to reduce their support for Ukraine.

Intelligence officers intercepted a conversation between servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces who complained about the lack of food and water at their positions, indicating serious logistical difficulties.

On the night of April 18, Russian forces struck a residential building in the city of Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region with a drone.

In early April, a unit of the National Guard, Lasar’s Group, carried out a special operation in the Luhansk region, destroying a BM-30 Smerch multiple launch rocket system and other Russian military equipment deep behind enemy lines.

Drones struck an oil depot in the area of Kozacha Bay in temporarily occupied Crimea.

The Russian authorities are concerned about the condition of their military contingent in Transnistria and want to strengthen it in some way.

In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, 34 children remain in the districts of Sloviansk where the mandatory evacuation of families with children is underway.

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