For more information, including previous situation summaries and an interactive dashboard, visit our Ukraine Conflict Monitor.
Situation Summary
Most of the week’s clashes again occurred in the Donetsk region. Russian forces continued advancing west of Bakhmut toward Chasiv Yar and seized a village on the town’s northeastern flank. Additionally, Russian forces captured another village southwest of Avdiivka.
On 11 April, Russian forces conducted coordinated strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, completely destroying the Trypillila thermal power plant south of Kyiv city, damaging two thermal power plants in the Kharkiv region and one in the Sumy region, and hitting a natural gas distribution facility and an electric substation in the Lviv region. Russian missiles and drones also targeted energy infrastructure in the Odesa and Zaporizhia regions. Two previous coordinated strikes on 21-22 and 28-29 March reportedly damaged seven thermal and two hydroelectric power plants across Ukraine.1Isobel Koshiw, ‘Russia changes tack on targeting Ukraine’s energy plants,’ Financial Times, 8 April 2024
Russian airstrikes and shelling killed at least 44 civilians across Ukraine – more than twice as many as in the previous week. Half of these fatalities again occurred in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. Russian strikes also killed 18 civilians in the Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhia regions.
Meanwhile, Russian-installed management of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant claimed that Ukrainian drones hit the plant on two occasions, killing one employee. On 12 April, the Russian occupation government in the Zaporizhia region claimed that Ukrainian shelling also killed 16 civilians and wounded 28 others in the Russian-held Tokmak.
