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Situation Summary
Russian forces advanced to the outskirts of Chasiv Yar and towards Ocheretino, northwest of Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region. Fighting also intensified near Robotyne in the Zaporizhia region and Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region.
The Ukrainian forces reportedly conducted a series of strikes on Russian troop concentrations and bases. On 13 April, Ukrainian forces struck the Russian military headquarters in Luhansk. On 15 April, Ukrainian forces struck a Russian military base in Berdiansk, in the Zaporizhia region. On 17 April, Ukrainian air forces struck a military airfield in Dzhankoy in occupied Crimea, causing damage to Russian air defense equipment, including four state-of-the-art S-400 air defense launchers, four radars, and an air defense control point. In addition, on 16 April, in occupied Yakimivka of the Zaporizhia region, unidentified individuals targeted a Russian-appointed local councilor with explosives, injuring him.
Russian air strikes and shelling killed at least 42 civilians in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions. On 17 April, Russian ballistic missiles hit Chernihiv city, killing 18 civilians and wounding 77 others. The strikes also damaged local infrastructure, including a hospital and an educational facility, alongside 17 apartment buildings and dozens of cars. On 19 April, a Russian airstrike on Dnipro city hit a railway station and a residential building, killing three civilians and wounding 24 others. On the same day, Russian shelling of the Synelnykivskyi district near Dnipro city killed five civilians, wounded six others, and destroyed civilian infrastructure and residential buildings. Ukrainian forces claimed they downed a Russian bomber that carried out the strikes.1Tom Balmforth and Anastasiia Malenko, ‘Ukraine downs Russian strategic bomber after airstrike kills eight, Kyiv says,’ Reuters, 19 April 2024
