Russia - Ukraine war operational update of the General Staff of Ukraine for the last 24 hours for April 1, 2024.
768 day of the russian large-scale invasion and 3,692 day of the russia's war against Ukraine begins.
During the past day, 53 combat clashes took place.
In total, the russian occupiers launched 22 missile and 79 air strikes, launched 97 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas. As a result of Russian terrorist attacks, unfortunately, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population. A number of high-rise buildings and other objects of civil infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.
At night, Russian terrorists attacked Ukraine again, using 3 Shahed drones. Anti-aircraft defense of Ukraine destroyed 2 attack drones.
During the past day, the following Ukrainian settlements were hit by the Russian occupiers airstrikes: Oleksandrivka, Sumy region; Kozacha Lopan, Ohirtseve, Kharkiv, Borschova, Vovchansk, Petropavlivka, Kotlyarivka, Cherneshchyna, Pershotravneve of the Kharkiv region; Belogorivka of the Luhansk Region; Terny, Yampolivka, Chasiv Yar, Rozdolivka, Umanske, Novobakhmutivka, Ocheretyne, Berdychi, Orlivka, Novomykhailivka, Pobyeda, Urozhane, Staromayorske of the Donetsk region; Hulyaipole, Robotyne of the Zaporizhzhia region.
More than 110 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions came under the artillery fire of the Russian invaders.
In the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation remains without significant changes.
In the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas, conducts sabotage activities to prevent our troops from moving to dangerous directions, and increases the density of mine and explosive barriers along the state border.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Kupyansk direction.
In the Lyman direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 3 enemy attacks in the area of Terna settlement of Donetsk region, where the Russian invaders, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defense of Ukrainian troops.
In the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 8 attacks in the areas of populated areas: Belogorivka of the Luhansk region; Verkhnokamianske, Ivanivske, Klishchiivka, Andriivka of the Donetsk region.
In the Avdiyivka direction, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled 13 attacks in the areas of settlements: Berdychi, Semenivka, Umanske, Pervomaiske and Nevelske of the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to knock out Ukrainian units from the occupied lines.
In the Novopavlivskyi direction, the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to hold back the Russian invaders in the areas of populated areas: Georgiivka, Novomykhailivka, and eastern Vodyanyi of the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 22 times to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops.
In the Orykhiv direction, the Russian occupiers launched 2 attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the districts of Staromayorskyi, Donetsk region, and Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region.
In the Kherson area, the Russian occupiers are trying to knock out the Ukrainian units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. During the past day, Russian invaders attacked the positions of Ukrainian troops in this direction twice.
During the past day, the Air Force of the Defense Forces struck 11 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment and 3 anti-aircraft missile complexes of the enemy.
Units of the missile forces damaged 3 drone control points, an air defense device, 1 radio electronic warfare station and 1 artillery device of the Russian invaders.
Last day, the total losses of the enemy amounted to: 710 Russian invaders, 20 tanks, 17 armored combat vehicles, 32 artillery systems, an air defense device, 26 operational-tactical drones, 9 missiles, 35 vehicles and 3 units of special equipment.
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- A joint investigation by 60 Minutes, the Insider, and Der Spiegel strongly suggests that the Kremlin has waged a sustained kinetic campaign directly targeting US government personnel both in the United States and internationally for a decade, with the likely objective of physically incapacitating US government personnel.
- The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is intensifying efforts to falsely implicate Ukraine in the March 22 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack while denying any Islamic State (IS) responsibility or involvement in the attack.
- Russian authorities are taking measures to further crack down against migrant communities in Russia following the Crocus City Hall attack.
- Russian forces recently made confirmed advances near Avdiivka and in the east (left) bank of Kherson Oblast amid continued positional engagements along the entire line of contact on April 1.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) continues to reassure the Russian public that Russian military conscripts will not deploy to most of occupied Ukraine nor participate in combat operations in Ukraine amid the start of the spring semi-annual military conscription call-up that started on April 1.
Russian Subordinate Main Effort #1 – Luhansk Oblast (Russian objective: Capture the remainder of Luhansk Oblast and push westward into eastern Kharkiv Oblast and northern Donetsk Oblast)
Positional fighting continued near Kreminna on April 1, but there were no confirmed changes on the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line. Positional fighting continued west of Kreminna near Terny and south of Kreminna near Bilohorivka.[22] Ukrainian “Steel Border” border detachment Spokesperson Ivan Shevtsov stated that Russian forces have not conducted an attack in the Kupyansk direction since March 29 and are generally conducting fewer assaults in this direction while they rest and reconstitute, whereas Russian forces have conducted up to 16 assaults per day in the Lyman direction in the past week.[23] ISW has previously observed that Russian forces undulate between attacking in the Kupyansk and Kreminna directions in order to maintain constant offensive pressure against defending Ukrainian units along this line.[24] Elements of the Chechen Akhmat Spetsnaz “Aida” detachment continue to operate near Bilohorivka.[25]
Russian Subordinate Main Effort #2 – Donetsk Oblast (Russian objective: Capture the entirety of Donetsk Oblast, the claimed territory of Russia’s proxies in Donbas)
Russian sources claimed that Russian forces advanced west of Bakhmut, but ISW has not observed visual confirmation of these claims. Several Russian sources claimed on April 1 that elements of the 98th Guards Airborne (VDV) Division have advanced towards Chasiv Yar (west of Bakhmut) through forested areas in the Stupky-Holobovskiy-2 nature reserve and are now between 650 meters and one kilometer from the eastern outskirts of Chasiv Yar.[26] ISW has only collected data to confirm that Russian forces are about 1.5 kilometers from the eastern outskirt of Chasiv Yar at the furthest point of their confirmed advance. Geolocated footage posted on April 1 shows the aftermath of an unsuccessful Russian armored vehicle attack on Ivanivske (between Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar),… Ukrainian and Russian sources reported that positional fighting continued west of Bakhmut near Ivanivske; northwest of Bakhmut near Bohdanivka; and southwest of Bakhmut near Andriivka and Klishchiivka.[28]