Ukrainian defenders destroyed ten Russian tanks over past day - General Staff

The Russian Armed Forces are trying to continue offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, as well as to maintain a land corridor with the temporarily occupied Crimea,” reported from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 

Missile and airstrikes on civilian targets throughout Ukraine do not stop: "There was the intensification of the Russian missile strikes on civilian objects in the western regions on April 18.”

"Mobile long-range surface-to-air missile divisions of S-400 (SA-21 Growler) and S-300 (SA-10 Grumble) were deployed in the areas of the Belgorod region bordering on Ukraine to cover the main command and control points, as well as the rear areas. In the Izyum direction, the Russian forces are conducting offensive operations on the left bank of the Siversky Donets River. To support the offensive actions of the group in this direction, the enemy created a system of main and reserve firing positions for rocket and barrel artillery. In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian occupiers intensified offensive operations along the entire contact line,” the General Staff reported. 

According to the available updated information, the primary efforts of the enemy are focused on breaking through the defense of Ukrainian troops in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts: "The losses of the 126th Coast Guard Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet are up to 75%. The 810th Independent Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet lost 158 ​​servicemen killed, about 500 wounded, and 70 people are missing. The Ukrainian defenders repulsed seven enemy attacks, destroyed ten tanks, eighteen armored units and eight vehicles, one artillery system, and a mortar.”

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