Active Hostilities In Ukraine

Timeline of the 54th day of the war.

Ukraine has been fighting for its freedom for 54 days. Direct combat clashes occur in the Joint Forces Operation zone and the Kharkiv region. The enemy is carrying out artillery and missile attacks in other operational directions.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy tried unsuccessfully to gain a foothold in the areas of Kreminna and Rubizhne. It carried out assault operations in the areas of Novotoshkivske, Popasna, Avdiivka and Marinka. It was also unsuccessful.

Charter97.org is broadcasting online the 54th day of the war. You can see the developments in Ukraine on April 17 in our previous online broadcast.

Ukraine 24 TV channel special broadcast

23:23 The second phase of the war has begun, said Andriy Yermak, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

A lot of fakes are now spreading about the Russian offensive. The second phase of the war has begun, but I will tell you that everything is reliable in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Believe in our army, we have a very strong one," he says.

23:10 Volodymyr Zelensky's new address:

22:58 Air defense units in Donbas shot down one enemy Su-30 fighter and four unmanned aerial vehicles of the Orlan-10 type, the headquarters of the Joint Forces Operation reports.

During the current day, the servicemen of the JF grouping successfully repelled 7 enemy attacks, thr eneby suffered losses. Also, the Ukrainian defenders destroyed 10 tanks, 1 artillery system, 18 armored units, 8 vehicles, I nd one enemy mortar along with the crew.

22:46 A resident of Bucha, Ilya Navalny, found dead, turned out to be a second cousin of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, their common relative Pavel Navalny told the BBC Ukrainian Service.

"Yes, Ilya was a distant relative of Alexei, they have a common great-grandfather," he said.

22:30 Commander of the Azov Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Denys Prokopenko addressed world leaders.

At the Azovstal plant, which is currently being bombed by Russian aircraft, there are many civilians who are hiding there from the invaders.

22:25 The military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation will be the next target of the US sanctions, the US Treasury said.

22:14 A cell phone saved the Ukrainian soldier from death. Attention, foul language.

22:02 Head of the Rada of the Belarusian People's Republic Ivonka Survila addressed the Belarusian volunteers.

21:50 An air raid alert has been announced in all regions of Ukraine.

21:46 Members of the "Antitela" band from the first day of the war defended Kyiv as part of the Territorial Defense. Now the musicians have gone to Kharkiv, where they are helping to defend the city from the Russian invaders.

21:35 Today, there are already 2 million 120 thousand people in Kyiv, because many people who left Kiev have already returned to the city. This was announced by the mayor of the capital Vitaliy Klitschko.

21:21 In the 58th separate motorized infantry brigade named after Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky, they told the story of the Ukrainian defender Tetyana, who was previously an ordinary confectioner, and now defends Ukraine from Russia.

21:09 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov confirmed the start of a new Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine. He says that the Russian fascists managed to occupy two cities there, and currently the fighting continues.

21:00 Today, 13 civilians were killed in Kharkiv as a result of shelling, the police of the Kharkiv region reported.

20:51 The Russian invaders showed how they bombed Azovstal, dropping super-heavy bombs there, although they knew that there were civilians inside.

20:43 Since the end of last week, Russia has brought another 11 battalion tactical groups to the territory of Ukraine, a senior representative of the US Department of Defense said.

20:32 The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated the captain of the Russian landing ship "Caesar Kunikov" Alexander Chirva.

A native of the occupied Crimea, Chirva went into the service of the Russians and committed war crimes in Syria, and then in Ukraine. He rose to the rank of commander of the large landing ship "Caesar Kunikov" of the 197th brigade of landing ships of the Black Sea Navy, was the captain of the 3rd rank.

20:25 Spain will reopen its embassy in Kyiv in the coming days, becoming the last country to return its diplomats to the Ukrainian capital.

20:17 Italy will help Ukraine with weapons, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said.

According to him, the decision to support Ukraine was made almost unanimously in the Parliament.

20:06 In the Azov video, a Russian soldier threw a Ukrainian grenade from under his car towards his colleagues.

20:01 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are destroying the invaders near Mykolaiv, some enemy units have lost more than 70% of their composition — a tapped conversation of the Russians.

19:34 The situation report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of the evening of April 18 has been published.

19:25 A resident of Borodyanka fed the occupiers bryndza cheese with raticide.

19:07 Military Russian propagandist Sladkov disgraced himself on television, confusing Polish and Ukrainian languages. He believed that the Americans used the Latin script to write instructions in Ukrainian.

19:02 Ukrainians have launched the Memomet app, where everyone can create funny pictures.

18:56 Serhiy Volyn, the commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade named after Rear Admiral Mikhail Belinsky, turned from the encircled Mariupol to the world with a request for help.

18:45 The psychotherapist named Putin's diagnosis. According to Elena Rykhalskaya, the Kremlin dictator lives in two realities and probably suffers from schizophrenia.

"I didn’t test him, or analyze him, but as a psychotherapist I can say that he is very likely to have something similar to schizophrenia," the specialist stated.

18:37 The Russians have completed the regrouping of their troops and are ready for an offensive in the Donbas.

At the same time, according to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the enemy does not stop inflicting missile and bomb strikes on the country's infrastructure facilities. In particular, the number of air missions by operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Federation increased by more than 1.5 times.

18:27 Near Kyiv, Ukrainian security forces detained an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group. Beware of the foul language.

18:19 In the Mykolaiv region, the artillerymen of the 80th Specialized School of Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine smashed a column of occupiers' equipment, including the enemy's command and staff vehicle. This was done when the invaders took the villagers for interrogation and threatened to shoot everyone if they did not say who was correcting the fire for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The locals took advantage of the moment during the shelling and freed themselves from captivity. A total of 25 Russian soldiers were killed.

18:05 The Russians are told that they will have to brew moss instead of coffee.

17:58 Zelensky handed over the completed questionnaire to the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas for the state to obtain the status of a candidate for membership in the European Union.

17:50 In the Chernihiv region, the villagers showed the consequences of the "liberation" of the local school by the Russian occupiers.

17:41 Putin awarded the title of "Guards" to his 64th brigade, the units of which were among those who committed the massacre in Bucha, and then shamefully fled.

17:31 This is how Ukrainian Hurricanes work.

17:24 Belarusians took to the action in support of Ukraine on Cathedral Square in Vilnius.

17:13 The village of Horenka in the Bucha district was recognized as the most destroyed populated area as a result of the Russian military aggression. According to the UN, damage is observed on almost 80% of the territory of the settlement. This is what Horenka looks like two weeks after the liberation of the Kyiv region from the Russian fascists:

17:03 In Kyiv, the queue for postage stamps with a Russian warship stands to the sound of a siren.

16:52 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated a number of settlements around Izyum in the Kharkiv region. This was stated by the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk.

Motuzyanyk noted that it is in the Slobozhansky direction that the city of Izyum and its environs are the places where Russian units are most concentrated.

16:48 More than 1 million citizens returned to Ukraine during the war, says Andriy Demchenko, a representative of the Ukrainian State Border Service. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, by April 18, almost 4.9 million people had left Ukraine. About 2.8 million of them were accepted by Poland.

16:40 Putin signed a decree on the cost of a dead (or injured) FSB officer during the war with Ukraine.

So, a dead FSB officer is worth 5 million rubles and 3 million in case of injury, respectively.

16:34 The first part of Ukraine's application form for EU membership has been sent to the European Commission, said Olha Stefanishyna, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine.

"As President Zelensky promised, Ukraine completed the document in a week! Work has already begun on the second part," Stefanishina says.

16:27 A well-known Homel street musician is working as a volunteer in Kyiv.

16:20 Nickelodeon, Paramount Channel, Paramount Comedy and MTV Russia will stop broadcasting in Russia on April 20.

16:11 Chernihiv is one of those cities that took the blow of the first stage of the Russian invasion. A local resident, an Afghan veteran, told how the invaders robbed him and took away his medal for military merit.

16:05 Ukrainian singer Vitaliy Kozlovsky presented the song and video "Other Spring". In the video work, the musician showed footage of the battered Kyiv after the arrival of the "liberators" from the Russian Federation.

15:52 A full version of the video has appeared from the center of Kharkiv, where yesterday, after the bombing, doctors were rescuing residents under the shelling by the occupiers.

15:39 There will be no additional days off for Easter and May holidays during martial law in Ukraine. Therefore, April 25, May 2 and May 9 are regular working days.

15:16 The defence of Mariupol continues. The AZOV Battalion fighters are conducting a counterattack, despite the superiority of the enemy forces.

15:03 Svitlana from Bucha survived the occupation and told how she “brought up” the orcs who toppled her fence.

14:52 A Swedish citizen sold his sailing yacht to buy several ambulances for Ukraine. Driving one of them, he himself arrived in Trostianets, Sumy region. Swedish doctors also donated funds to buy ambulances.

14:33 In Russian Krasnodar, a 23-year-old guy was detained, who pulled a sofa out into the street and wrote “ZLO” (the evil) next to it.

He told the police that his girlfriend from Mariupol stopped communicating after the invasion of Ukraine.

14:12 A Ukrainian Armed Forces tank destroyed a Russian infantry fighting vehicle with a shot through the building.

13:58 Map of combat operations in Ukraine according to the British Ministry of Defense as of April 18.

13:40 Ukrainians came to a protest in New York before Saburov's concert. The “Putin's clown” event was boycotted due to the fact that at his last concert he had played a bad joke with a Ukrainian woman who appeared on stage in a bloody dress.

13:35 Google Maps opened up access to military and strategic facilities of the Russian Federation. Now they are visible in a full resolution.

13:26 Andriy Godik, the first deputy head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, said that rubble was being cleared in Lviv.

According to him, the fire at the tyre centre, targeted by Russian shells today, will be extinguished in a couple of hours. Information on the dead and injured will also be clarified after the liquidation of the consequences of the missile strikes.

13:15 The Mykolaiv region A column of Russian military equipment was defeated in defence actions in Voznesensk and nearby settlements.

13:07 People's Deputy Viktor Medvedchuk, detained by the Security Service of Ukraine, appealed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin with a proposal to exchange him for defenders and residents of Mariupol.

13:02 The Russian occupiers abandoned their BTR-82A when they noticed that they were under attack by the Right Sector of the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (DUK).

12:40 The atrocities of the Russian military in Ukraine have deep roots in the Russian army, according to The New York Times. Combined with the apparent strategy of bombing civilian targets, many observers conclude that the Russian government and parts of Russian society are in fact approving violence against civilians.

12:19 Soldiers of the 54th Brigade showed how to destroy the occupiers.

12:06 Russian invaders continue their forced mobilization in the so-called "LDNR" (Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics).

They catch men on the streets, pick them up from work, and drag them out of their apartments and even out of buses. They dress the "recruits" in unmarked uniforms, take all their documents away and send them to the front line.

They transport them in closed railway cars not let them run away.

11:47 A column of Russian vehicles was spotted on the Kupiansk-Izyum road. They noticed Grad-1 missile system on the basis of the ZIL truck, which was produced in the early 70s. These museum exhibits were last used by the USSR in the Afghan war.

11:30 Spotify was removed from the Russian App Store and Google Play. A week earlier, the music service announced a complete shutdown of business in Russia.

11:23 The Ukrainian Armed Forces showed the moment a shell hit a Russian armoured personnel carrier.

11:17 According to DW, police and prosecutors in several regions of Germany are investigating more than 140 cases of approval of Russia's war against Ukraine. Most of the cases concern the use of the letter "Z", which has become a symbol of Russian aggression.

11:05 The information about the night photos of the Moskva cruiser are tentatively confirmed.

A video of the damaged cruiser being towed also appeared.

10:49 Combat losses of Russians in Ukraine as of April 18:

10:40 In Russia, instead of white paper, they sell grey paper with the prefix "eco". The shortage of white paper in the Russian Federation, which arose due to sanctions, can last for several years.

10:25 Russian missiles damaged the railway tracks in Lviv, train traffic has already been restored.

10:10 Ports of all EU countries have closed access for Russian vessels. The EU directive bans all vessels registered under the Russian flag, including those that changed the registration of the Russian Federation after February 24.

09:57 Arsen Avakov said that the losses of the Russian army, together with private military companies, amount to 27-28 thousand killed.

The ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also said that Ukrainian troops are now taking active defence, grinding enemy troops and repulsing offensives.

09:46 The "World Second Army" disgraced with "trophy weapons". The occupiers call empty shot tubes from disposable AT4s "trophies" and also boast that they "use" them.

09:39 Colonel Ivan Grishin from Smolensk, commander of the 49th anti-aircraft missile brigade, was liquidated by Ukrainian soldiers.

09:33 Member of the British Parliament Robert Jenrick sheltered a family of refugees from Ukraine in his house.

Now 40-year-old Maria and her children live in his family's house in Nottinghamshire.

09:21 The Ukrainian military seized a Russian armoured personnel carrier in the Donbas.

09:19 The fighting began on the streets of the cities of the Luhansk region. Serhiy Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, stated this.

09:08 Russian soldiers refuse to follow criminal orders of the command: more than 100 servicemen from the 200th Separate Motorized Brigade (Pechenga) refused to further participate in the war.

This brigade has already carried out the criminal orders of the Kremlin dictator in Ukraine and suffered huge losses.

08:50 According to the head of the Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko, in the morning, the occupiers launched missile attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region. 60% of the missiles were shot down by Ukrainian air defence.

08:38 Residents of the Montenegrin city of Cetinje hold marches every day in support of the Ukrainian people and the army.

08:26 This is how fighters from the 24th King Daniel of Galicia Mechanized Brigade destroy enemy tanks in the Luhansk region.

08:21 American actor Richard Gere expressed his support for Ukraine and joined the charity organization CARE's Ukraine Crisis Fund, which helps Ukrainians.

08:12 “Thanks to the savers from Russia for doing this”. A child from Mariupol appealed to the occupiers against the backdrop of the destroyed apartment where he lived with his parents.

08:07 Residents of the Luhansk region are urged to evacuate without undue delay.

“Next week might be tough. This week may be the last when we still have a chance to save you,” emphasizes the head of the Regional State Administration, Serhiy Haidai.

07:56 Ukrainian defenders for the 16th time defeated the positions of the Russian military in Chernobaivka, Kherson region. The Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to deliver an accurate strike and destroy the repaired warehouses with rocket ammunition of the occupiers despite the low cloudiness and heavy rain.

This was reported by Oleksei Arestovich, the advisor to the Head of the President's Office.

07:54 Aleksey Poltoranin, a propagandist for the Russian Federation and a journalist for Izvestia, explicitly said to viewers that Russian aircraft had been destroying residential buildings in Mariupol.

07:45 If we consider the beginning of the Russian war against Ukraine since the attempt to capture the Tuzla Spit in 2003, we can make a forecast according to which the Ukrainian state will be able to return the occupied Crimea and Donbas. This was stated by a senior researcher at the Centre for Security Policy in Washington, Andrei Illarionov.

07:41 The second phase of the war has officially begun, said Oleksiy Arestovych. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are fully prepared for it.

"We will not wait for them to move, we have already begun to move. We carry out active defence,” said the Advisor to the President's Office.

07:37 The occupiers even abandoned their shoes fleeing from the Ukrainian soldiers.

07:34 The Armed Forces of Ukraine showed the damaged Russian T-72 tank near Rubizhne.

22:55 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published a video digest of the fifty-third day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian invaders.