Security Service of Ukraine

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) organized drone strikes on a military airfield in Kushchevsk and two oil refineries in Russia's Krasnodar region, causing fires and damage to key facilities.

The informant was sentenced to 11 years in prison for attempting to provide Russian military intelligence with information about the firing positions of Ukrainian artillery in Mykolaiv region, for the purpose of launching targeted missile and drone strikes.

The new team of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is facing a powerful information attack and potential dirty media provocations, probably organized by former food suppliers to the Armed Forces, who are seeking to restore their monopoly on the food supply market of the Armed Forces.

Due to the threat of a Russian attack, Kyiv has launched an urgent evacuation of two hospitals, including a children's hospital, following false claims about the presence of military personnel in these medical facilities, which were spread online as a potential pretext for an enemy attack.

In Poltava, Odesa, and Zhytomyr regions, law enforcement officers detained "black gunsmiths" who were trying to sell trophy grenade launchers, explosives, and other weapons illegally taken from the sites of former hostilities to criminals.

Law enforcers are conducting searches at Kyivteploenergo over alleged irregularities in the procurement of spare parts important to the company's operations.

The SBU prevented Russia's attempts to strike at Ukrainian positions near Kharkiv by detaining a Russian intelligence agent group that was preparing a series of air strikes using guided bombs with the help of two accomplices from Kharkiv who were recording the locations of Ukrainian troops.

A 42-year-old resident of Vovchansk was sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying for Russia behind the defensive borders of Kharkiv, collecting information on the location and movement of Ukrainian troops.

Over the past 24 hours, on April 24, russian troops conducted 1,889 attacks in the Donetsk region, injuring at least four civilians and damaging numerous civilian objects, including residential buildings, utility companies and social facilities.

Due to Western sanctions, russia expects its liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to stagnate at around 38. 6 million tons annually for about four years.

A former conscript was detained for providing coordinates for enemy missile attacks on civilian infrastructure in the Kharkiv region.

The abbot of the Sviatohirsk Lavra, who disseminated information about the locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was taken into custody and faces up to 8 years in prison.

Ukrainian military intelligence drones attacked and partially destroyed an oxygen station and disabled two oxygen units at the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant in Russia.

On April 23, russian troops attacked 8 settlements in Donetsk region using bombs, Uragan and Smerch MLRS, and artillery, damaging 27 civilian objects, including 21 residential buildings, and injuring several civilians.

Metropolitan Arseniy, the abbot of the Sviatohirsk Lavra, was served a notice of suspicion by the SBU for disclosing to the Russian occupiers the location of Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoints in Donetsk region during the liturgy.

A former senior official of the Ministry of Justice who had been granted russian citizenship was dismissed in 2021 after the SBU exposed her, and the court upheld her dismissal despite an appeal.

SBU drones strike two Russian oil depots in the Smolensk region, destroying 26,000 cubic meters of fuel and causing large fires.

Five militants who stormed Ukrainian positions in Maryinka and Vuhledar have been served suspicion notices by the Security Service of Ukraine and face life imprisonment.

A 29-year-old Ukrainian citizen was detained in Luhansk on suspicion of involvement in the preparation of an assassination attempt on former SBU officer Vasyl Prozorov, who defected to Russia.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has served suspicion notices to Eduard Atakishchev, deputy director of the Russian-seized Zaporizhzhia NPP, and his subordinate Andriy Horbunov for disconnecting the plant from the Ukrainian power grid and attempting to integrate it into the Russian power grid.

The Security Service of Ukraine detained a local resident in Kharkiv who tried to direct Russian air bombs at the base of the Special Forces of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine by passing coordinates to the enemy.

Starting from April 23, Ukrainian consulates will temporarily suspend all consular services to Ukrainian men of military age, except for the preparation of documents for returning to Ukraine.

The Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv has extended the detention of businessman Ihor Kolomoisky until June 2, 2024, with the possibility of bail in the amount of UAH 1. 96 billion.

Oil refining in russia has fallen to its lowest level in 11 months due to Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries and large-scale spring flooding in several regions.

A traitor who worked for Russian military intelligence is sentenced to 15 years in prison for collecting data on the Prydniprovska TPP and directing Russian missile strikes against Ukraine's military and energy infrastructure.

President Zelenskyy presented the highest state awards, including the Order of the Golden Star and the Cross of Military Merit, to Ukrainian servicemen and families of fallen heroes for their courage and defense of Ukraine.

The rector of a UOC (MP) church in Khmelnytsky region was detained for praising Putin and spreading Russian fakes during services.

The SBU detained a Russian agent who arrived in Ukraine on the eve of the full-scale invasion under the guise of a salesman and in 2023 began surveillance to identify Ukrainian air defense systems and radars to facilitate Russian air strikes.

The Security Service of Ukraine neutralized a Russian FSB agent group in Kherson region, detaining a former MP and his accomplice who were adjusting missile and drone strikes in the region.

The SBU Military Counterintelligence Department destroyed 11 tanks, 24 armored personnel carriers, 36 artillery systems, 4 air defense systems, 21 military vehicles, 35 firing positions and shelters, 4 ammunition and fuel depots, and a long-range radar in Russia using attack drones in coordination with Ukrainian artillery.