Sumy region remains the most active area where the enemy continues to use its subversive and reconnaissance groups.
Passenger and vehicle traffic at the border has increased sharply over the past five days due to the Easter holidays, with a clear predominance of Ukrainian citizens entering Ukraine, accounting for 80-85% of total traffic.
Most attempts to illegally cross the border are recorded on the border with Romania and Moldova, and since the beginning of martial law, more than 30 violators have died trying to illegally cross the border.
Currently, all checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border are unblocked for truck traffic, with about 200 trucks waiting in line at the Yahodyn checkpoint, which, given its capacity, will be cleared within a day.
Russian troops fired eleven times at the border of Chernihiv region with various types of weapons, recording 109 explosions.
Russian troops shelled 4 settlements in Sumy region, 27 explosions from artillery, mortars and mines were recorded.
More than 23,000 law enforcement officers will be deployed to ensure law and order during Easter celebrations across Ukraine, and more than 10 million believers are expected to attend services in 13,000 places of worship.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked and recognized specific Ukrainian border guards by name for their bravery and efficiency in protecting Ukraine's borders, announced the expansion of the State Border Guard Service due to their professionalism, and awarded border guards with state awards.
The Ukrainian-Polish border has been unblocked after a plan of understanding presented by the Ukrainian government yielded results, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
Ukraine is creating a third combat brigade, the Gart, of the State Border Guard Service to strengthen defense forces on its eastern borders, in addition to the existing Steel Frontier and Revenge brigades.
Russia keeps several tens of thousands of troops near the border with Ukraine in Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions, but these forces are not enough for a large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
More than 30 people died during the attempts to illegally cross the border, most of them drowned in a mountain river, with some deaths also occurring in remote mountainous areas.
About 80 trucks a day pass through the only blocked checkpoint at Hrebenne-Rava-Ruska on the Ukrainian-Polish border.
More than 110,000 people crossed the Ukrainian border the day before, a sharp increase in the number of people is associated with the weekend and the upcoming Easter holidays.
Border guards have found the bodies of two men who drowned while attempting to illegally cross the border in the Tisa River, bringing the death toll to 24 since the start of the Russian invasion.
Russian occupants continue shelling the border areas of Chernihiv and Sumy regions - 31 attacks and 157 explosions from various types of weapons were recorded over the past day.
The seven men paid 6-9 thousand euros to a local resident to smuggle them across the Ukrainian-Romanian border in an old UAZ car, but border guards intercepted and detained them.
A scandal erupted in the Lviv region when an animal rights activist from the NGO Animal Rescue. Kharkiv" was detained by employees of the Territorial Center for Animal Acquisition while transporting animals, which led to a conflict with the center's employees.
Zelenskiy holds a security meeting in Slavutych to discuss the city's security, development prospects, civilian infrastructure, jobs, protection of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, and border security.
Two brothers who had been living in Germany for several years decided to return to Ukraine illegally due to lack of work, crossing the Western Bug River in wetsuits.
Currently, Russia has no military units on the territory of Belarus, but the situation on the border with Belarus remains threatening, as the country continues to support Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.
On weekdays, the volume of passenger traffic is 80-85 thousand people, and on weekends this figure increases to about 95 thousand.
The State Border Guard Service does not report a sharp increase in illegal border crossing attempts despite the new mobilization law, but such attempts continue on a daily basis, especially on the borders with Moldova and Romania.
Polish farmers are currently blocking only the Hrebenne-Rava-Ruska checkpoint, through which only 70 trucks were allowed to cross into Poland over the past day, while 1300 trucks were allowed through the Yahodyn-Dorogusk checkpoint over the past day.
Russian troops fired 9 times at the border of Chernihiv region, causing 46 explosions from artillery, mortars, rockets and explosives dropped from UAVs.
Ukrainian border guards engaged a Russian subversive group of more than a dozen saboteurs in Sumy region, forcing the enemy to retreat.
Russian troops shelled the border of Chernihiv region with mortars and cannon artillery, 24 explosions were recorded.
Around 150 trucks are waiting in Poland to enter Ukraine through the blocked Rava-Ruska border crossing, while some traffic is still allowed in both directions.
A Ukrainian tried to illegally enter Moldova by swimming across the Dniester on an air mattress, but was rescued by border guards.
Polish farmers restrict truck traffic at the Hrebenne-Rava-Ruska border crossing, allowing only a few vehicles per hour in both directions, with about 250 trucks queuing on the Polish side.
