Kherson

Russian troops shelled residential areas in the Kherson region, damaging houses, a medical facility, a school, a kindergarten, cars and a gas pipeline, injuring 3 people, including a child.

A russian airstrike on the village of Kozatske in Kherson region destroyed the entrance of a 5-storey building and caused a fire in a residential building, with no civilian casualties.

The defense forces repelled four attacks near Orikhivske, three near Staromayorsk and one near Robotyno, and the enemy continues to try to force the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of their positions in the south.

Russia will intensify its shelling of Ukraine to maximize the destruction of critical energy infrastructure.

According to Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Ilya Yevlash, the most vulnerable to enemy attacks are Kharkiv, Odesa, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Dnipro regions, which can be protected by more air defense systems.

The Russian military shelled 21 settlements in the Kherson region, wounding one person and damaging infrastructure.

Russian troops shelled Kherson and the region at night, resulting in hits and ambulance calls.

Ukraine's Armed Forces repelled over 50 attacks by Russian-terrorist forces at the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Lyman directions, 91 combat engagements were registered over the day, with the enemy launching 14 missile and 48 air strikes.

On April 19, Russian shelling in the Kherson region killed one person and damaged residential buildings, critical infrastructure and a gas pipeline.

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Ukraine has planted more than 2 million hectares of spring grains and legumes, including corn, barley, wheat, peas, and oats.

In Kharkiv region, Ukrainian law enforcement officers neutralized a russian agent group that was trying to smuggle classified documents from a local strategic plant to russia. The detainees were notified of suspicion of treason and face life imprisonment.

At night, Russians massively shelled residential areas of Kherson, damaging buildings and structures, resulting in three civilians sustaining explosive wounds and injuries.

Due to significant damage to energy facilities and a drop in temperatures, restrictions were imposed on industry to meet consumer needs using electricity generated domestically, imports, and emergency aid from neighboring countries.

Another pro-Russian political party, the Social Patriotic Assembly of Slavs (SPAS), has been banned in Ukraine. This decision was made by the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal in Lviv.

In Kherson region, Russian troops shelled residential areas, damaging 5 multi-storey buildings, 8 private houses, a medical facility, an administrative building, a heating main and a gas pipeline, injuring 3 people.

Ukrainian defenders fought 71 combat engagements, repelling most of the Russian attacks in the Bakhmut sector, where the enemy stormed Ukrainian positions 17 times.

Two teenagers deprived of parental care have been safely returned from the Russian occupation to the territory controlled by Ukraine and are receiving the necessary assistance.

Due to Russian attacks and cold weather, Ukraine is facing electricity shortages, which have resulted in consumption restrictions for business and industry from 6 to 10 pm, with the exception of critical infrastructure and defense enterprises, while households in Kharkiv region continue to experience power outages.

At night, Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed two enemy Shahed-136/131 drones in Poltava region.

All 13 Shahed-131/136 drones launched by Russia to attack Ukraine at night were destroyed by Ukrainian air defense forces.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops shelled residential areas in Kherson region, damaging buildings and a car, injuring 16 people, and Ukrainian air defense destroyed a Russian drone.

Over the past day, 87 combat engagements took place, during which russia launched 4 missile strikes, 57 air strikes and 89 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems at Ukrainian positions and localities.

As a result of a Russian airstrike on Beryslav, Kherson region, a 67-year-old local resident suffered a concussion and an administrative building was damaged.

The courts of Kherson and Odesa regions ruled to stop the misuse of more than 190 hectares of land worth UAH 41 million belonging to educational institutions, which, in violation of the law, were used for commercial purposes instead of educational ones.

russians involved minors, including children taken from the occupied Ukrainian territories, in the production of Iranian kamikaze drones in Tatarstan.

A 29-year-old Russian contract soldier who shot and killed a local resident during the battle for Kyiv will be sentenced to 12 years in prison.

In the south of Ukraine, the military repelled nine russian assaults and continued counter-battery combat. Defense forces eliminated 104 occupants and 9 units of russian military equipment.

Architects Viktor Golubev and Dmytro Reifschneider won an architectural competition in Lviv to create a memorial complex for the war graves of the Heroes of Ukraine. The conceptual design includes a burial area, a memorial park, a museum, a monument to an unknown soldier, a chapel, and a columbarium.

Due to the deteriorating weather conditions and hostilities in Ukraine, 17 settlements were cut off from electricity, and power companies restored power supply to 51,000 consumers.

Traffic on the highway near Dzhankoy in Crimea is partially blocked from the city to the village of Peremozhne due to reports of explosions and a fire at a military airfield.