As of today, there are no missile launchers in the Black and Azov Seas, only patrol boats that survey the area, according to a spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces.
In the temporarily occupied Berdiansk, the russian occupation authorities are forcing schoolchildren to clean up extracurricular areas for almost a week as part of a Soviet-style cleanup, engaging them in meaningless work and propaganda photo shoots.
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.
On the night of April 19, 2024, Russian troops launched a combined attack using 36 missiles and drones, but Ukrainian air defense systems successfully destroyed 29 of them, including for the first time a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber with X-22 cruise missiles.
In the temporarily occupied territories, russians are still unable to complete the formation of their occupation administrations due to the lack of people willing to cooperate with russia, as most residents have left the region or refuse to cooperate with the enemy.
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.
At present, there are no Russian warships on duty in the Black and Azov Seas, but this does not reduce the threat of missile attacks on Ukrainian territory.
hosea is holding the international food security system hostage by obstructing freedom of navigation and destabilizing other countries, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Stefan Dimitrov said.
The Second Black Sea Security Conference, co-hosted by Ukraine and Bulgaria on April 15 in Sofia, aims to develop effective strategies to respond to existing challenges and ensure sustainable development for all peace-loving states in the region in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Russian troops are actively mining agricultural land in the temporarily occupied Kherson region, endangering civilians and hampering farming activities.
Russian occupants filmed the loading of Ukrainian grain onto ships in the port of Mariupol, and at least three dry cargo ships were identified, as well as several grain trading companies involved in the export of stolen grain from Ukrainian territories.
On the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, the invaders are actively using criminal schemes to take away land from its rightful owners, especially targeting plots in the coastal areas of the Azov Sea.
The Russians have about 7 A-50 aircraft left, which they are currently modernizing, said a spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At night, a pipeline used by the Russians to pump oil from a local oil depot to tankers was blown up in the port area of the Azov Sea Port. Tanker loading of oil products has been suspended for an indefinite period.
Enemy tactical aviation activity has been spotted in the Sea of Azov, the Ukrainian Air Force reports.
Over the last day in the Orikhiv and Kherson sectors, the Joint Forces eliminated 111 occupants and destroyed 40 pieces of weapons and military equipment, including tanks, armored vehicles, artillery systems and drones.
More than 10 cases of cholera have been detected in various schools in Mariupol, raising concerns about a potential epidemic.
The Ukrainian military held their positions and killed more than a hundred russians during eight attempts of russian assaults in several directions in the Joint Forces Operation area, and destroyed 57 units of russian weapons and military equipment.
russian troops suffer significant losses in armored vehicles in the Kherson sector and are forced to redeploy combat vehicles from the occupied Crimea to replenish their losses after Ukrainian drone strikes.
Russia is trying to terrorize Zmeinyi Island in the Black Sea to disrupt the functioning of the navigation corridor, as the recommended sea routes run along the island.
putin has ordered the construction of resorts on the Azov Sea coast in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.
In the Orikhivsk sector, Russian troops attacked Ukrainian positions eight times over the past day, but suffered losses and retreated to their original positions.
Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled four Russian attacks in the Orikhiv sector near Robotyne and Staromayorske.
Three high-ranking Russian officials were notified of suspicion for assisting in the transportation of Russian military personnel and equipment to the frontline by sea.
Ukrainian troops repelled three attacks by Russian occupiers on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region, inflicting significant losses on the enemy - about 3 dozen killed and wounded.
Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has sunk or disabled one-third of all russian warships in the Black Sea, and its ultimate goal is to completely eliminate russian warships in the Azov and Black Sea regions.
Russian troops occasionally conduct maneuvers with coastal missile systems and tactical missile systems as they look for other means to launch precision missile strikes in response to growing threats, while the Russian Navy remains largely inactive in the Black and Azov Seas.
Russian troops conducted 4 assaults in the Orikhiv direction, Ukrainian troops are holding their positions, inflicting losses of 125 occupants, 37 units of weapons and military equipment on the Orikhivske and Kherson directions.
Ukrainian troops successfully hit the large russian landing ships Yamal and Azov, a communications hub and several facilities of the russian Black Sea Fleet in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, as well as an oil depot in occupied Crimea.
Ukraine's armed forces repelled 12 Russian attacks in the south, while Russian forces applied pressure using numerous attack drones and fired at least 14 bombs and missiles in Zaporizhzhia.