🇺🇦 shot down 13 #Shahed drones and 4 S-300 missiles.
🇷🇺 continues to suffer very high daily losses (1,260 personnel since yesterday) as it slowly occupies small settlements in west #Donetsk oblast: 🇷🇺 advanced 1km south of #Ocheretyne and 300m along the M4/E50 road.
🇱🇻 begins building new defensive lines along the #Latvia-Russia border, including anti-tank ditches.
🇺🇦 continues to destroy 🇷🇺 equipment in #Krynky and made small gains east of Kozachi Laheri.
Intense fighting in #Kislivka on Kypyansk axis, where 🇷🇺 introduced new forces but so far #Ukraine 🇺🇦 positions hold in spite of some 🇷🇺 minor advances.
🇷🇺 attempts to regain control of the Nestriga islet on #Dnipro but with no success.
Ukrainian grandmother Lidia #Lominovska was drained. The 97-year-old had walked for hours in search of safety after the Russians bombed her frontline village of #Ocheretyne.
Wearing a colorful headscarf around her wrinkled face, the frail but resilient Lominovska recounted her exhausting trek of some 10 kilometers (six miles) in the eastern #Donetsk region.
« À 98 ans, cette Ukrainienne a parcouru 10 km à pied pour sortir de la partie occupée d'#Ocheretyné#ocheretiny "J'ai survécu à une autre guerre, je survivrai à celle-là mais elle est pire que l'autre."Selon la police, Lidia Stepanivna marchait sans nourriture ni eau, sous les tirs, franchissant tout le front, tombant deux fois, mais elle parvint à atteindre la zone libre. »
The Russian offensive in #Ocheretyne direction is worrying. Multiple villages have fallen in a rather short timeframe.
However, the overall advances are still limited mostly to a tactical level. Russians haven't achieved an actual breakthrough, but are certainly trying to.
The public lynch of 115th Mechanized Brigade is unjustified and unfair.
Russian forces, in surprise to many, reached the edge of #Ocheretyne on April 18 and entered it two days later. The settlement, located north of Avdiivka, was supposed to be a Ukrainian strong point which would held the Russian advance for at least a few weeks.