The situation at the front
According to the evening report of the Ukrainian General Staff, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Maryinka are at the epicenter of hostilities. The Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed more than 40 attacks in the following areas:
– Limansky – in the areas of the village of Nevskoye and Serebryansky forestry;
– Bakhmutsky – near Bogdanovka and Ivanovsky. The assault on Bakhmut continues;
– Avdeevsky and Maryinsky – in the districts of Novokalinovo, Avdeevka and Maryinka.
In the Zaporozhye and Kherson directions, Russian forces are strengthening defensive lines, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine notes. There are no significant changes in the Volynsky, Polessky, Seversky, Slobozhansky, Kupyansky and Shakhtyorsky directions.
According to the pro-Russian War Gonzo project, in the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces, after massive artillery and air strikes, attacked in the Gulyaipole area from Dorozhnyanka and managed to advance along the highway in the direction of the city. Under shelling are the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kamenskoye, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye, Charovny and Olgovskoye, the authors of the project say.
On the Donetsk front, the Armed Forces of Ukraine counterattacked in the Pobeda area south of Maryinka and managed to recapture the previously lost positions. Russian troops, supported by artillery, conducted assault operations in the western part of Maryinka, on the outskirts of the city of Krasnogorovka and near Pervomaisky, the project writes.
To the south-west of Bakhmut, the Wagner PMC, supported by artillery, again conducted offensive operations in the direction of Ivanovsky, but according to War Gonzo, there was no progress in this direction.
In the Lugansk direction, the RF Armed Forces tried to advance from the direction of Shipilovka in the Serebryansky forest area and near Torsky. They attacked with artillery support in the area of Terna, Nevsky and Makeevka, but without success.
Analyst Rob Lee posts on his Twitter a video of the storming of the Russian trench by the 5th Air Assault Brigade of Ukraine. A Ukrainian tank fires at a trench at close range, after which the soldiers try to leave the trench, and an M113 armored personnel carrier fires at them from a machine gun.
shelling
Four residents of the Yasinovatsky district of the Donetsk region were killed as a result of Russian shelling on April 4. As the head of the Regional Military Administration (OVA) of the region, Pavel Kirilenko, said in his Telegram channel, three people died in the village of Lastochkino and one person in the village of Krasnogorovka. 11 people were injured.
In the area of the Kramatorsk urban community, a spillway lock was partially destroyed , as a result, three villages were in the flood zone.
The Telegram channel “Overheard Bryansk” published a photo with the consequences of an attack by drones that dropped explosive devices on the buildings of the military registration and enlistment office and the police department in the Sevsky district. Local residents report in the comments that they heard two explosions: the first around 20:40, the second at 22:30.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired mortars at the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, Belgorod Region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said . There were no casualties. Private houses and cars were damaged.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine for the first time published a video of an artillery strike on the territory of Russia. Ukrainian artillery shelled the positions of the Russian army near the village of Tsapovka, Belgorod region. The troops of the Russian Federation are located in a forest belt near a farm, 1.3 km from the border with Ukraine. Their positions were discovered by Ukrainian scouts from the 4th Kharkiv border detachment.
According to BILD military observer Yulian Röpke, this is the first time that the Ukrainian military themselves published a video with artillery shelling of Russian territory. The expert calls the strike a preventive one and suggests that the Russian army planned to attack from these positions in the direction of Kharkov.
Arms supply and military training
The Ukrainian military is preparing to start training on M1 Abrams tanks soon, CNN reports . According to the publication, citing a representative of the Pentagon, 31 tanks are planned to be transferred to Ukraine in total. The official did not announce specific dates for the training, but noted that this would happen "relatively soon."
Poland is handing over four more MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, President Andrzej Duda said .
The Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Sergei Naev, demonstrated the American AN / TWQ-1 Avenger anti-aircraft missile system with Stinger missiles. The complexes are deployed in the Kiev direction. The video was published by the Military Observer channel.
The delivery of the six Leopard 2 tanks promised by Spain has been delayed, Reuters writes . According to the publication, citing Defense Minister Margarita Robles, the tanks have not been used since the 90s, so they need maintenance, combat readiness checks and re-equipment. Therefore, they will be able to send them to Ukraine only in the second half of April.
In the Bryansk region, a light aircraft crashed. FSB claims he is Ukrainian
In the Bryansk region, a light aircraft crashed . According to the regional border department of the FSB, the plane is Ukrainian.
“For unknown reasons, the plane crashed near the village of Butovsk, Bryansk region. A pilot (citizen of Ukraine) who tried to escape to Ukrainian territory was detained by a border patrol," the report said,citing RIA Novosti.
Baza and Mash have released a video of an interrogation of a man who is said to be the plane's pilot. The person in the video introduced himself as Alexander Morozov and said that he worked as a civilian pilot and had not flown since the beginning of the war. He did not have any documents with him. According to the detainee, he was carrying out a task for 50,000 hryvnias, which consisted in following another light aircraft at a height of 50 meters and, at the command of the lead pilot, take a photo.
The purpose of the mission, according to the pilot, was to photograph the area and check the operation of Ukrainian air defense. Therefore, he said, he had a bulletproof vest and a machine gun with him. After the fall due to damage to the propeller of the plane, Morozov hid the weapon so that he would not be shot by the fighters of the Ukrainian territorial defense at the border.
The detainee stated that he did not know that he had entered Russian airspace. He claims that he was supposed to fly to the south of Ukraine.
British military intelligence: Russia is looking for investors to continue the war
Russia is looking for investors among "friendly" countries to cover the public debt, according to British military intelligence. According to the British department, this is how the Kremlin hopes to close the growing budget deficit by selling debt obligations to other countries in foreign currency. Probably, Russian officials hope in this way to ensure the stability of the budget with the expectation of a long war against Ukraine. However, there are doubts that they will be able to attract "allies" to their plan, according to the British Ministry of Defense.
About the main events of the war on April 4 – in the previous report: “The flag of the Russian Federation on the ruins of the Bakhmut City Council, the United States is waiting for the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Shoigu is “destroying” the Paladin self-propelled guns that did not arrive. What's going on at the front .