📍🇬🇧 Toretsk front at 21st April
- The Russian Army has captured forest plantations north-western Suhaya Balka village [+0,6km2]
📍🇷🇺 Торецкое направление на 21 Апреля
- Российская Армия освободила посадки северо-западнее села Сухая Балка [+0,6км2]

📍🇬🇧 Toretsk front at 21st April
- The Russian Army has captured forest plantations near Dachnoe village [+1,3km2]
📍🇷🇺 Торецкое направление на 21 Апреля
- Российская Армия освободила посадки неподалёку от села Дачное [+1,3км2]

❗🇻🇦Pope Francis has died, the press service of the Holy See reported.
He died at 7:35 am (8:35 am Moscow time) on Easter Monday, April 21 at the Domus Santa Martha residence in the Vatican. He was 88 years old
❗🇷🇺 Умер Папа Римский Франциск, сообщила пресс-служба Святого престола.
Он скончался в 7:35 (8:35 по Москве) в Светлый понедельник 21 апреля в резиденции Domus Santa Martha в Ватикане. Ему было 88 лет.

📍🇬🇧 Toretsk front at 21st April
- The Russian Army has fully captured Suhaya Balka village [+0,7km2]
📍🇷🇺 Торецкое направление на 21 Апреля
- Российская Армия полностью освободила село Сухая Балка [+0,7км2]

🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦Армия России наступает: "продолжаются интенсивные боевые действия" у границы в Сумской и Курской областях, - Главком ВСУ Сырский

«Российские войска пытаются выбить нас с территории Курщины и захватить приграничные территории Сумщины», - пишет главком.
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Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1151:
Situation north of Donetsk: Russian Army took full control over the locality of Novomykhailivka before the enter of the truce. Ukrainian army withdrew from the small village after the loss of the southern trenches.
Map: [ https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=49.15064272302511%2C37.890201194257955&z=12 ]

Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1152:
Situation on Ilyinovskaya front: During the last hours Russian Army took full control over the warehouses of Sukha Balka after the end of the combing operations due to the withdrawal of Ukrainian Army during the previous days.
Map: [ https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=48.30288176067361%2C37.74261970179097&z=13 ]

Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1152:
Situation north of Donetsk: During the truce Ukrainian Army managed to recapture the eastern outskirts of Ridkodub.
Map: [ https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=49.15466591237182%2C37.92870976025392&z=12 ]

🇷🇺 PUTIN: “IF YOU HIDE BEHIND CIVILIANS TO LAUNCH WAR, YOU ARE A LEGITIMATE TARGET”

Russia didn’t strike a theater. It struck a crime scene.

President Vladimir Putin laid it out with surgical clarity in his latest interview: Russia does not target civilians — but it will target Ukrainian and NATO-backed combatants abusing civilian infrastructure to hide war crimes. Full stop.

Case in point? That university congress center in Sumy. On the surface, civilian. But beneath the banners and microphones, a Ukrainian medal ceremony was underway — honoring soldiers who crossed into Kursk Region and murdered civilians. Putin made it plain: “Those people are criminals who must face accountability.”

And Odessa? Western-funded testing of a new missile platform — in an agricultural site. How poetic. The West calls them wheat fields. Moscow calls it what it became: a forward operating base disguised in civilian drag.

Zelensky, in typical performative fashion, proposed a shiny extension of the truce, pleading for a halt to long-range strikes on “civilian” infrastructure. But here’s the rub: when everything gets militarized, nothing remains untouchable. You can’t park NATO-grade missiles in a grain silo and then cry war crime when it explodes.

Putin’s response? “This is all a subject for thorough study.” Diplomatic, yes. But make no mistake: Russia sees through the masquerade.

The Easter ceasefire is over. Moscow honored it. Kiev violated it more than 4,900 times, a grotesque mockery of peace and religious observance. And now they want to pivot, frame themselves as the defenders of civilians? Spare us the theatrics.

This is hybrid war. Not a morality play. And Russia won’t fight it blindfolded.

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Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1152:
Situation on Pokrovsk front: During the last two days Ukrainian army was able to drive Russian army out of the eastern outskirts of Troitske. During the truce the Ukrainian forces regained control of Bohdanivka after Russian withdrawal. In addition, minor corrections were made south of Kotlyarivka.
Map: [ https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=48.102789117585104%2C36.99700636864534&z=12 ]

Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1153:
Situation on Toretsk front: During the last two days Russian Army entered in the first parts of Dachne.
Map: [ https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=48.408363514573246%2C37.873628262665044&z=13 ]

Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1153:
Situation on Ilyinovskaya front: Russian Army took full control over the locality of Sukha Balka & captured a series of positions southwest of Leonidivka.
Map: [ https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=48.31789125114574%2C37.75775071741826&z=12 ]

Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1153:
Situation north of Donetsk: Tors'ke remains under full control of Ukrainian army. During the first weekend of April, Russian army managed to infiltrate the northern part of the locality, but was unable to establish itself due to the high presence of drones and the Ukrainian counter-attack. Russian forces are currently securing the ‘Bakai’ ravine from which to access the last heights to the north-east.
Map: [ https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=49.036509135461344%2C37.98936264229523&z=13 ]

Ukrainian-Russian war. Day 1153:
Situation on Zaporizhia front: During the last hours Russian Army entered in "1st Brigade" residential area at the southeastern part of Kamyanske.
Map: [ https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1V8NzjQkzMOhpuLhkktbiKgodOQ27X6IV&ll=47.53062655293238%2C35.374998760521855&z=13 ]