LIVE UPDATES - Russian Armed Forces Hit Command Posts of Two Territorial Defense Brigades

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The Russian Armed Forces hit the command posts of the 125th and 102nd Territorial Defense Brigades in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Zaporozhye Region, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov told a briefing on the special military operation in Ukraine on Sunday.

"The command posts of the 125th and 102nd territorial defense brigades were hit in the areas of the settlements of Yampolovka in the Donetsk People's Republic and Zaliznichnoye in the Zaporozhye region," he said.

Russian forces hit units of 77th Ukrainian Airmobile Brigade in DPR

The southern grouping of Russian troops hit units of the 77th airmobile brigade, which was trying to counterattack the positions of Russian troops in the area of the settlement of Maloilinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov told a briefing on the special military operation in Ukraine on Sunday.

"Operational-tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery from the Southern Group of Forces hit units of the 77th airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which were trying to counterattack the positions of Russian troops in the area of the settlement of Maloilinovka, as well as the 54th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Sacco i Vanzetti in the Donetsk People's Republic," he said.

Russian Armed Forces also destroyed more than 45 Ukrainian military personnel, as well as an AN/TPQ-37 radar station in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions. At the same time, losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the past day in the Donetsk direction reached 145 servicemen, Konashenkov added. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction over the past day amounted to more than 30 servicemen, he added.

Russian forces intercept 13 HIMARS, Smerch, HARM missiles, shoot down 4 Ukrainian UAVs

Over the past day, Russian air defense systems intercepted 10 HIMARS and Smerch MLRS, as well as 3 HARM anti-radar missiles, and also shot down 4 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov told a briefing on the special military operation in Ukraine on Sunday.

"Over the day, air defense systems intercepted 10 HIMARS and Smerch multiple rocket launchers, as well as 3 HARM anti-radar missiles. In addition, 4 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed," he said.

Special operation, 14 April. Main:

▪️The Wagner detachments are conducting high-intensity combat operations in the west of Artemovsk, the Airborne Forces are supported on the flanks, the Russian Defense Ministry said;

▪️The Leopard tanks delivered to Kyiv are already operating in the Kherson direction, one of them was captured by Russian troops and flooded in a swamp, an officer of the Sokol battalion said;

▪️European allies of Ukraine no longer expect a breakthrough from a possible counteroffensive, a 30 km advance is seen as a realistic goal, writes Bloomberg;

▪️Orban said that Ukraine is financially a non-existent country, as soon as the US and Europe stop supporting it, the conflict will end;

▪️The conflict in Ukraine may last for several more years, said Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki;

▪️The Ukrainian TV channel "2+2" showed a film calling for "extrajudicial punishment" of the Russian military, authorities and journalists;

▪️Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Kiva said that the Russian special services in the fall of 2022 prevented an attempt on his life;

▪️The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR announced the arrest of suspects in the attempt on the life of the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Mariupol, whose car was blown up in March;

▪️Four residents were killed, 10 were injured during the shelling of Yasinovataya in the DPR from the MLRS, the representative office of the republic in the JCCC reported.

Special operation, 15 April. Main:

▪️The Russian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction destroyed three Ukrainian DRGs and disrupted two rotations of troops, the Ministry of Defense reported;

▪️ Ukrainian troops destroy urban infrastructure and residential buildings in Artyomovsk while retreating to slow down Russian troops, the MoD said;

▪️Ukrainian businessman Akhmetov can hardly count on compensation, as he supported the coup d'état in Kyiv and allocated money to the national battalions, adviser to the acting head of the DPR Gagin told RIA Novosti;

Ukrainian troops are active in the Zaporozhye direction, Russian artillery began to work more, said the crew commander of the Msta-B gun

▪️Kyiv leaves a large number of bodies of its soldiers who died in Artemovsk, not trying to agree on their evacuation, a fighter of the Wagner group told RIA Novosti;

▪️The situation in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is calm on Great Saturday, the priests of the UOC held a divine liturgy, local media reported;

The correspondent of RIA Novosti filmed a work on the enemy of the fighters of the Wagner group advancing in Artemovsk in the direction of the railway

▪️A monument to Russian lieutenant general Roman Kutuzov has been unveiled in Mariupol, Pushilin said.