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Russia – Ukraine war updates as of April 18, 2025

Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of April 18, 2024.

1,150 day of the russian large-scale invasion and 4,063 day of the russia’s war against Ukraine begins.

Operational information as of 8:00 a.m. April 18, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion.

The 1150th day of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.

In total, 143 combat clashes were recorded over the past day.

According to updated information, yesterday the enemy launched two missile and 94 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, used four missiles and dropped 151 KAB, and engaged 3029 kamikaze drones for destruction. The enemy also carried out 6507 artillery attacks, including 143 from multiple launch rocket systems.

The enemy carried out air strikes, in particular, in the areas of the settlements of Turya, Krasnopillya, Myropylske, Osoyivka and Uhroidy in the Sumy region; Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region; Kostyantynivka, Rusyn Yar, Popiv Yar, Malynivka, Oleksandrograd, Voskresenka, Novopil in the Donetsk region; Hulyaipole, Stepove, Lukyanivske, Kamyanske of Zaporizhia region and Kherson.

Over the past day, aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces struck ten areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, a control point, an air defense system, two missile troops and artillery systems and a UAV control point of the Russian invaders.

In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy tried once in vain to advance in the Vovchansk area.

In the Kupyansk direction, four attacks by the invaders took place yesterday. The defense forces repelled the enemy’s assault actions near Petropavlivka, Synkivka and Zagryzove.

In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 20 times. It tried to advance near the settlements of Novovodyan, Nadiya, Novye, Novomykhaylivka, Yampolivka and towards Hrekivka and Hryhorivka.

In the Siversky direction, our troops repelled two enemy attacks near the settlement of Bilogorivka and in the direction of Verkhnyokamyanske.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy launched eight attacks on the positions of our troops in the areas of Chasiv Yar, Kurdyumivka and towards Stupochky.

In the past day, in the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked Ukrainian units near Toretsk, Ozaryanivka and Druzhba 11 times.

In the Pokrovsky direction, over the past day, our defenders stopped 64 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Sukha Balka, Stara Mykolaivka, Zelene Pole, Vodyane Druge, Yelizavetivka, Novotoretske, Promyn, Lysivka, Kotlyne, Uspenivka, Preobrazhenka and Andriivka.

In the Novopavlivsky direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled nine attacks by the invaders in the areas of Konstantinopol, Rozlyv and Pryvilne.

In the Orikhiv direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled an attack in the area of Malaya Tokmachka.

In the Kursk region, 21 combat clashes took place over the past day, and the enemy also launched 18 air strikes, using 25 anti-aircraft missiles, and carried out 368 attacks, eight of which were from MLRS.

In the Hulyaipil and Prydniprovsk directions, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected.

Our soldiers inflict significant losses on the occupation forces in manpower and equipment and actively undermine the enemy’s offensive potential in the rear.

In total, the losses of the Russian invaders over the past day amounted to 1,530 soldiers.

Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized eight tanks, 40 armored combat vehicles, 88 artillery systems, one MLRS, an air defense system, 140 operational-tactical-level UAVs, 312 vehicles, and 51 special equipment of the occupiers.

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